Congratulations to the winners of the Northwest Region’s 2019 “Best of the Northwest Awards”! The Best of the Northwest Awards honors outstanding programs produced by community media/PEG (public, educational, government) access TV and other non-commercial media in the Northwest Region (Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) of the ACM.  The 2019 winners are:

Community Involvement/Empowerment/ Making a Difference

Winner:

Our Voice, Our World, Our Future

Honorable Mention:

Poor People’s Campaign Kicks off in Olympia

 

Democracy in Action

Winner:

Pasco League of Women Voters Candidate Forum, October 17, 2018

Honorable Mention:

Pasco City Council Workshop, May 29, 2018

 

Documentary

Winner:

Escape from Eagle Creek

Honorable Mention:

Behind Bars – The Making of Letters & Numbers

 

Experimental/Artistic/Abstract

Winner:

Time-Lapse Experiments

 

Forums and Events

Winner:

Mister Gresham: Todd Kirnan

Honorable Mention:

Clackamas County Participates in Pride NW Festival and Parade

 

Informative Feature

Winner:

Santa’s Holiday Cookies         

Honorable Mention:

Behind the Blade

 

Inspirational and Religious

Winner:

Cha Cha the Clown Show

Honorable Mention:

Rex’s Recovery

 

Instructional, Training, and Educational

Winner:

I Am Native

Honorable Mention:

Take Action!

 

Local Performance

Winner:

SPARKY by molly BANG          

Honorable Mention:

SLAM Living Room Sessions – Rebecca McDade

 

Produced by Youth

Winner:

Youth Production: The Oddity

Honorable Mention:

East Metro STEAM Partnership Promo

 

PSAs, Promos, and Station IDs

Winner (Tie):

2019 WFMC

CCTV Volunteer & Producer Party PSA

Honorable Mention (Tie):

Seattle Public Schools Open Enrollment

KPU 30 Second Advertisement

 

Shorts

Winner:

Doomed to Repeat

Honorable Mention:

Rescue 3

 

Shows for Children

Winner:

Flyers – or How the Wright Brothers Invented the Airplane

Honorable Mention:

Passport to Nature     

 

Sports

Winner:

The Body*Smith Workout

Honorable Mention:

Mt. Hood Conference Basketball

 

Talk Show

Winner:

The Small Interview with Glamour Dave – Pilot Episode

Honorable Mention:

Behind the Curtain: Charlotte’s Web

 

Overall Excellence in PEG or Community Media Programming

Winner (Tie):

KPUtv Overall Excellence 2018

TCMedia Overall Excellence 2018

Honorable Mention:

CCTV 2018 Overall Excellence

 

Thank you to the judges from around the country who made the hard choices on just what programs were the Best of the Northwest!  Award plaques and Honorable Mention certificates will be sent in the coming weeks.  Thanks to all that submitted programs to the contest!

The 2019 Best of the Northwest Awards are open for your entries!

The Best of the Northwest Awards is a chance for you to showcase exceptional media programs. This prestigious awards contest honors outstanding programs produced by community media/PEG (public, educational, government) access TV and other non-commercial media in the Northwest region (Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming) of the Alliance for Community Media.

This contest is looking for programs that you take pride in! Programs that people watched and appreciated, that made a difference in your community, and demonstrated all that community access has to offer.

For over 20 years, Best of the Northwest has supported programs that are made on a local level. With your entry, you’ll be joining a group of the Northwest’s most successful community and local access producers. You’ll also be supporting the Alliance for Community Media, an organization which works to preserve community access for future generations.

Entries will be judged at community media centers outside of the Northwest Region.

Best of the Northwest grants awards in eighteen categories, as well as our highest award for Overall Excellence in P.E.G. Programming. Award winners are presented with a plaque for their outstanding program!

Awards will be presented at the 2019 NW Media Summit on April 13, 2019. Entries are due by February 28.

https://filmfreeway.com/BestoftheNorthwestAwards

From the national Alliance for Community Media:

Summary: The FCC has issued a Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making on Cable Franchising (https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-seeks-comment-lfas-regulation-cable-operators). There will be public comment and reply deadlines this Fall. The FCC may issue a ruling in 2019.

Impact on communities and PEG: The FCC is proposing to rule that all “In-Kind” cable franchise obligations other than PEG capital costs and build-out requirements are a “franchise fee” under the Cable Act and thus count against the 5% franchise fee cap. The FCC would define “In-Kind” contributions so broadly as to undermine the Cable Act’s intent to provide franchise fees to communities for use of public rights of way. Any non-monetary benefit could conceivably be charged back against franchise fees – from backhaul services, to electronic program guides, to the value of PEG channel capacity itself. The charge backs would be at fair market value as determined by the cable industry, so we believe in some areas franchise fees might be eliminated in their entirety.

Action: ACM will coordinate legal responses to the FNPRM and will work with national allies in the rulemaking. We will provide instructions to guide your communities so you can reply to the proceeding when deadlines are published.

You should do two things in this proceeding: You should set aside time to prepare comments later this fall about the importance of your work to the community. And you should contact political leaders at the local, state and federal level (on both sides of the aisle) to express their displeasure to the FCC at this action to undermine the Cable Act. We can supply materials to help with this action as well.

