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19 unusual facts about public-access television


Asheville Global Report

The organization currently produces radio programming and a television show, AGR TV, that is aired on Free Speech TV and Public-access television cable TV channels in Asheville, Atlanta, Boone, Chapel Hill and Raleigh.

Bob Shreve

Able to keep himself only intermittently busy with voice work and the occasional Public-access television interview, his health began to wane.

Cheer-Accident

In 1994, the group released The Why Album and helped start a local Chicago Public-access television show called Cool Clown Ground.

Cool In Your Code

Cool In Your Code is a television show on nyctv, New York City's Public-access television channel, as well as on sister station WNYE-TV.

Disco Step-by-Step

Taped during 1975 and 1976, the show was seen on local Public-access television cable TV channels in Buffalo and western New York State from January 1, 1977 to June 30, 1977; the program was shot in black and white, given the technology and equipment available to Cichy.

I Am the Fun Blame Monster!

The bonus material features 9 bonus tracks and rare footage of the band's appearances on Portland cable Public-access television program The Sista Social Show, a live performance at Portland's Meow-Meow and music videos for the album tracks "Trigga Hiccups" and "Cough Coughing".

Iann Robinson

Born in New York, Robinson co-hosted a show called Monkey Butt Sex on a Manhattan Public-access television cable TV in the 1990s.

KBEV

KBEV (TV), a student-run cable TV Public-access television channel in Beverly Hills, California, United States

Melony G. Griffith

Griffith also host a local Public-access television show entitled "Modern Mentors" for the town of District Heights, Maryland.

Nicholas Johnson

In 1972 Canadian filmmaker Red Burns, who'd served on the National Film Board of Canada (NFB)'s Challenge for Change and George C. Stoney, who'd likewise served a guest role, worked with Johnson to make the FCC Public-access television cable TV requirements.

Nokomis Regional High School

The Video Communications class, taught by Matt Brown operates Nokomis Warrior Broadcasting, a Public-access television cable TV channel on Time Warner Cable Channel 5.

Omaha Police Department

Omaha Police Officer Tariq Al-Amin, while hosting the Public-access television cable TV show Protecting the Village, angrily reacted, stating "This would be my gift to the Rucker children," while brandishing a straight razor.

Proclaim!

The St. John Gualbert Television Ministry dates back to 1988 when Deacon John Sroka pitched the idea of a live hour long mass and launched it on Public-access television in Johnstown.

Public-access television

Also, at that same time in New York City, Fred Friendly, head of the Cable TV and Communications Commission, made recommendations for a leased-access channel for public use.

Ron Kurtenbach

Kurtenbach is most well known for his long-running controversial Public-access television call-in show, Ron's World, that was seen nightly on local Lincoln cable TV.

Stephen M. Sweeney

The New Jersey State League of Municipalities has opposed the provisions on elimination of Public-access television channels and on rules requiring free Internet accessed for municipal and school facilities.

Student television station

Studio and production space is often provided by a community or local Public-access television stations.

The Mr. Science Show

The Mr. Science Show was a zany, lecture based science television program for children developed by Tim Perkins, which aired weekly in the 1990s on Time Warner Cable's Public-access television cable TV channel.

Zach Anner

While attending school, he obtained celebrity interviews through That's Awesome! a sketch comedy program on the university's local Public-access television cable TV channel called Texas Student TV K29HW-D.


2003 Staten Island Ferry crash

Mayor Michael Bloomberg promptly announced that the crash was an accident, allaying fears of a public still stunned by the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which killed a large number of Staten Island residents.

Alan Kreider

As a public speaker, Alan Kreider has taken part in a debate on the arms race with Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Cameron of Balhousie as part of the London Lectures on Contemporary Christianity at All Souls Church, Langham Place (1982) and with Lord Trefgarne, Edward Leigh MP, and Canon Paul Oestreicher, at the Cambridge Union Society (1983).

Athletic scholarship

In February 2012, a member of the Arizona House of Representatives proposed a bill named HB 2675 which would have required students attending a public university in the state of Arizona (Arizona State University, University of Arizona, or Northern Arizona University) to pay an additional $2,000 fee in order to attend one of the 3 universities.

