HomeMy WebLinkAboutMN-CABLE-2012-03-13Cable Access Oversight Committee minutes Mar. 13, 2012 (as approved Apr. 10, 2012)
The PEGASYS Access Oversight Committee (AOC) met at 4:30 pm on Tuesday,
Mar. 13, 2012, in the PEGASYS studio, 612 W. Green St., Ithaca, NY.
Present: AOC members Wayles Browne, Mike Brutvan, Cynthia Brock, Wies van
Leuken, chair Rich DePaolo; studio manager Lauren Stefanelli.
0) Notes by W. Browne as AOC secretary.
1) Rich DePaolo called the meeting to order at 4:40.
2) Agenda Additions and/or Deletions: none.
3) Minutes of the Feb. 15, 2012 meeting: approved without changes.
4) Public Comment: None.
5) PEGASYS Capital Budget 2013. AOC began considering this. It needs to be
approved by AOC and submitted to the City of Ithaca, Town of Ithaca, and Village of
Cayuga Heights for their approval by June 2012 (for the City: by the 4th week in May, in
time for a committee meeting).
L. Stefanelli: I have sent a letter inviting schools, Cooperative Extension, the City
Youth Bureau, Greater Ithaca Activities Center, Southside, and the County Government
to submit requests to use educational channel 16 and government access channel 15, as
well as applications for equipment funding. No replies yet. Jim Blizzard (Coop
Extension/County) is now consulting County people about their needs connected with
moving out of the Courthouse into the new County building (= the Old Jail), but probably
no County requests will come in time for the 2013 budget.
W. van Leuken: Henceforth it would be good to ask for requests earlier in the year.
6) Access Studio Coordinator Report (page 3, with 2 Attachments)
a. Time Warner Cable (TWC)'s Capital Purchase Report
b. TWC's Semi - Annual Usage Fees Report
7) Member Reports.
a. Use of staff time for Production and Transmission services. R. DePaolo has not
yet heard from the City Attorney's office about a meeting.
b. Producer Survey. M. Brutvan has asked producers if they'll be able to use HD
equipment. About 5 replies, no large interest in HD. He also asked producers and
members of the Human Services e -mail list if they had heard of instances of subscribers
losing reception on channels 13, 15, and 16. A couple of affirmative replies so far from
the HS list; he informs them that TWC can repair the problem without charge.
Question from Van Leuken: in Cayuga Medical Center, channel 13 on the TVs
shows medical broadcasts instead of public access. How is this possible?
Brutvan: if in a given building some channel is used for a different purpose, the
content of e.g. channel 13 or 16 can be switched to one of the other channels.
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Brutvan regarding HD: HD cameras all shoot pictures that are 16 x 9 (width 16 x
height 9). Are there any that can shoot the more familiar shape 4 x 3 (which would equal
16 x 12)? If not, editing software can change the dimensions (the 'aspect ratio'). Older
Premiere software can do this; the new Premiere does it easily.
Stefanelli: the future is with wide screen and HD.
c. AOC's Capital Purchase Report to the City: AOC will hand on to the City what
Stefanelli has reported.
d. Quarterly Franchise Fee Report from City, Town and Village: DePaolo expects
Town figures for the first quarter of 2012 to be available in April. City Controller Steven
Thayer gave C. Brock some figures.
e. Reception of channels 13, 15 and 16 evidently has been lost by some subscribers:
R. DePaolo will write a letter to TWC.
8) Review the effect of the change in studio opening hours (changed in January
from Wed. evening to Wed. afternoon): Several producers like it. Rev. Sonya Hicks
didn't but is willing for Stefanelli to have an evening at home.
9) Next Meeting: Tuesday Apr. 10, 2012, 4:30 p.m.
10) Adjourned 5:57.
Contact information for AOC members:
Cynthia Brock, Common Council liaison <cbrock @cityofithaca.org>
Wayles Browne, secretary <ewb2 @cornell.edu>
Rich DePaolo, chair <rd @richdepaolo.com>
Wies van Leuken, vice chair <pmv4 @cornell.edu>
Michael Brutvan <mbrutvan @me.com>
Web site for the PEGASYS studio, with program schedules:
http://pegasys.webstarts.com/index.html
studio location: 612 West Green Street, Ithaca, New York
mailing address: 519 West State Street, Ithaca, NY 14850
phone (607) 272 -7272
fax (607) 277 -5404
PEGASYS staff. studio manager Lauren Stefanelli <lauren.stefanelli @twcable.com>
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To: AOC March 2012
Access Studio Coordinator Report
- Volunteer News
The PEGASYS Awards ceremony will be on March 16th, in a live cablecast on
channel 13 starting at 8pm. AOC members are invited to attend.
- PEGASYS Facility
The soon -to -be equipment storage and training room has been cleared of news
possessions and cleaned.
The PEGASYS control room will get a reorganization of its media racks shortly,
to incorporate 2 media players and a hard drive recorder. After several meetings with our
engineer and consultation with interested producers, we have a reorganization plan and
just need a day when our engineer has several hours to do the re- wiring. I think this will
help with general problems of connections and training in the studio: as we will clean up
the many extra cables slapped in there for 1 -time projects, replace cables that are old
and brittle, and put all media in logical, properly labelled order.