More info at: http://www.allcommunitymedia.org/latest-news/acm-public-policy-action-update-sept-2018 

Recorded live at the “Access The Future” Summit held at the end of April in Portland, the Radio Survivor podcast was a great event.  From the Radio Survivor site:

Our first live episode might just blow your mind. Recorded at the Alliance for Community Media Northwest Summit, it’s time to break down barriers between media platforms. That’s we’re tackling podcasting and virtual reality, and how they relate to social justice and equity. Our guests are writer, artist, teacher and activist Reagan Jackson and Sandy …

Source: Podcast #140 – From Podcasting to Virtual Reality, with Reagan Jackson and Sandy Cioffi

The ACMNWR held its 2018 Best of the Northwest Awards ceremony at OpenSignal in Portland, Oregon on April 28 as part the Region’s “Access the Future” summit.  Hosted by Greg Marks, the awards honored 18 winners of this year’s “Best of the Northwest”.

Watch the ceremony via YouTube:

The winners are:

I’m Still Inside
PSAs, Promos, and Station IDs

The Women’s March on Olympia
Democracy in Action

The Unknown
Produced by Youth

Storytime with Miss Bethany
Webisodes

Cooper Slug
Experimental/Artistic/Abstract

On the Road – the Olympic Discovery Trail
Documentary

On the Road – the Olympic Discovery Trail
Informative Feature

Oregon City State of the City 2017
Forums and Events

Holiday Showcase
Local Performance

Community Hotline – 1000th Episode
Studio Talk Show

Tucker Maxon School
Shorts

Rest, Not Arrest
Community Involvement/Empowerment/ Making a Difference

2017 OSAA 6A Basketball State Championship – Clackamas v Jefferson
Sports

Hideaway
Non-English Programming

Just Kidding Around
Shows for Children

The Naz
Inspirational and Religious

The Decision
Instructional, Training, and Educational

Clackamas County Overall Programming Excellence
Capital Community Television Overall Excellence
(tie)
Overall Excellence in Public, Educational, or Government Access Programming

The ACMNWR board thanks our main ceremony sponsor, Castus; also OpenSignal for providing their facility and staff for the ceremony, the judges for selecting the winners out of many entries, Truckee Tahoe Community Television for producing the clip reel, and all the community media producers for all their great entries!

The ACM Northwest Region thanks all of our sponsors for their strong support of the Region and Community Media.  Be sure to visit and thank them at the Access the Future Summit April 27-28 at OpenSignal in Portland!

Presenting Sponsor:

CASTUS provides flexible scheduling systems and on demand streaming servers for community media centers.  Our thanks to Castus for their long-time support of the Northwest Region!  Check out Castus here.

Partnering Sponsor:

Comrex designs and builds equipment that uses the most advanced available technology to connect broadcasters with their audiences. They strive to build reliable, user-friendly tools that engineers can trust to work, even during complicated broadcasts. Thanks to Comrex for their support!  Check them out here.

Summit Sponsor:

Tightrope Media Systems provides industry leading media delivery systems for Digital Broadcast and Digital Signage.  Work around the clock and around the globe connecting you to your audiences, so you can focus on telling your story.  Tightrope has been another long-time supporter of community media throughout the nation.  Find out more about Tightrope here.

Summit Sponsor:

Media Control Systems specializes in television automation products and systems for program recording, playback, and ad insertion.  Media Control Systems (MCS) manufactures its own brand of products and also resells and integrates other TV automation related products.  Thanks to MCS for their help for the Region’s summit! More information on MCS can be found here.

Thanks again to our sponsors; their support keeps registration costs low for our attendees.

The ACMNWR’s Regional Summit “Access the Future“, coming up April 27-28 in Portland, is able to keep registration fees low due, in part, to our generous sponsors.

The Regional Board thanks another of our sponsors, Tightrope Media Systems, for their many years of support of community media and the Northwest Region!  Show your appreciation by thanking Tightrope at the Summit.

Thank you Tightrope!

The ACMNWR’s Regional Summit “Access the Future“, coming up April 27-28 in Portland, is able to keep registration fees low due, in part, to our generous sponsors.

The Regional Board thanks one of our Partnering Sponsors, Comrex, for their support of community media and the Region!  Be sure thank Comrex for their support when you’re at the Summit.

 

Thank you Comrex!

The ACMNWR’s Regional Summit “Access the Future“, coming up April 27-28 in Portland, is able to keep registration fees low due, in part, to our generous sponsors.

The Regional Board first thanks our Presenting Sponsor, Castus, for their support of community media and the Region for the last several years!  Be sure to stop at the Castus display at the Summit and thank them for their support. Thank you Castus!

CASTUS is a Northwest company serving Northwest communities

CASTUS provides streaming solutions and scalable playout servers that are unbeatable in features and price. We are known for our customer-centric approach. Our focus is and has always been on our customers and their needs. As their needs have grown, so have we, creating products that make life easier and better for them. Check out everything we have to offer, from Web Streaming and VOD solutions, to our HD/SD IP servers, and you will see why we have become the system of choice for the PEG community.