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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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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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SacCasting.com
Resource Registry for Actors, Directors & Casting Agents
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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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Forced Change in Internet Streaming For KUBU
Who would have thought streaming to the Internet could become so complex, so fast. No one questions that in the world of music licensing that artists, performers, bands, musicians and stars should all be paid for use of their work. The transition for how they get paid for use of their recordings by big and little Internet broadcast stations though is suffering through what arguably is its biggest transition of all time. |
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KUBU producers meeting late last year
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Over-the-air broadcasters like KUBU-LP already pay more than $800 in licensing fees to ASCAP, BMI and SESAC for what's called a " blanket license" to broadcast CD's and records by the artists represented by those companies. However, Internet broadcasting is not represented by those companies. In the sunset of 2015, the rules that allowed low-cost efficient music licensing by a variety of companies went away. Now, all Internet licensing is handled almost exclusively by a company called SoundExchange. |
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Radio producer JoAnn Fuller with Access Sacramento Executive Director Gary Martin in Studio One
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The new rules in 2016 mean each station that wants to stream must now license directly. KUBU is in the process of getting the required permission, and should be streaming again soon. Those who fail to get that permission however could face huge fines, so understandably, Access Sacramento's low-power FM station is proceeding with caution until all the arrangements are finalized. The Board of Directors and staff at Access Sacramento thank all the community radio producers for their patience until the transition is complete.
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Capital Swing, Happy Tails,
and JaNay Brown-Wood Tomorrow on Live Wire!
Dancing, dogs, and reading on this week's LiveWire!
Capital Swing Dancers is a nonprofit West Coast Swing dance club. The purpose of this club is to promote and further West Coast Swing dancing, to offer various social activities, and to encourage good fellowship.
Founded in 1993, Happy Tails Pet Sanctuary is an animal rescue group dedicated to protecting and improving the lives of homeless and abused animals throughout the Sacramento area.
JaNay BrownWood, children's author and educator, will be joining us to talk about her book Imani's Moon and her upcoming public reading at Underground Books on February 6th at noon.
Join us and tune in to LiveWire! at 5 p.m. tomorrow Feb. 3 on Access Sacramento channel 17. You can also watch the simulcast online at the same time it airs live.The encore presentation airs Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Don't forget to like us at www.facebook.com/LiveWire.Sacramento.
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Listen Up! Flashback episode: "Wonder Women" (Part 1)
Tonight at 11pm on Channel 17
"Listen Up! Sacramento is pleased to present a special 2 part Flashback episode called "Wonder Women!" Featuring a diverse selection of the strong, talented, & hard-working musicians from our local live music scene, whom just happen to also be female. In this episode, watch clips from: Julie The Bruce, Dr. Tammé Shinshuri, Xochitl, Ricky Berger, Sandra Dolores, Century Got Bars. Enjoy this look back at some truly remarkable women!
Tune in to "Listen Up! Sacramento" at 11pm on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016 on Access Sacramento channel 17 on Comcast/Consolidated Communications and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14. You can also watch with our web simulcast at the same time it airs. Watch replays of the episode on Wednesday at 3:00pm, & Thursday at 7:00am.
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Access Sacramento Seeks
Non-Profits to Apply for Green Screen Studio Equipment
High Tech equipment grants valued at nearly $30,000 each will be awarded in early April to several Sacramento County non-profits or schools in a process designed to help residents get better access to cable television broadcasting. The Request for Proposal (RFP) instructions are available on the Access Sacramento website HERE. The application deadline is Friday, March 11. |
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Green Studio at Access Sacramento
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A complete set of equipment including cameras, microphones, lights and the computer and software to run a NewTek Tricaster Green Screen Studio will be awarded to the selected awardees. |
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This virtual reality set has three cameras and is state of the art for multi-cam production
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Questions about about the RFP must be submitted by Feb. 22. Those selected must produce a minimum of 60-minutes of programming a month, provide a secure dedicated space for the equipment, have staff to be trained, and provide appropriate insurance among other requirements. Questions should be directed to Access Sacramento Executive Director Gary Martin at postmaster@AccessSacramento.org
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Legal Victory for California
Public Access
A big part of how public access cable TV broadcast media centers like Access Sacramento survive is dependent on dollars collected directly from cable subscribers and distributed to us by the Sacramento Metropolitan Cable TV commission.
Some good news arrived recently that means those dollars are a bit safer than they had been.
The California Attorney General's office issued an opinion that the PEG fees that pay for much of the equipment access center use are not a tax. |
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Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission meeting last year
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Cable operators are required to collect and pay these fees under the DIVCA law since 2008. Although it is mostly a technical ruling -- so nothing is really going to change --- but the decision means these fees are not subject to the general California requirement that new or increased taxes must be approved by referendum. This is important for us in Sacramento and many other California communities, where some operators had refused to pay state-authorized PEG fees on the ground that the fees were "taxes" and not valid until approved by referendum. Congratulations to the City of Ontario, the County of Los Angeles and our own Sacramento Metropolitan Cable Television Commission, who filed comments urging the Attorney General to decide California referendum requirements do not apply. Thanks to The Buske Group for contributing to this article.