Our front door light has been replaced and rewired by electricians. This should
give us better lighting at our front entrance at night.
- Equipment Repair
Our X10 camcorder damaged last month has been repaired and returned to service.
Our new digital card camcorder that was damaged by a producer has been sent out for
repair.
Our new laptop doesn't power up. It has been sent out for repair while under warranty.
- Reports
Attachment 1 is the final equipment spending report for 2011. We spent
$9589.90, well under our $10,000 budget [Adobe software went on sale, saving us
about $400]. This brings our equipment fund spending for this franchise from
$103,810.92 [through 2010 — see report from last month] to $113,400.84. Equipment
fund fees collected through 2010 total $130,283.85. 1 do not have 2011 collections data,
but it seems to be in the $16- 18,000 range per year.
Attachment 2 is an update of user fees collected vs. spent [none spent in 2011].
- Educational and Governmental Access News
Fe Nunn has been appointed by the ICSD superintendent to start a video project
for the district. I met with him and discussed his mandate. I think what really excited him
was the idea that the video resources of the whole district - including the studio at
Boynton, the video - enabled auditorium at LACS and the video -wired board room at
I.H.S. — could be tapped by the district for the benefit of all, instead of being used for
single users at one school as they are now. As all three of these video studios have
been created with PEGASYS resources and assistance, having a superintendent who
creates goals of utilizing them more intensively for PEG programming is an exciting
development. A second meeting with the superintendent will be set up within the next
few weeks.
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March 2012 Access Studio Coordinator Report Attachment 1
2011 Ithaca Equipment Fund Final Spending Report
1 Edirol /Roland R -44 4- Channel Field Digital Audio Recorder
each
1,395.00
total
1,395.0
$ 794.76 $
794.76
1 Zoom H2 Ultra- Portable Digital Audio Recorder
$
124.99
$
124.99
4 Blue Snowball USB Condenser Microphone/ desk stand /cable
$
63.99
$
255.96
4 Blue Snowball USB Condenser Microphone/ desk stand /cable
$
63.00
$
252.00
1 Western Digital Media Player W10 -9308
$
129.95
$
129.95
1 Western Digital Live Media Player
$
99.00
$
99.0C
2 Iogear GFR281 Reader and Writer
$
14.44
$
28.8E
2 56 -in -1 card reader
$
18.99
$
37.9E
2 Datavideo - DN -200 DV /HDV Hard Disk
$
913.77
$
1,827.54
Editine Laptop Computer
1 HP Elite Laptop PC i7 with Windows 7, wireless LAN, USB, firewire jack
$
1,395.00
$
1,395.0
1 Adobe Reader, Quicktime, Windows Moviemaker, Media Player, case, mouse
$
47.00
$
47.0
1 laptop soft case
$
20.31
$
20.3
1 Wireless Mouse
$
34.99
$
34.9
1 Mouse Shield
$
8.47
$
8.4
Software / trainine materials for PC:
1 Adobe Production Suite CS5.5 Software Package [$1699 list price]
$
899.00 $
899.00
1 Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 Classroom in a Box [training book] [$53.99 list price]
1 JVC GY- HM1000 ProHD Camcorder
$
36.91
1 Adobe After Effects CS5 Classroom in a Box [training book] [$53.99 list price]
2,348.33
$
37.7S
1 Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Box [training book] [$49.49 list price]
$
$
28.07
1 Adobe Photoshop CS5 Classroom in a Box [training book] [$49.49 list price
72.95
$
28.07
1 Anime Studio Pro 7 [Smithmicro] [$199 list price]
$
183.99
1 Toon Boom Studio 6 with Essential Workout Series Training
$
299.99 $
299.99
1 Video Shooter, Second Edition: Storytelling with HD Cameras [book]
$
29.66 $
29.6E
Portable Eaumment
2 Bescor - LED -95DK Dual 95W Light Kit
$
189.00
$
378.00
1 JVC GY- HM1000 ProHD Camcorder
$
2,348.33
$
2,348.33
2 SanDisk - 16GB Extreme SDHC Memory Card
$
36.77
$
73.5z
2 JVC - BN -VF823 Lithium -Ion Battery Pack
$
72.95
$
145.9(
subtotal $ 9,546.08
tax / shipping $ 43.84
total $ 9,589.92
March 2012 Access Studio Coordinator Report Attachment 2
2011 PEGASYS Non - Participating Municipalities User Fees Collected and Spent
Report Date: March 2012
Carry -over Remaining Fund User Fees as of January 2011 *: $8.00
User Fees Collected in 2011 * *: + $230.00
Carry -over Remaining Fund User Fees as of January 2012: $238.00
* See January 2011 Access Coordinator Report for attached report with breakout
information
** See January 2012 Access Coordinator Report for attached report with breakout
information
To hire a substitute staff - person costs approximately $17 -19 /hour, depending on
experience, including temp agency overhead. Depending on collections this year, we
may be able to cover about one week of PEGASYS operations during regular staff
scheduled absence.