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"2014 Calendars Are Here!"
We can hardly believe it! The Access Sacramento 2014 calendars are here. The New Year is around the corner and you can get your free calendar at Access Sacramento (limit one per person).
We have four styles to choose from including classic images from artist, Norman Rockwell. We also have beautiful images of "Celebration of African-American Art" by various artists, majestic images of America, and also lush scenes of California.
Items are limited and subject to a first come, first serve basis. Come into the Access Sacramento Main Office during our normal business hours, Monday through Friday between 9 a.m and 6 p.m. to pick up your copy.
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Orientation Class Available
Last Chance this Year!
Are you a Sacramento County resident who wants to share your thoughts, opinions, and ideas on local television or radio? Consider joining Access Sacramento! We are a free-speech forum that gets you 'access' to popular forms of media so you can do just that. We exist so that you can express yourself and share what you're passionate about on local television and radio. Did you know that as a member of Access Sacramento you get one hour of airtime each month? Did you know that members get to use most of our equipment for free? Want to know more? Come to our last orientation class of the year.
Access Sacramento's last Orientation class of 2013 meets Wednesday, Dec. 18 at 6 p.m.
The class is free and open to the public. It will last a little over an hour. It is also a mandatory step in becoming an Access Sacramento member and should be taken at your earliest convenience.
Sign up now as classes fill up fast and our next orientation class will not take place until January 2014.
The Orientation Class will give you a chance to ask questions and learn about our services and what we provide to the community and its members. We also will go over the standard classes we offer and member benefits as well as getting a tour of the facility.
The class is taught by our Executive Director, Gary Martin and occasionally by staff persons Michelle Barbaria and Elizabeth Harrison.
All classes are provided on a first come, first serve basis, so take advantage before the classes fill up. You must be a member in order to take our standard classes, but orientation is open to everyone and is the first step in becoming a member of Access Sacramento.
We hope to see you there!
For more information on class availability contact Access Sacramento's Front Desk at:
(916) 456-8600 Ext: 0.
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Access Sacramento
(located inside of the Coloma Community Center)
4623 T Street, suite A
Sacramento, Ca. 95819
Our regular office hours are Monday through Friday 9-6. Memberships must be done in person between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
We are closed on City recognized Holidays.
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Place Called Sacramento Film Festival DVDs Available for Purchase
DVDs with all 10 films from the Place Called Sacramento Film Festival are available to purchase with a credit card by calling the Access Sacramento Front Office at 916-456-8600 extension 0.
Cash or check purchases can be made by coming into the Front Office and checks can be mailed to:
Access Sacramento
4623 T Street, Suite A
Sacramento, CA 95819-4743
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"Fall Classes Scheduled" 
Our newest schedule is out and classes have been added. If you are already a member of Access Sacramento and your membership is up to date you can call and sign up over the phone using your credit card. If you are interested in becoming a member of Access Sacramento and would like to take the classes you must come and sign up in person for your membership. Orientation happens once or twice each month and is a good place to start. It is mandatory to attend one and it is free. You do not need to be a member to attend Orientation. You must be a member of Access Sacramento in order to take the other classes.
Upcoming Classes:
Orientation
Wednesday, December 18 at 6 p.m.
Tuesday, January 14 at 6 p.m.
Wednesday, January 29 at 6 p.m.
TV Studio Operation/Production
Saturday, December 7 at 9 a.m.
Saturday, February 1 at 9 a.m.
Basics of Digital Camera and Editing
Tuesday, January 7 at 6 p.m.
Wednesday, February 12 at 6 p.m.
Tuesday, March 18 at 6 p.m.
*sign up is first come, first served. Classes fill up quickly and reservations are made only with payment.
Call the Access Sacramento office M-F between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. to sign up over the phone or drop by our offices located at 4623 T Street in Sacramento, 95819. We are located inside of the Coloma Community Center.
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Stay Connected with
Access Sacaramento!