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Game of the Week LIVE Friday
Laguna Creek at Kennedy Boys
The Game of the Week Crew resumes LIVE coverage of high school basketball this Friday at Kennedy High School when the Cougars host the Laguna Creek Cardinals. |
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Play by Play announcer Will James (left) and color analyst Kevin Kelly
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Announcers Will James, Kevin Kelly and Rick Stewart call the action LIVE on Access Sacramento. Tune in on Comcast or Consolidated Communications cable channel 17, AT&T U-Verse channel 14 or streaming live from AccessSacramento.org. Access Sacramento is in negotiation with the NFHS Network to provide LIVE preliminary round coverage of some CIF high school basketball playoffs as well. Expect more on this in the weeks ahead.
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TV Replay of 42nd Annual Pig Bowl - Guns vs. Hoses XIV Saturday & Super Bowl Sunday
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Walt Gray & Doug Kelly on the sidelines of the Pig Bowl
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Catch all the action of Sacramento's longest running charity football game, the Pig Bowl, Sat. Feb. 6 at 8 p.m. and Super Bowl Sunday at noon when the Law Hogs take on the Fire Dogs. |
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Audio Operator Greg Kuropat captures field sounds for the Pig Bowl
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The game was reset 14 years ago as Guns vs. Hoses so that fire fighters could get in on the action. Access Sacramento's crew televised the game live last weekend, in our 23rd broadcast of the annual event. Walt Gray of ABC 10, Doug Kelly of KHTK and UC Davis football, and Quinn Gregory a sports representative for athletes in Northern California call the action. |
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ABC 10's Walt Gray after being inducted into the Pig Bowl Hall of Fame Saturday
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Gray who began broadcasting the game in 1985 for KCRA continued with Access Sacramento from 1994 until the present. Gray was one of initial 16 people inducted at halftime into the Pig Bowl Hall of Fame. The game can be seen on Access Sacramento cable 17 on Comcast and Consolidated Comunications, channel 14 on AT&T U-Verse, and streaming from Access Sacramento.org
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Nine Programs from Access Sacramento Named Finalists in Best in the West WAVE Awards
Nine programs that air on Access Sacramento were announced as finalists Friday in the Western Access Video Excellence (WAVE) awards by the Alliance for Community Media - West Regions that features Public, Educational and Government access programs from six western states.
The Finalists are:
 Dramatic Film - Short (Professional)
Two Pods and a Pea
by Thuy Pham
Informational - Talk Show (Community Producer)
The Yancy Show
Informational - Talk Show (Non-Affiliated)
Shelter Life - Nutcracker Mutt
Instructional / Do it Yourself (Professional)
Bon La Beef - Beef Sirloin Yakitori
Live Format (Professional)
California Pro Am Water Ski Championships (Men's)
Music Programming (Community Producer)
Alive & Kicking - Joy & Madness, part 1
Program / Channel Promo (Professional)
Sizzle Reel
Special Audience Programming (Professional)
The Yancy Show
 Webisode - Web or TV (Professional)
Livewire Christmas Special (2014)
The annual Best in the West competition drew entries from 34 locations. Four centers in Northern California topped the list of most finalists across six states: CreaTV in San Jose had 12, Mid-Penninsula in Palo Alto had 11 and Access Sacramento had nine and Pacifica Community TV had eight.
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Sacramento Mayoral Candidates Forum Replay Schedule
Watch on Cable or Online
The 90-minute Sacramento Mayoral Candidates Forum that originally aired live on Access Sacramento two weeks ago plays again today and tomorrow.
The Sacramento Metro Chamber's event features discussion with candidates Angelique Ashby, current city council member, and Darrell Steinberg, former state senator and city council member.
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The Hometown TV broadcast is also avaialble for direct viewing from Access Sacramento's YouTube channel and new blog website AccessLocatl.Tv.
Air Dates:
Tuesday, February 2nd @ 12:30pm
Wednesday, February 3rd @ 4:30am
Watch on Comcast or Consolidated Channel 17, and AT&T U-Verse Channel 14. View streaming from AccessSacramento.org.
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City of Sacramento Wants Your Advice on the Future
Every year, the City of Sacramento conducts a short survey to obtain your thoughts about living, working, and doing business in the City of Sacramento.  You can help set a new direction for the future of the city by participating in the annual survey. This survey is geared to those that live and work in the City of Sacramento and is aimed to help identify the city's successes, challenges, and opportunities.
The survey results will be included as part of the 2035 General Plan Annual Report, which is presented to City Council annually.
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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.
