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Home My WebLink AboutMN-CABLE-2013-02-12Cable Access Oversight Committee Minutes February 12, 2013 (as approved April 1, 2013) The PEGASYS Access Oversight Committee (AOC) met at 4:45 pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013, in the PEGASYS studio, 612 W. Green St., Ithaca, NY. Present: AOC members Wayles Browne, Mike Brutvan, chair Rich DePaolo, liaison from Common Council (City of Ithaca) J.R. Clairborne, Wies van Leuken; studio manager Lauren Stefanelli; Chris Wheatley, the new Manager of TV and Radio Operations at Ithaca College (ICTV). 0) Notes by W. Browne as AOC secretary. 1) Rich DePaolo called the meeting to order. 2) Agenda Additions and /or Deletions: none. 3) Public Comment: none. 4) Minutes of the Jan. 8, 2013 meeting: approved, with 1 abstention. 5) Access Studio Coordinator Report. Attached. a. Annual Subscriber Fee Report ( "$0.15 /subscriber /month revenues that go to equipment "): not provided by TWC. Van Leuken: the total revenues for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 reported by TWC on 2/12/08 and again on 5111/10 to be $22,708.04, $20,144.93 and $19,616.00 were changed in the 2012Annual Subscriber Fee Report. They changed from $22,708.04 to $20,456.70 (2004); from $20,144.93 to $19,658.85 (2005) and from $19,616.00 to $18,910.50 (2006), a loss of more than $3,000. The sum of # of customers x $0.15 should be a fixed number not subject to change. Stefanelli: able to get figures only through TWC manager Thomas Doheny, who has said that the accountants were using algorithms (formulas) instead of counting real dollars. b. Maintenance and Repair Report: none this month. Brutvan asks about the time - base corrector, an item needed for his programs; Stefanelli will look into it. c. Semi - Annual Usage Fees Report: partial report presented with a list of collected fees but without a list of how the funds were used. Table included in minutes, but without individual producers' names. d. Funding proposals from educational institutions - none yet received. e. The Access Studio Coordinator included a report on equipment usage and a program analysis. 6) Member Reports a. Quarterly Franchise Fee Report from City, Town and Village (4th Quarter 2012). DePaolo will ask the Town of Ithaca for it; Clairborne will ask the City (= Controller Steven Thayer). Van Leuken will get it from the Village of Cayuga Heights. b. Franchise Agreement. A draft proposal for TCCOG (Tompkins County Council of Governments) to consider will be written in March, taking into account components of the City's proposals and others from agreements elsewhere in the U.S. Van Leuken will provide a "wish list" of desiderata. Channel 148 will be the City's channel as soon as the City has some programming of its own; it's not yet "lit up" now. It's a digital channel, available on standard -tier subscriptions, not on basic tier. Even after 148 goes on, city meetings can still be on channel 15. Members discussed DePaolo's draft letter to TCCOG municipalities not now taking part in PEG, and suggested small changes. c. Public Visibility of PEG. Chris Wheatley: I ran an announcement on WICB radio about some cable TV subscribers not receiving channels 13, 15, and 16; many responses by phone. An item for the next franchise: the need for a dedicated website or web page for PEG. d. Business Hours and Staffing: the PEG studio needs some hours of an engineer's time on a regular basis; another item for the next franchise. e. Equipment Recipients' reports: information about equipment failures should be included in minutes. During the PEG Awards ceremony on Feb. 22, AOC members will poll producers about problems they encounter. 7) Old Business a. Loss of Channels 13, 15 and 16 to some subscribers: see under 6c. 8) Next meeting. Tuesdays are a problem for Clairborne. Stefanelli has to leave Wednesdays at 5:30. Decided: change meetings to the first Monday of the month at 4:30. The next meeting will be Monday, March 4 [later changed to Monday, April 1]. 