MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY TELEVISION! MARCH 13, 2015

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Yesterday In 1985 when Middlebury

Community Television was formed, its founders had a straightforward objective: contribute to creating an informed and engaged citizenry. In essence, hold a mirror up to the community.

TodayIn 2015, MCTV’s mission remains

unchanged. But the media landscape has changed dramatically over the past 30 years and MCTV must adapt to these new conditions.

TomorrowDo you have an idea for a

program or an issue for public discussion you would like to see on MCTV? Call or visit to find out how to produce your own television show. We train children to adults how to do it, and we’d love to help you make your idea a reality.

-Dick Thodal Executive Director MCTV

We are YOUR community television station. You can find us on Cable Channels 15 & 16 and on the web at www.middleburycommunitytv.org, or visit us on the 3rd floor of the Ilsley Public Library

We are a nonprofit, interactive, community-based alternative to broadcast commercial and public TV.

We cover local meetings and events, offer residents free equipment and training to produce their own programs, and provide free cable television

channel time and an Internet platform to exhibit programs, announce local events and celebrate our First Amendment rights to free speech.

We serve Comcast subscribers in the Middlebury area on Channels 15 & 16 and on the web, www.middleburycommunitytv.org.

OUR PAST OUR FUTURE

Public, Educational, and Governmental Access for Middlebury, VT

To the Left- Dick Thodal MCTV Executive Director, Joseph Watson Volunteer Producer, former Governor Howard Dean & Betty Nuovo, who has interviewed hundreds of Vermonters since the early 90’s on her program “Issues for an Informed Public.” Photo circa 1997

To the Right: Fifty children attended MCTV-Ilsley Video Camps in 2013 in addition to over two hundred after school visits. Another forty children participated in the annual Mary Hogan School Read-a-thon video.

Who are we?

MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY TELEVISION! MARCH 13, 2015

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To serve the community, we must continue to evolve into a 21st century community media and resource center.  

1. Today, digital literacy is essential to a community’s well-being. We must expand our programs with schools, the library, town government, and the community to reach that goal.

2. We must continue to encourage and support programs that reflect the diversity and interests of our community. In this digital era when anyone can produce a video, we have a vital role in distributing material of community interest.

3. MCTV & Ilsley jointly fund a technology coordinator, who works closely with the children’s librarian and schools in offering video training. Working with the library, we created a community production studio on the second floor. This collaboration is unique among community television stations.

4. A 21st century communications infrastructure is also essential to a community’s vitality. As community facilities change and expand, we must ensure that meeting spaces meet the transmission needs of the Internet age.

5. As production and distribution changes, so may our funding. Since its inception, community television has been almost entirely supported by a fee charged to cable companies, such as Comcast, for their use of public airwaves. At present, there are no provisions for community television to receive funding from Internet transmission programs. We must explore new funding sources - membership, fund raising, corporate sponsors, Internet transmission fees, greater town budget support.

WHAT WILL YOU FIND ON MCTV?

Contact Us:

802-388-3062

PO Box 785, Middlebury, VTinfo@middleburycommunitytv.org

Top: MCTV and Ilsley Public Library have a long & successful working relationship.

Bottom: The new Digital Media Lab is a joint Ilsley/MCTV recording studio on the 2nd floor of the library.

ALL THAT’S MISSING IS YOU!Stop by our studio to visit, take a tour, or see a show being

filmed. Make sure to check out the new Digital Media Lab, located on the 2nd floor of the Ilsley Public Library.

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