Baltimore County Public Library

All branches provide public computer access and are Wi-Fi accessible.

Chaim Shemesh

In 2002 Shemesh joined the leading record company ‘NMC’ as a content VP, where he managed the company’s marketing and public relations and developed new business modules to the music industry (on-line music downloading web sites, artist management systems, etc.).

Charles Bird King

After the administration changed and McKenney left the BIA, the agency donated the Native American portrait collection to the National Institute, but shoddy care and displays kept it from the public eye.

De Havilland Gipsy Six

A preserved Gipsy Six engine is on public display at the Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden, Bedfordshire, another is on display at the Science Museum (London).

Dictator

Note that these definitions disregard some alleged dictators, e.g. Benito Mussolini, who are not interested in the actual achieving of social goals, as much as in propaganda and controlling public opinion.

Eugene R. McGrath

McGrath was a member of the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, the Development Advisory Council for the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the National Academy of Engineering, and the New York City Public/Private Initiatives.

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District

The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District is a public school district based in Fairbanks, Alaska (USA).

Frank Karel

He graduated from the University of Florida in 1961 and later received a master’s degree in public administration from New York University in 1983.

Fruitlands Museum

The property was purchased in 1910 by Clara Endicott Sears, who opened the farmhouse to the public in 1914 as a museum.

Humphry Berkeley

His studies were interrupted when he was excluded ('sent down') for two years as a result of a practical joke in which he impersonated 'H. Rochester Sneath', the headmaster of a rather odd public school, and wrote hoax letters to public figures.

Indecent exposure in the United States

In 1907, Annette Kellerman, an Australian swimmer, was arrested on a Boston beach for public indecency for wearing her trademark one-piece swimsuit.

Iron Seed

As progress on the development of the successor and further patching of Ironseed was unlikely the source code of Ironseed 1 released by the developers to the public under the GPL in March 2013.

James Skillen

In 2009, he signed a public statement encouraging all Christians to "read, wrestle with, and respond to Caritas in Veritate" the social encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI.

Jick

Andy Jick, public address announcer for the Boston College Eagles

John Wieners

At the Guggenheim Museum in 1999, Wieners gave one of his last public readings, celebrating an exhibit by the painter Francesco Clemente.

Jones/Ginzel

Current and recent major works include the Visual Arts Complex at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Hoboken Ferry Terminal in New Jersey, the Tiber River in Rome, and public buildings in Florida and Utah.

Kalisha Buckhanon

She found author Toni Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye at Kankakee Public Library and became empowered to write from a Black female perspective.

Leonis C. Malburg

As mayor, Malburg has been credited with overseeing the successful implementation of public policy that led the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation to name Vernon the "Most Business-friendly City" in L.A. County.

Lewis A. Coser

In contrast, the non-coincidence of economic and political disenfranchisement among Quebecers reduces somewhat the severity of their conflict with English Canada, especially with the rising prosperity of the French Canadian new middle class operating in the public sector and corporate world.

Loiter

Loitering, in law, the act of remaining in a particular public place for a protracted time

Marcelo Ebrard

The city's chief of police, Marcelo Ebrard, and the Federal Secretary of Public Safety, Ramón Huerta, were both accused of not organizing a timely rescue effort when three undercover federal police officers were lynched by a mob in one of the capital's most impoverished suburbs in Tláhuac on November 23, 2004.

Maurice Canning Wilks

His works are in public collections throughout the world including the Ulster Museum, Armagh County Museum, the Ulster Folk and Transportation Museum, the Office of Public Works in Dublin and the Limerick City Art Gallery.

Mersey Chambers

It fronts St. Nicholas' churchyard, which was laid out as a public garden in 1891 in memory of James Harrison, a partner in the company.

Metal Marines

He was educated in public schools and attended the General H. Norman Schwarzkopf Academy of Military Sciences.

Mikhail Turovsky

Mikhail Turovsky's work is represented in permanent collections of the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Yad Vashem Memorial Art Museum in Jerusalem, the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in New York, and the Notre Dame University Art Museum in Indiana, as well as many public and private collections.