You can get information about Access Sacramento in many ways. If you're away from home or cable TV, then watch us live from our main website!
Push Watch TV 17 for The Sacramento Channel
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Follow us on Twitter
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General Information
Get the latest on programming, upcoming classes or services, and news about Access Sacramento in the community.
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Hometown TV Game of the Week
Learn what's coming up on the schedule, the latest about this week's game, and get in-game updates. Plus, if you send us a tweet during the game, your comment may appear on the air LIVE, Fridays at 7pm on Comcast and SureWest Cable Ch. 17, and AT&T U-verse Ch. 99. Replays on Saturdays at 11 a.m. and Tuesdays and 7 p.m.
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Learn about Access Sacramento in the community, information about upcoming classes, and current news and information affecting public access cable.
A Place Called Sacramento Film Festival
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Find details about this year's 10 films, production news , and the crews, directors and stars. World Premiere Sunday Oct. 6 at 1pm at The Crest Theatre in Sacramento.
LiveWire
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LiveWire is Sacramento's longest running LIVE weekly talk show and it can be seen every Wednesday at 5pm on Comcast/SureWest Cable Ch. 17 and AT&T U-Verse Ch. 99. Find out about current guests, topics and see highlights from shows.
Facebook Fan Sites
"Listen Up Sacramento!"
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Fans of Access Sacramento's twice monthly music performance show "Listen Up Sacramento!" offer info about performers, singers, and bands that have appeared on the show including new performance announcements and news from the groups.
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Community reports from our
Neighborhood News Bureaus.
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Next time you are in the office, ask to to join the Access Sacramento - SaveMart SHARES program. We will give you a plastic SHARES card. Hand the SHARES card to the checker each time you check-out at SaveMart and they will donate 3% of your total grocery bill to Access Sacramento.
This costs you nothing - the 3% comes from SaveMart as a supporter of our nonprofit organization. Once you get into the habit of remembering your SHARES card, the rest is simple. Thanks to you and SaveMart for supporting Access Sacramento.
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2013 Workshop Schedule
Click on the image above to view the Access Sacramento workshop schedule
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2013 Program Schedule
(Click on the image above to view Access Sacramento programming schedules
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Watch Access programming on Comcast OnDemand today!
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Click to listen to Access Sacramento's own locally produced radio station.
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Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman - Progressive news stories from around the world!!
Weeknights @ 6pm & 12am
http://democracynow.org/
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"Media Edge" is a video magazine series offering two hours of in-depth, thought-provoking, progressive viewpoints every week. The series features segments created by "Media Edge" producers, along with nationally distributed videos and documentaries.
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DW-TV (Watch Deutsche-Welle TV in English) Daily News from the heart of Europe. Plus Arts, Travel, and Entertainment features. Weeknights 5:30 pm & 11:30 pm on Channel 17 and on Channel 18 every other hour.
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New T-shirts Available in Office
WWe are all about storytelling. Your stories- my stories-everyone. Check out our new t-shirt design now available in the office for only $12 each.
Remember the Story is You
check them out!
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Thank you for your support.
Gary Martin, Executive Director
Access Sacramento
4623 T Street
Sacramento, CA. 95819
(916) 456-8600 #100
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Santa Claus is Coming to Town! Special One-Hour Live Wire
Wed. 5 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 11 is the Live Wire Holiday Special featuring Santa Claus and the Tiny Tots. Santa can't wait to visit the children of Sacramento County and hear what they have to say about the Holiday season.
There will also be a special story written and read by our Host, "Elf Ray" Tatar. We will also get a special greeting from "Mary Christmas" the Christmas Fairy as she shares a special poem with the children.
There will be a sing-along with Miss Becky and Miss Acacia from Tiny Tots. Our featured musical guest, Julianna Zachariou will be coming by for visit, too. Join us on Live Wire for some heart-warming holiday fun!
