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Home My WebLink AboutMN-CABLE-2015-02-02 1 City of Ithaca Access Oversight Committee (AOC) minutes Monday, March 2, 2015, 4:30 PM Present: chair Rich DePaolo, AOC members Wayles Browne, vice-chair Wies van Leuken, Michael Brutvan; studio manager Lauren Stefanelli. Excused: Liaison from Common Council (City of Ithaca) J.R. Clairborne. 01. Call to Order: 4:50 by DePaolo. 02. Agenda Additions and/or Deletions: none. 03. Public Comments: none. 04. Approval Minutes of the November 3, 2014 Meeting: approved without change, 4-0. 05. Access Studio Coordinator Report: presented in writing. Note that the General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will, as in most earlier years though not last year, be carried live from Salt Lake City April 4 and 5, via an internet link to Syracuse. Discussion of live streaming: if the Government channel can do it, Public Access and Educational Access ought to be able to also. a. Annual Subscriber Fee Report ($0.15/Subscriber/Month Revenues): for next meeting. b. Maintenance and Repair Report: report attached. c. Semi-Annual Usage Fees Report showing 2014 receipts & uses (fees paid by producers from non-participating communities): needs to be checked; for next meeting. d. Annual Equipment Purchase Report: submitted at the September, 2014 meeting. e. Recommendations for 2015 Budget: See Attachment 4. We'll start with the Studio’s renovations and then add computers and other studio equipment later, after consulting with Jim Blizzard and Mike Brutvan. f. Recommendations for Facility Improvements: DePaolo: because this renovation contract is carried out with public money TWC needs to obtain 3 quotes and not just 1 for the building work (in Attachment 4). The AOC needs to see the actual quotes, not just a summary. Stefanelli should do this before the next meeting. Note spelling Leigh, not Lee. 06. Member Reports a. Election of Chairperson, Vice Chairperson and Secretary. The present officers were re- elected unanimously: Rich DePaolo, chair; Wies van Leuken, vice chair; Wayles Browne, secretary. b. Adoption of Meeting Schedule for 2015: the first Monday of each month. c. Review and award of funding to Educational Institutions: letter was sent out as in Attachment 3, no replies received as of March 2. d. AOC's 2013 Equipment Purchase Report to City: this was submitted with the September, 2014 minutes. e. 2014 Franchise Fee Reports from City, Town and Village – tabled for next meeting. 2 07. Old Business a. Franchise Agreement. DePaolo: Time Warner Cable has not yet gotten back to the Tompkins County Council of Governments negotiators about the draft franchise presented to TWC in November. 08. New Business: none. 09. Next meeting: Monday, April 6, 4:30 p.m. 10. Adjournment 6:10. 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 2014-5 <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> 3 March 2015 Access Studio Coordinator Report - Facility Usage Report 2014  Attached are facility and channel 13 usage reports for PEGASYS in 2014 [Attachments 1 and 2]. Notable is the degree to which editing is shifting from the desktop computers to the laptops, especially the 2 high-speed laptops, mainly because they handle HD video better. - Channel 15 on-Screen Guide Update The problem with the labelling of channel 15 on our on-screen guide as “Data Not Available” has been corrected. It now reads “Government Access.” - Equipment and Facility Maintenance and Repair  New Entranceway: progress has been halted for the winter. The old entryway is securely blocked; people have had no problem finding the new entrance, which has no ice issue.  One of our JVC cameras has a wobbly LCD viewfinder and has been sent out for repair. All the JVC cameras have fold-out viewfinders with menu and selector buttons, which means they may all get wobbly over time and we need to know how to address it. - Public Access Producer News  The Tompkins County SPCA is working with me on a new magazine-format show, “Meet Me at the SPCA.” 8 SPCA staff & volunteers are participating. Show #2 premiered this weekend.  