[Peace] UPTV News

[Jan & Durl Kruse]

UPTV Selected for National Open Media Project

Urbana Public Television has been selected by Denver Open Media as  
one of six public access stations to participate in the Open Media  
Project.  UPTV is a public, educational and governmental access  
station that airs local government meetings and member-submitted  
programs on cable channel 6.  UPTV and the City of Urbana have worked  
for over a decade to keep public access available to Urbana-Champaign.

The Open Media Project will help public access television stations  
better serve their communities and share resources with other  
stations.  The goal of the project is to engage communities in new  
media platforms through the creation of open-source tools developed  
by the participating stations.

In May 2008, Denver Open Media was awarded a $380,000 Knight News  
Challenge grant to fund the Open Media Project. Since that time,  
Denver Open Media has worked on the development of the Open Media  
Project tool set.  The Open Media System will enable public access  
television stations to use a suite of open-source tools to enable the  
transfer of video between their web site and TV station.

Urbana Public Television, Access Humboldt in California, Amherst  
Community Television and Boston Neighborhood Network in  
Massachusetts, Channel Austin in Texas and Portland Community Media  
in Oregon will receive consulting and training services to implement  
the system. In addition, each site will be directly involved in the  
ongoing development of the tool set. “We are all thrilled to have  
such an amazing group of stations dedicated to the success of the  
Open Media Project," said Tony Shawcross, Executive Director of  
Denver Open Media.

“The Open Media Project is an exciting opportunity for Urbana Public  
Television and for the community,” said Kate Gorman, Station Manager  
of UPTV.  “We will be working with the U-C Independent Media Center,  
WRFU and the University of Illinois while developing the tools with  
Urbana Council Member Brandon Bowersox and Joshua King and Dan  
Meredith of Acorn Active Media.  The results of this community-wide  
collaboration will help make local public access a great resource for  
even more people.”

Urbana Public Television will begin working with Denver Open Media  
staff early in January 2009 to implement the project.

For more information, please contact Kate Gorman at  
kagorman at city.urbana.il.us or 217-384-2452.


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