9) Adjourned at 6:30. Contact information for AOC members: J. R. Clairborne, Common Council liaison 2013- < jclairbo @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@twc able. com> To: AOC February 2013 Access Studio Coordinator Report - 2012 PEGASYS Facility and Channel 13 Usage Reports 2012 and 2011 reports are attached for comparison. Note particularly that, after a steady decline from 2006 through 2011, program production has increased in 2012. About 50 more new shows were produced at the PEGASYS Center than in 2011. All areas of production services have also shown a notable increase in usage. - PEGASYS User Fees Report for 2012 attached. - PEGASYS Awards The 2013 PEGASYS Awards ceremony will take place on February 22, in a live cablecast on channel 13, starting at 8pm. AOC members are cordially invited to attend. - Governmental Access The City of Ithaca received a new version of its NEXUS server, which it hopes will resolve some problems it was having getting live streaming of meetings up and running. PEGASYS Fees Total 2012 Account 3520 -31- 9900 -49101 Municipality Jan -June 2012 Status Jul -Dec 2012 Status Groton $30.00 PAID Danby $30.00 PAID Dryden $30.00 PAID Ulysses $20.00 PAID [May -Oct] Caroline $20.00 PAID [May -Oct] Caroline $30.00 PAID [Jun -Nov] Dryden $30.00 PAID [Jun -Nov] Dryden $30.00 PAID [Jun -Nov] Newfield $20.00 PAID [Jun -Nov] Lansing $20.00 PAID [Jun -Nov] Organization Subtotal Total fees $260.00 $100.00 $100.00 $360.00 PAID [Jul -Dec] Time Warner Cable Syracuse Div. 2/12/2013 3:45 PM, Page 1 Equipment Usage By Group and Type 1/1/2012 to 12/31/2012 Number of Uses Hours of Use Dollar Value Editing Premiere Edit 1 Adobe Premiere Non - linear Editor 110 468.50 $23,425.00 Premiere Edit 2 Adobe Premiere Non - linear Editor 71 212.00 $10,600.00 Premiere Edit 3 Adobe Premiere CS6 Editor Laptop 36 3,381.50 $7,043.7E Premiere Edit 4 Adobe Premiere CS6 Editor Laptop 48 4,902.00 $15,318.7E Group Totals Editing 308 265 8,964.00 $56,387.51 Port Cam Camcorder DVCam Sony DSR250 DVCam Camcorder Camcorder HF300 Canon VIXIA HFM300 Camcorder X10 Sony DSR PDX10 Mini DVCam Camcorder Camcorder -HM100 JVC GY- HM1000 Memory Card Camcorder Group Totals Port Cam Studio Studio 1 3- camera studio, 15x34' Studio 2 Ministudio Group Totals Studio Editing 2 147.50 $918.75 24 5,239.50 $10,916.69 197 15,442.58 $45,015.84 6 606.50 $0.00 229 21,436.08 $56,851.28 237 468.00 $51,480.00 71 193.50 $21,285.00 308 661.50 $72,765.00 PEGASYS Equipment Usage By Group and Type 1/1/2011 to 12/31/2011 Number of Uses Hours of Use Dollar Value Linear Edit 1 SVHS /Hi8, Cuts -only, Linear Editor 50 182.00 $9,100.00 Premiere Edit 1 Adobe Premiere Non - linear Editor 48 138.50 $6,925.00 Premiere Edit 2 Adobe Premiere Non - linear Editor 64 172.50 $8,625.00 Premiere Edit 3 Adobe Premiere CS6 Editor Laptop 47 6,149.00 $12,806.27 Group Totals Editing 209 6,642.00 $37,456.27 Port Cam Camcorder DVCam Sony DSR250 DVCam Camcorder Camcorder HF300 Canon VIXIA HFM300 Camcorder X10 Sony DSR PDX10 Mini DVCam Camcorder Group Totals Port Cam Studio Studio 1 3- camera studio, 15x34' Studio 2 Ministudio Group Totals Studio 3 2,905.00 $18,156.25 24 5,066.50 $10,047.93 174 20,045.50 $58,400.17 201 28,017.00 $86,604.35 216 435.00 $47,850.00 38 104.50 $11,495.00 254 539.50 $59,345.00 Time Warner Cable Syracuse Div. 2/12/2013 3:41 PM, Page 1 Channel 13 Programming Analysis For Schedule Dates: 1/1/2012 to 12/31/2012 No. of Different Hours Played Number of Plays Programs Played All Programming First Run 485.80 612 612 Repeat 3752.67 4976 892 Total First Run and Repeat 4238.47 5588 910 By Origin Other Local First Run 20.25 22 22 Repeat 257.18 274 30 Total First Run and Repeat 277.43 296 32 PEGASYS First Run 432.05 573 573 Repeat 3276.22 4417 770 Total First Run and Repeat 3708.27 4990 781 Satellite First Run 26.00 4 4 Repeat 0.75 1 1 Total First Run and Repeat 26.75 5 5 Syndicated First Run 7.50 13 13 Repeat 218.52 284 91 Total First Run and Repeat 226.02 297 92 Channel 13 Programming Analysis For Schedule Dates: 1/1/2011 to 12/31/2011 Number of Different Hours Played Number of Plays Programs Played All Programming First Run 492.22 601 601 Repeat 3344.42 4378 808 Total First Run and Repeat 3836.63 4979 829 By Origin Other Local First Run 23.67 26 26 Repeat 223.95 245 30 Total First Run and Repeat 247.62 271 30 PEGASYS First Run 403.38 524 524 Repeat 2977.65 3936 691 Total First Run and Repeat 3381.03 4460 703 Satellite First Run 26.00 4 4 Total First Run and Repeat 26.00 4 4 Syndicated First Run 39.17 47 47 Repeat 142.82 197 87 Total First Run and Repeat 181.98 244 92