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Access Sacramento's
Production Office will be
closed until January 2nd
Access Sacramento's production offices will be closed for the last two weeks in December. The main business office remains open. Production staff will be working on inventory. We apologize for the inconvenience and we look forward to restarting TV and radio Studio and Digital Media lab use again on Sat., Jan. 2, 2016.
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Donations to
Access Sacramento Help Youth, Health, Community Media
Access Sacramento is a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation providing low-cost or free radio, television and internet services for Sacramento County residents.
Your tax deductible donations support youth and adult training for job skills and work force development, promote health and community news through our channels and AccessLocal.TV, and promote Free Speech and the community voice: Making a Difference, One Voice at a Time. Push HERE to donate today.
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Sacramento Video Industry Professionals (VIPs)
Meetings are on the last Tuesday of every month at the Coloma Community Center.
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Help Access Sacramento Donate a Car, Boat or RV 
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SacCasting.com
Resource Registry for Actors, Directors & Casting Agents
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Film Resource
One of the area's most comprehensive websites and resource guides for local information for filmmakers, crew, actors and outside-the-area producers to get to know our film community better.
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Happy Holidays
From
Access Sacramento
Access Sacramento wishes you the very best of this holiday season with hopes for an even greater New Year.
For nearly three decades, Access Sacramento has been Sacramento County's home for broadcast diversity; the place where local coverage of community and cultural events finds its home on television and radio.
Whether you are celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25, Hanukkah from Dec. 6-14, or Kwanzaa from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1, the Access Sacramento family including staff, Board of Directors and volunteer members hope you have the very best season of all.
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Annual Tradition Galena Street East Holiday Tapestry Premieres Wednesday 7pm Channel 18
For more than 40 years, professional and amateur performers have created a holiday show that delights audiences in Sacramento County.
Hometown TV cameras captured the Galena Street East Holiday Tapestry 2015 for the Access Sacramento audience.
 This year's show features holiday music and dance from around the world with the theme "Passport to the holidays. School children annually visit the show as a cultural and educational opportunity and participate in an "interactive" version of Jingle Bells.
Wednesday, December 23rd @ 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 24th @ 4:00 p.m.
Friday, December 25th @ 9:00 a.m.
 Tune to Channel 18 on Comcast or Consolidated Communications, Channel 14 on AT&T U-Verse or view streaming from AccessSacramento.org.
DVDs can be ordered of this program by calling the Access Sacramento office at 916-456-8600 ext. 0.
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Wednesday Replay of 29th Annual Santa Claus Visit to Sacramento Children and Access Sacramento
Access Sacramento's LiveWire! arts and culture interview show hosted Santa Claus and children from Miss Becky's Tiny Tots Preschool in a special one-hour program featuring a glimpse at the unique voices children bring in this holiday season. 
Santa's original visits to Access Sacramento were televised as Holiday specials, and then joined LiveWire! in 1992. Two holiday performances are featured Wednesday. Singers Terry T.D. Trice and Jenn Rogar perform and the children join in.   This program is hosted by Ray Tatar and Bonnie Antonini in their holiday elf personas. Bonnie also interviews some representatives of the Farm to Fork project at Alpha Charter School.   Tune in to LiveWire! at 5 p.m. Wed., Dec 22 on Access Sacramento Channel 17. You can also watch the simulcast online the same time it airs.The encore presentation airs Thursday at 7:30 p.m. And don't forget to like us at www.facebook.com/LiveWire.Sacramento
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Game of the Week LIVE Tonight
for the 5th Annual St. Hope
Elite Holiday Classic
 Access Sacramento's Hometown Sports Game of the Week tonight, Tues. Dec. 22 will be live at 7:00 p.m. with two semi-final games in the 5th Annual St. Hope Elite Holiday Classic from Sacramento High School. This 32-team tournament features some of the best boys basketball teams in the state for the largest Northern California tournament this year.
Tune in on Comcast channel 17, Consolidated Communications channel 17, AT&T U-Verse channel 14, and on the Internet at AccessSacramento.org |
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Regular programming resumes on Channel 17 on Wed., Dec. 23, but the Game of the Week crew will be taping the two championship division game for playback on Christmas night, Dec. 25 beginning at 7:00 p.m.
Veteran announcers Will James and Kevin Kelly will call the games bringing in plenty of local high school history and insights from their decades of local sports coverage experience.
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Set Your DVR - 16th Annual
"A Place Called Sacramento"
Airs New Year's Day
The first prime-time playback of the stage presentation, awards and movies from the 16th Annual "A Place Called Sacramento" film festival is at 8 p.m. on New Years Day. |
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Filmmakers on stage at The Crest
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The eight films originally shown at The Crest Theatre will be presented in their entirety plus you'll hear comments from all the writer-filmmakers whose world premiere films were presented publicly for the first time. Tune in on the following schedule: Friday, January 1st @ 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 2nd @ 12:00 Noon
Sunday, January 3rd @ 4:00 a.m.
Tuesday, January 5th @ 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January 6th @ 11:00 a.m.
Thursday, January 7th @ 3:00 a.m.
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Award-winning writer Cheryl Wynton-Bealer of "Win, Lose or Draw."
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You'll see two specialty awards presented, including Audience Favorite and Producers' Choice.