Tune in on Wednesday, December 11th at 5 p.m. on Access Sacramento Channel 17 to see Santa Claus and his friends on the Live Wire 2013 Holiday Special.
The special will re-air on December 25th at 5 p.m.
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LIVE on Access Sacramento: State DMV Chief on TechLeader.tv
The state's Director for the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Jean Shiomoto will discuss new licensing, identity theft and even driverless automobiles LIVE on Access Sacramento Monday, Dec. 16 at 11:30 a.m. on host John Thomas Flynn's "TechLeader.TV" program.
Shiomoto, 57, of Sacramento, was appointed as DMV Director last month by Governor Jerry Brown after she had served in variety of DMV leadership positions since 1988 including Deputy Director and Chief Financial Officer.
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TechLeader.TV's Flynn will also be joined by the DMV's top technology advisor Bernard Soriano. The program can be seen on cable TV in Sacramento County and will also be live streamed as part of TechLeader.TV's on-going commitment to providing information from the state's highest technology leaders.
The DMV's top two officials will also answer questions about the DMV's huge billion dollars budget, cyber security and issues surrounding California's large population of undocumented residents.
TechLeader.TV has aired regularly on Access Sacramento since September, 2008 and has featured the top personnel of many of the State of California's largest departments.
TechLeader.TV's interview will repeat Monday at 7:00 p.m., again Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 11 a.m. and Wednesday Dec. 18 at 3 a.m. on Comcast and SureWest Cable channel 17 and on AT&T U-Verse Channel 99. The program is also streamed from the Access Sacramento Homepage at those same times.
For more information about TechLeader.TV and for regular news briefings about technology in California visit http://techleader.tv/.
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Radio Update: Studio Remodel & LPFM Application
Studio remodel
While "The Voice" radio producers eagerly await word on Access Sacramento's application with the FCC for approval to launch a new Low-Power FM radio station in midtown, their anticipation for even quicker improvements has already come true.
Radio Coordinator Shane Carpenter has completed ordering equipment for a full-remodel of Studio Two, with additional enhancements to upgrade elements of Studio One as well.
The older of Access Sacramento's two studios, Studio Two, will receive a new audio mixer (Audioarts R55E) identical to the board used in Studio One. New speakers and computer equipment will also be installed to assist radio programmers with creating live and recorded programs for use on the cable channels and Internet.
Both Studios also will benefit from new microphone booms and windscreens.
Installation of the new equipment will mean occasional shutdowns of Studio Two during the early part of 2014, but the intention is to create only minimal disruption to the regular creation of radio programming. Besides the new audio board, the large equipment racks that hold most of the equipment will be reset to facilitate convenient use and maintenance.
Access Sacramento's radio and TV studios are closed from Dec. 22 to Jan. 5 for maintenance and inventory, so member-producers will be pre-recording programs for use during the holiday time period. That will also be the time for the audio board to be installed, with the rack elements to follow later in the month.
LPFM Application
As for the Low-Power FM radio station application, Access Sacramento is the only applicant for an open frequency at 96.5 FM. Twelve other non-profit organizations have applied for six other frequencies in the Sacramento area.
The FCC is reviewing all of the applications and after they are officially "Accepted for Filing" there will be a 30-day review and comment period before the FCC will issue permission granting a construction permit.
There are no guarantees the FCC will grant any licenses, but a congressional order in 2011 requested the FCC begin a process for allowing more community programmers in the LPFM area. Approximately 2,800 non-profit foundations, educational institutions and government agencies across the nation applied for the new licenses before the deadline Nov. 15, 2013.
For more information on becoming a radio programmer on Access Sacramento's The Voice contact the main office or Radio Coordinator Shane Carpenter at 916-456-8600 extension 0.
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Game-of-the-Week Basketball Coverage Opens with Double Dunk at CBS Holiday Classic
By Will James
Access Sacramento
Game-of-the-Week
After 10 premiere football games, The Home Town Sports Game-of-the-Week moved indoors during the weekend to begin its winter coverage of high school basketball with a pair of outstanding match-ups at the annual "Christian Brothers Girls Holiday Classic."