Moapa Valley High School

Moapa Valley High School is a small 3A empowered public high school in Clark County, Nevada, United States Of America, located in Moapa Valley in the city of Overton, Nevada, being part of Clark County School District (CCSD).

National Indigenous Television

The review was headed up by retired senior public servant Neville Stevens with the assistance of Expert Panel members Laurie Patton and Kerrynne Liddle.

Nude recreation

He undertook his walk as a protest, in order to celebrate the naked human form, and to try to convince the public to stop being paranoid about the naked body.

Philip Nitschke

He was detained for an hour for questioning on arrival at Auckland Airport in New Zealand on a trip to hold public meetings and launch the kit.

Pledge drive

Although the federal government of the United States, primarily through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), and corporate underwriting provide some money for public broadcasting organizations like National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), they are largely dependent on program fees paid by their member stations.

Religion in Mexico

However, Christmas is a national holiday and every year during Easter and Christmas all schools in Mexico, public and private, send their students on vacation.

Rolvenden

The mill, which is privately owned and does not open to the public, stands on a little hill and was featured in the Tommy Steele film "Half a Sixpence".

Simon Perry

Perry's major public commissions include Threaded Field, Docklands Stadium, Melbourne (1999-2000), On Tap, Caroline Springs, Melbourne (2007), and the much loved Public Purse (1994).

Softeks V-24 Lastochka

The first flight took place on 20 November 2012 and the Lastochka was first demonstrated in public at the SP Korolyov Aviation Meeting, held from 17-20 Jane 2010 at Smokovka airport, Zhytomyr.

Sökarna

The Swedish hip-hop group Infinite Mass gained public attention after their appearance in the movie with their controversial song "Area Turns Red", also known as "Shoot the Racist".

Stoogemania

Only four shorts are shown throughout the film, all of which are in the public domain: Sing a Song of Six Pants, Malice in the Palace, Brideless Groom, and Disorder in the Court.

Susan Wefald

She was appointed to the Public Service Commission in 1993 by Governor Ed Schafer to complete the term by Dale V. Sandstrom, who resigned.

Ten-Day War

However, the incident sparked renewed public debate after the footage was shown on Serbian TV station B92 in 2006, with many claiming that the soldiers were shot and killed by Slovenian TO troops and that Slovenia is trying to cover up the affair.

The Big Give

Donations from the public were doubled by a number of sponsors, including Arts & Business, Reed Specialist Recruitment, Reed Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Candis Magazine and Ethiopiaid.

The Fallbrook Story

At the time film director Frank Capra served on the Board of the local water agency, the Fallbrook Public Utilities District ("FPUD").

Thomas H. Seymour

Born in Hartford, Connecticut to Major Henry Seymour and Jane Ellery, Seymour was sent to public schools as a child and graduated from Middletown Military Academy in Middletown, Connecticut in 1829.

UCL Institute of Archaeology

Amongst the staff who work there are noted archaeologists such as Mark Roberts, who directed the Boxgrove Quarry project, Late Prehistory specialist Sue Hamilton, Mediaeval specialist Andrew Reynolds, Public Archaeology specialist Tim Schadla-Hall and Caribbean archaeologist José Oliver.

United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy and Global Women's Issues

This includes the general oversight responsibility for the U.S. State Department, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the U.S. Foreign Service, and public diplomacy and United States participation in the United Nations, its affiliated organizations, and other international organizations not under the jurisdiction of other subcommittees.

W.N. Flynt Granite Co.

Many public buildings in Monson and the surrounding communities were constructed of Flynt granite, but the quarry also shipped granite for buildings in Boston, New York, Chicago, and even as far as Kansas and Iowa.

Willie Morris

One of Morris' books, Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood was made into a TV movie for Public Television by Disney and PBS Wonderworks and later re-titled The River Pirates in 1988 not far from where Morris lived.It starred Richard Farnsworth, Maureen O'Sullivan, Dixie Wade, Ryan Francis, Caryn West and Richard E. Council.

XIV International AIDS Conference, 2002

The International AIDS Society selected this theme to emphasize the need for the general community and public and private sector organizations, scientists, and social workers to commit to use the knowledge gained through science and experience take action.

Yorkville High School

Yorkville High School, or YHS, is a public four-year high school located in Yorkville, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.