The films were made as part of Access Sacramento's "A Place Called Sacramento" film festival; our area's original script writing competition where the filmmakers get automatic big-screen and internet distribution.
All cablecasts will be on Comcast/Consolidated Channel 17, and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14. You can view the show streaming from AccessSacramento.org. Feel free to share this schedule with your friends! Thank you for your support of local community and public access television in Sacramento County.
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Smile.Amazon.com Purchases Help Access Sacramento
This holiday season you can select the "Sacramento Community Cable Foundation" which is Access Sacramento's corporate name to get a donation when you purchase on-line goods from the Smile.Amazon.com website.
Purchases are made in the regular way, but by STARTING with the Smile.Amazon.com website FIRST, a percentage of the purchase price will come back to Access Sacramento, in its federal tax-ID name, the Sacramento Community Cable Foundation. Thank you for supporting Access Sacramento by using this Smile.Amazon.com link.
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Hometown TV Presents
Climate Change Information
Important climate change information presented in Sacramento was recorded by Access Sacramento's Hometown TV crew recently. The United Nations Association-USA Sacramento chapter teamed up with other climate change organizations to provide scientific observations, and to recommend some global steps needed to minimize the results of climate change.
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United Nations Association Climate Change Panel
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Environmental Scientist Dana Nuccitelli
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Climate scientist Dana Nuccitelli was the primary speaker. The talk was followed by a panel discussion and audience Q &A. Nuccitelli writes on climate science for SkepticalScience.com
and the Guardian. and has published eight papers for scientific journals, as well as the book "Climatology Pseudoscience." Tune in:
Saturday, December 26th @ 10:00pm
Sunday, December 27th @ 2:00pm
Monday, December 28th @ 6:00am
Wednesday, January 6th @ 9:30pm
Thursday, January 7th @ 1:30pm
Friday, January 8th @ 5:30a
Watch on Comcast or Consolidated Channel 17, and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14. View streaming from AccessSacramento.org.
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Hometown TV Presents:
EXPERIENCE NURUISM
The Zenzele Nuru presents Experience "Nuruism." It's a program that showcases diverse culture within the community coming together and demonstrating unity.
This show features a local designer's "crochet wear' being modeled, dancers, a live band with singers including a Tina Turner tribute. All of this tells the designer Zenzele Nuru's story of why she does what she does. This prrogram focused on hair design and clothing and all the influences that brought her to be who she is--wrapped in a variety show!
Sunday, December 27th @ 5:00pm
Monday, December 28th @ 9:00am
Tuesday, December 29th @ 1:00am
Saturday, January 2nd @ 10:00pm
Sunday, January 3rd @ 2:00pm
Monday, January 4th @ 6:00am
Sunday, January 10th @ 10:00pm
Monday, January 11th @ 2:00pm
Tuesday, January 12th @ 6:00am
Tune to Channel 17 on Comcast or Consolidated Communications, Channel 14 on AT&T U-Verse or view streaming from AccessSacramento.org.
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Skip's Music 35th Annual
Stairway to Stardom 2015 Airing Dates in the Next Two Weeks
The 35th annual Skip's Music Stairway to Stardom 2015 was filmed at The Crest Theatre on Aug. 9, 2015 and featured 10 original youth bands formed just for this competition.  Special guests The Grey Area, Embryo, Grant Chesin, and Altessa also perform. Meet the bands during interviews of all acts by Staci Anderson. The show is emceed by Charlie Thomas of The Eagle. Don't miss this annual classic event -- with fully mixed audio maximizing each band's best song. Tune in on the following schedule: Tuesday, December 29th @ 7:00pm
Wednesday, December 30th @ 11:00am
Thursday, December 31st @ 3:00am
Sunday, January 3rd @ 10:00pm
Monday, January 4th @ 2:00pm
Tuesday, January 5th @ 6:00am
All cablecasts will be on Comcast/Consolidated Channel 17, and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14. Or view streaming from AccessSacramento.org. Feel free to share this schedule with your friends! Thank you for your support of local community and public access television in Sacramento County.
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Enter Your Best Video in the
WAVE Awards to Honor the
Best in the West
Final Deadline Jan 1, 2016
The annual awards competition by the Alliance for Community Media - West is accepting entries for the annual WAVE Awards through Jan. 1, 2016.
All videos may be entered whether they have been broadcast on an Access station or not. Video entries must originate in California, Nevada, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico or Arizona.
https://filmfreeway.com/festival/thewaveawards
The Western Access Video Excellence (WAVE) awards competition is accepting entries now. The final deadline is Jan. 1, 2016.
Entry categories include community events, information and news, sports, music, inspirational/religious, live, narrative film and documentary and plenty more.
Winners will be announce during the ACM-West annual conference, this year in Honolulu, Hawaii in mid-March.
WAVE award entries will be judged and finalists will be named in Mid-January, with enough time for any entrants who would like to attend the awards ceremony to get the lowest airfares to Hawaii.
Competitive divisions allow similar skills sets to compete one again the other. As always, videos that have aired on access channels in six western states compete as community producers (volunteer) or professional producers (paid), A new division this year allows competition for videos that have not aired on access channels.
For more information on the conference, visit ACM-West.org
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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.