The twin bill tips-off with Monterey Trail battling Nevada Union in the tourney's 3rd Place game on Friday, December 13th, at 7 p.m. on Comcast/SureWest Cable Channel 17.
The second game to air is the championship contest featuring the centerpiece of the tourney, the nationally-renowned St. Mary's of Stockton squaring-off with McClatchy at approximately 8:30 p.m.
This coming weekend, Game of the Week coverage moves on Dec. 14 to Carmichael to televise a pair of choice match-ups in the annual Father Barry Holiday Classic at Jesuit High School. One game each will be presented on Tuesday, December 17th and December 20th at 7 p.m.
On Saturday, December 21st, the Game of the Week crew's coverage of 2013 concludes with another deluxe boys basketball double-header, this time from the St. Hope Elite Hoop Classic at Sacramento High School. Those two games will air, one game on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24 at 7 p.m. and the next on Friday, Dec. 27 at 7p.m.
The crew will take the balance of 2013 off, before resuming coverage the first week of January, 2014.
All three of these tournaments are loaded with top notch local talent, plus out of town, and out of state powerhouse ball clubs that are sure to please our viewers.
Dec. 13 Schedule
7:00 p.m. Monterey Trail vs. Nevada Union
8:30 p.m. St. Marys (Stockton) vs. McClatchy
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Local Teen Bands Air in TV Start-Up Concert
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Young non-professional musicians perform in a televised Hometown TV rock concert tonight at 7 p.m. on Access Sacramento, Comcast & SureWest channel 17 and AT&T U-verse channel 99.
The broadcast documents the finale of the annual Skip's Music 2013 "Stairway to Stardom" youth training and performance summer program.
Fourteen new bands consisting of vocalists, guitar and keyboard players, and drummers are assembled in early summer and then grouped into performance groups. After eight weeks of training, they performed in a concert at the Crest Theater.
Access Sacramento presents the best of that concert with one song per group in a TV program that will air through the rest of this month.
All of the songs were written by these newly formed music groups under the guidance of music coaches provided by Skip's Music.
When you watch the program look for the top three bands selected on the day of the concert: 1st Place - War Paint; 2nd Place - Contrast; and 3rd Place - Failed Diplomacy.
Air Dates on Channel 17
Tuesday, December 10th @ 7:00pm
Wednesday, December 11th @ 11:00am
Thursday, December 12th @ 3:00am
Sunday, December 15th @ 10:00pm
Monday, December 16th @ 2:00pm (Internet Only)
Tuesday, December 17th @ 6:00am
Saturday, December 28th @ 10:00pm
Sunday, December 29th @ 2:00pm
Monday, December 30th @ 6:00am
Tuesday, December 31st @ 10:00pm
The program can be seen on Comcast and SureWest Cable Channel 17 or AT&T U-verse Channel 99. It can also be seen on the Internet from the Access Sacramento Homepage.
Funding for Hometown TV events is provided under a special grant from the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission.
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Hometown TV Presents:
United Nations Day Annual Dinner
Access Sacramento's own Hometown TV will be featuring a special on the United Nations' Day Annual Dinner, airing on Channel 17 this Wednesday, Dec. 11, at 9:30 p.m. The event will showcase the United Nations Association - Sacramento Chapter's celebration of international United Nations Day.
The event features an internationally known expert on the UN Arms Trade Treaty. Hear his advice for America and what the United States should be doing instead of worrying about nuclear treaties. There is a question and answer session plus other notable speakers.
