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- Subject: Re: On Late Night TV!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.221143.645@news.wesleyan.edu>
- From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
- Date: 21 Jan 93 22:11:41 EDT
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- In <C182ME.M5K@news.cso.uiuc.edu> schlumpf@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu writes:
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- > I don't think I was dreaming! ;) But over the weekend I was watching
- > TV late at night and I saw an ad put out by AKC. The ad basically
- > <ad described>
- > Anyone else seen AKC commercials lately????
-
- Yes, I have seen that one before (not recently, though). It is given to local
- TV stations to run as a "public service announcement" at no charge to the AKC
- (that's why its late at night). Most stations wouldn't be caught dead running
- a free public service announcement during prime daytime hours when they can
- sell 15-second time slices for megabucks. :-) Check out the other late-night
- public service ads (like from the USAdvertising Council). You'll never see
- them on during the day either. Stations only run these to meet the FCC
- requirements for community/public service programming. :-)
-
- However (suggestion for those with time to kill) -- many Cable Operators
- provide facilities for "Public Access Programming", including studios,
- equipment, and training for those members of the public who want to use them.
- You -- or your local breed club, or whatever -- can produce programming on
- (e.g.) responsible dog ownership; training issues; canine health; humane
- society orphans awaiting adoption, etc., and show it on your local Public
- Access Cable TV station. <The same station that many of the religious groups
- show their non-professionally produced programming on, or that smaller
- communities sometimes televise their school board meetings, etc., on, or that
- community colleges sometimes show educational classes on.>
-
- If you really have some time & some other folks who are interested, it can be
- kinda fun to learn how to operate all the videocam's, editing & splicing
- machines, scripted voiceovers, music dubs, etc., and to produce your own TV
- show. It only takes a couple of hours to learn to use the equipment,
- especially if the cable operator has a helpful & knowledgeable technician
- helping you out.
-
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- Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
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