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Access Oversight Committee (AOC) minutes
Monday, February 3, 2014, 4:30 PM
Meeting Room, PEGASYS Access Center, 519 West Green St., Ithaca, NY
(as approved March 3, 2014)
Present: AOC members Wayles Browne, chair Rich DePaolo, vice -chair Wies van Leuken,
Michael Brutvan; studio manager Lauren Stefanelli; members of the public and producers Ann
Krajewski, Chris Church. Liaison from Common Council (City of Ithaca) J.R. Clairborne called
in: absent due to a family emergency.
01. Call to Order by R. DePaolo at 4:37.
02. Agenda Additions and/or Deletions: none.
03. Public Comments: Ann Krajewski has an art demonstration show (presently on hiatus). She
reacts to William Swan's article "Access Eclipse: PEGASYS public access television seems
neglected by both Time Warner Cable" (Jan. 29, 2014 Ithaca Times), seeing Bryan VanCampen's
pessimistic views quoted in it as "biting the hand that feeds him." VanCampen has one broadcast
show and 24 on YouTube. The writer of the article seems to have had his own agenda.
DePaolo, replying: The article doesn't seem all that negative, but does bring out differences of
opinion between AOC and TWC. Phrases like "going down the tubes" could be said of
newspapers as well.
Chris Church (producer of the 'Mr. C1eanN' show) hopes to take some action to increase
viewership. Both Ann and Chris keep getting stopped on the street by viewers saying "I saw you
on TV!" Chris: it's never been clear why there's competition between Internet and PEG; they
should be mutually reinforcing.
Brutvan: consider archiving all PEG shows on one YouTube channel. There are Google
applications that can help create a site.
04. Approval of Minutes of the January 6, 2014 meeting. Minutes approved with one formatting
change, 4 -0.
05. Access Studio Coordinator Report (attached).
a. Annual Subscriber Fee Report from TWC ($0.15 /subscriber /month revenues): still needed.
Stefanelli will ask an accountant.
b. TWC's Maintenance and Repair Report. Included.
c. TWC Semi - Annual Usage Fees Report
(fees paid by producers from non - participating communities). Jan -June 2013 $160, July -Dec. 2013
$200, total fees 2013 $360.
d. Status of 2013 Budget's purchases. Included [i.e. still overdue after a year].
e. Interim Report on Responses Re: "RFP to Educational Institutions ". Included [none yet].
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06. Member Reports
a. AOC took note of two Jan. 29, 2014 Ithaca Times articles: "Access Eclipse: PEGASYS
public access television seems neglected by both Time Warner Cable" and "Council of
Governments: Towns propose deal with cable giant ". DePaolo asks Brutvan about the first
article. Brutvan: Van Campen asked me to speak with the author. The photographer made a visit
to the studio; the author didn't. DePaolo suggests a brainstorming session with producers on
ways to publicize PEGASYS.
Agreed: we'll invite producers to the Mar. 3 meeting at 6 pm for a discussion. We'll announce
this at the Peg Awards session Friday, Feb. 28.
Brutvan: an idea would be to write Wikipedia pages.
b. Draft PEGASYS Policies and Procedures Manual - Review. Van Leuken will meet with
Stefanelli, then AOC will take up van Leuken's proposals at its next meeting. M. Brutvan plans
to set up a Google document.
07. Old Business
a. Franchise Agreement. DePaolo: The proposed text of the new agreement has been formally
submitted to TWC.
b. Equipment Recipients' reports. None.
c. Migration PEG channels - report. TWC's person in charge of government relations David
Whalen has not yet gotten back to DePaolo; DePaolo will ask him again.
08. New Business. None.
09. Next meeting: 4:30, Monday, March 3, 2014
10. Adjournment at 6:20.
Notes by W. Browne as AOC secretary.