A second Ithaca WRFI radio producer, Bill Chaisson, has started simulcasting his weekly talk show, “Land and People,” on channel 13 from 4-5pm on Thursdays. - PEGASYS Awards  We have 29 entrants; and judging was completed on 3/1. Our awards ceremony is scheduled for Friday March 27. AOC members are cordially invited to attend. Thanks to AOC member Mike Brutvan for serving as a judge! One of our other judges is Mike Blegen, the A/V instructor at BOCES, who has promised to start submitting his students’ work to channel 16 soon. - Institutional Access  County video tech Jim Blizzard successfully tested his video encoder, sending video signals over the internet from the library and other county buildings, and his house, back to an IP receiver in the courthouse. This enables him to go live from anywhere there is web access.  I sent out letters to our E and G institutions inviting them to submit equipment funding requests for 2016. [Attachment 3]. 2015 Equipment and Facilities Fund  David Whalen responded to AOC requests made last October/November. He said that PEG channel live-streaming, a TWC-linked website and web archiving, are web related and not PEG under the definition and therefore can not be considered. Building painting/carpeting is approved and included in the 2015 spending plan [Attachment 4]. Giving channel 13 stereo audio, has been approved in concept and given to our video engineer to research. This will take some time, since true stereo would require Left and Right channels to stay separate all through the audio chain. I hope to include it in next year’s spending plan. About PEG on-screen guide inclusion, David Whalen referred the AOC to Stephanie Sperry, Channel Lineup Editor at Gracenote. Her contact is 800-424-4747 x4286; sperry@gracenote.com. I have left voice and email messages for her for further information. 4 Attachment 1 Time Warner Cable Syracuse Div. 3/1/2015 5:30 PM, Page 1 PEGASYS Channel 13 Programming Analysis For Schedule Dates: 1/1/2014 to 12/31/2014 Number of Different Hours Played Number of Plays Programs Played All Programming First Run 610.57 815 815 Repeat 3677.68 5445 1000 Total First Run and Repeat 4288.25 6260 1146 By Origin Other Local First Run 14.95 27 27 Repeat 128.85 265 38 Total First Run and Repeat 143.80 292 46 PEGASYS First Run 368.62 546 546 Repeat 3133.33 4574 753 Total First Run and Repeat 3501.95 5120 782 Syndicated First Run 227.00 242 242 Repeat 415.50 606 209 Total First Run and Repeat 642.50 848 318 5 Attachment 2 Time Warner Cable Syracuse Div. 3/1/2015 3:45 PM, Page 1 PEGASYS Equipment Usage By Group and Type 1/1/2014 to 1/1/2015 Number of Uses Hours of Use Dollar Value Editing Edit 3 Laptop Adobe Premiere CS6 Editor Laptop 32 4,295.00 $8,956.28 Edit 4 Laptop Adobe Premiere CS6 Editor Laptop 46 4,348.50 $13,593.82 Edit 5 Laptop Adobe Premiere CS6 Editor Laptop 44 3,692.08 $11,553.17 Edit Station 1 Adobe Premiere CS6 Non-linear Editor 21 75.00 $3,750.00 Edit Station 2 Adobe Premiere CS6 Non-linear Editor 31 97.50 $4,875.00 Group Totals Editing 174 12,508.08 $42,728.27 Port Cam Camcorder GoPro Gopro Hero3+ 8 758.00 $948.75 Camcorder GY150 JVC GY-HM100/150U SD Card Camcorder 81 4,324.00 $12,608.59 Camcorder NX5 Sony HXR-NX5U AVCHD Camcorder 12 790.50 $2,307.06 Camcorder X10 Sony DSR PDX10 Mini DVCam Camcorder 103 10,439.50 $30,426.80 Group Totals Port Cam 204 16,312.00 $46,291.20 Studio Studio 1 3-camera studio, 15x34' 218 501.00 $55,110.00 Studio 2 Ministudio 56 183.50 $20,185.00 Group Totals Studio 274 684.50 $75,295.00 6 Attachment 3 February 25, 2015 Dear Educational and Governmental Institution Representative, PEGASYS, the Public, Educational and Governmental Access Television System of Time Warner Cable, invites you consider using the educational access TV channel, channel 16, and the government access channel 15, for programming representing your institution. To assist you in this endeavor, we are able to offer technical assistance and equipment funding. For more information about this opportunity, please contact me at any of the contacts listed below. Technical assistance is available at any time. Equipment funding is also available. Equipment is placed on long-term loan at institutions on a contract basis, which requires the equipment be used to produce access programming or be returned. Applications for monies to be spent in 2016 are being accepted through April 2015. Cordially, Lauren Stefanelli PEGASYS Coordinator Mail: 519 W. State St. Ithaca, NY 14850 Email: lauren.stefanelli@twcable.com Telephone: 607-272-7272 607-272-7875 x. 48784 Studio location: 612 W. Green St. Ithaca, NY 7 Attachment 4