The full schedule listing for this Hometown TV special is as follows:
Wednesday, December 11th @ 9:30pm
Thursday, December 12th @ 1:30pm (Internet Only)
Friday, December 13th @ 5:30am
Saturday, December 14th @ 6:00pm
Sunday, December 15th @ 10:00am
Monday, December 16th @ 2:00am
Monday, December 16th @ 8:30pm
Tuesday, December 17th @ 12:30pm
Wednesday, December 18th @ 4:30am
All cablecasts will be on Comcast/Surewest Channel 17 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 99, Pacific Daylight/Standard Time, unless otherwise specified. If you don't have those services, it can also be viewed on our website at www.accesssacramento.org, at the times listed above. Click the 'TV 17' icon.
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Digital Filmmaking Camera Demo
The Capital Film Arts Alliance (CFAA) and the Art Institutes of Sacramento present a free demonstration tomorrow of one of Hollywood's most versatile digital cameras from RED Digital.
The Red, Epic and Scarlet Cameras have been used to make this winter's current releases "The Hobbit, Desolation of Smaug," "Robocop 2014," " 300: Rise of an Empire," Thor The Dark World," and "Enders Game" plus plenty of others.
The dense high quality 4K images from a these cameras produces film quality or better images, perfect for today's live action movie with their need for superior visual effects.
Representatives from RED Digital will talk at tomorrow's CFAA meeting to demonstrate the 4k workflow and will show off their newest offering, the new EPIC-M black and white camera.
Admission is free.
The CFAA meeting is held at the Art Institutes of Sacramento, 2850 Gateway Oaks Drive, Sacramento Room 244 from 7-10 p.m. on Tuesday Dec. 10.
RSVP to: info@capitalfilmarts.org to reserve a space for this FREE event.
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Get your Stairway to Stardom
DVD today!
The Access Sacramento Hometown TV crew documented top beginner rock bands at the 33rd annual Skip's Music "Stairway to Stardom" competition at the downtown Crest Theatre earlier this year.
All 11 competing bands perform and are interviewed on the program. Judges selected "War Paint" for first place, "Contrast" for second place, and "Failed Diplomacy" for 3rd place.
The competition began when musicians were auditioned, placed with other beginners, and then challenged to collaborate, write their own songs, and prepare three original compositions to present on stage in front of judges, fans and TV cameras.
The 2-part DVD showcases each band's performance and features exclusive interviews with the performers and their coach. The program includes at least one song from each band and features many musical styles.
Enjoy the Stairway to Stardom experience now! Buy the 2-part DVD at Access Sacramento for only $30. You can place an order over the phone by calling the Front Office at (916) 456-8600 Ext: 0.
Cash or check purchases may be made by coming into the Front Office and checks can be mailed to:
Access Sacramento
4623 T Street, Suite A
Sacramento, CA 95819-4700
Look for Stairway to Stardom 2013 to air on Channel 17 in December. Exact date and time will be made available as the date gets closer.
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"The Bell Boys"
Tuesday, Dec. 17th at 11 pm on Ch 17
By Listen Up! Co-Producer, Michelle A. Barbaria
One of Sacramento's best up and coming bands "The Bell Boys" are featured on this episode of Listen Up! Sacramento. With influences from their multi-cultural heritage and genres such as indie-pop, hip-hop and rock they have created a sound all their own. This 3 piece band is made of 3 brothers who have been playing music since a young age officially formed "The Bell Boys" three years ago. They perform several of their original songs for us including "Lights & Movement", "All We Are" and "Ticket Stub".
To find out more about "The Bell Boys" you can log on to their website at BellBoysMusic.wix.com
This episode of Listen Up! Sacramento featuring "The Bell Boys" airs on Tuesday, December 17th at 11 p.m. on Access Sacramento channel 17. You can also watch the simulcast online at AccessSacramento.org and click 'watch 17'.
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Listen Up! Sacramento features local musicians of all genres and languages. Opinions or statements made on the program do not reflect the opinions of Listen Up! Sacramento and the staff of Access Sacramento. If you are a musician in the Sacramento region and you'd like to be a guest on the show you can submit your information and include a sample of your music or a link to your music to: Listen.Up.Sacramento@gmail.com
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