Contact information for AOC members:
City of Ithaca: Wayles Browne, secretary <ewb2 @cornell.edu>
City of Ithaca: Michael Brutvan <mbrutvan @me.com>
City of Ithaca: J. R. Clairborne, Common Council liaison 2014 - <jclairbo @cityofithaca.org>
Town of Ithaca: Rich DePaolo, chair <rd @richdepaolo.com>
Village of Cayuga Heights: Wies van Leuken, vice chair <pmv4 @cornell.edu>
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 February 2014
Access Studio Coordinator Report
- Educational and Governmental Access News
A letter inviting educational and governmental institutions to request equipment funding
was sent out in January, incorporating changes suggested by AOC members. No
replies have been received as yet.
- Access Capital
The 2013 access capital fund has not yet been approved for expenditure.
- Equipment Repair
A replacement audio monitor was put in our studio in January, replacing one which had
its woofer broken by a producer through excessive volume.
Our Gen CG character generator seems to be running well, now that we have it on its
own power outlet.
One of our laptop editors has had improved functionality, when we discovered that not
all the software had been loaded originally. That last software has now been added and
it has all functions of the other units.
- PEGASYS Awards
The 2014 PEGASYS Awards video competition is underway. The awards ceremony will
take place on February 28, in a live cablecast on channel 13.
- PEGASYS PR
2 Ithaca Times articles featured PEG subjects in January.
On January 15, an article featured the Ithaca High School video studio, and their
planned and current ed. access productions.
On January 29, "Access Eclipse," a cover story, asserted the obsolescence of
PEGASYS, supported by accusations and predictions of demise from long -time
producers Mike Brutvan and Bryan vanCampen.
- PEGASYS Usage Stats
Attached.
Good news is that our program production has gone up for the second year in a row.
Locally - produced shows were down to 550 in 2011, having steadily declined from a high
of 754 in 2005. In 2012 this number climbed a bit to 595. In 2013, it climbed further to
634. New programming numbers including both locally - produced and syndicated shows
also rose, from a 2011 low of 601 to 700 in 2013.
In facility usage, the most notable change is in studio use, which has risen from 308
uses or 661 hours in 2012 to 359 uses or 803 hours in 2013.
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PEGASYS Channel 13 Programming Analysis
For Schedule Dates: 1/1/2013 to 12/31/2013
Number of Different
Hours Played Number of Plays Programs Played
All Programming
First Run
533.90
700
700
Repeat
3815.75
5147
944
Total First Run and Repeat
4349.65
5847
965
By Origin
Other Local
First Run
4.47
7
7
Repeat
86.87
126
22
Total First Run and Repeat
91.33
133
22
PEGASYS
First Run
469.35
627
627
Repeat
3289.50
4466
802
Total First Run and Repeat
3758.85
5093
817
Satellite
First Run
13.00
2
2
Total First Run and Repeat
13.00
2
2
Syndicated
First Run
47.08
64
64
Repeat
439.38
555
120
Total First Run and Repeat
486.47
619
124
Time Warner Cable Syracuse Div.
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PEGASYS Equipment Usage By Group and Type
1/1/2013 to 12/31/2013
2/3/2014 3:27 PM,
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Number of Uses
Hours of Use
Dollar Value
Editing
Edit 3 Laptop
Adobe Premiere CS6 Editor Laptop
37
3,784.50
$7,893.76
Edit 4 Laptop
Adobe Premiere CS6 Editor Laptop
49
4,794.00
$14,993.83
Edit 5 Laptop
Adobe Premiere CS6 Editor Laptop
30
2,900.50
$9,081.30
Edit Station 1
Adobe Premiere CS6 Non - linear Editor
71
218.50
$10,925.00
Edit Station 2
Adobe Premiere CS6 Non - linear Editor
56
166.00
$8,300.00
Group Totals Editing
243
11,863.50
$51,193.89
Port Cam
Camcorder HF300
Canon VIXIA HFM300
25
3,009.00
$6,270.84
Camcorder X10
Sony DSR PDX10 Mini DVCam Camcorder
159
17,386.50
$50,685.78
Camcorder -HM100
JVC GY- HM1000 Memory Card Camcorder
8
615.50
$1,376.67
Group Totals Port Cam
192
21,011.00
$58,333.29
Studio
Studio 1
3- camera studio, 15x34'
270
547.50
$60,225.00
Studio 2
Ministudio
89
256.00
$28,160.00
Group Totals Studio
359
803.50
$88,385.00