Explore the anarchic early days of public access television in NYC with this mesmerizing archival documentary produced by Benny Safdie and Steve Buscemi.

From porn to LGBTQ visibility and various other empowered marginalized voices, David Shadrack Smith's Sundance entry covers a tumultuous chapter of media.

Denver Open Media is celebrating its fourth anniversary tonight. It’s a unique organization in that their public access TV station does not get much of anything from the city of Denver. The government ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authenticity may be “dangerous and expensive,” per Tina Fey, for those itching to bask in the harsh spotlight of mainstream ...

In December the Atlanta City Council did something increasingly rare among local governments: It reinvested in public access television. By approving nearly $1.6 million in funding over three years to ...

It's also a strikingly relevant look at the making of our modern world. As a "born and bred New Yorker," Smith grew up with the bold, raucous, unpredictable, sometimes beautiful and sometimes ugly ...

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The courtroom was the scene of a hearing Wednesday where Akakū public media stated its case before Judge Kelsey Kawano. Also on hand were lawyers for Spectrum Cable, the state Department of Commerce ...

Picture this: You’re a 16-year-old in New Haven. It’s midnight on a Friday. You’re flipping through the channels on the TV in your grandma’s basement. 26, 27, 28 … wait, what? You flip back to channel ...

FAYETTEVILLE — Like so much of public access television’s more than 30-year history in Fayetteville, an event held Thursday at the Cosmopolitan Hotel didn’t go off without a bit of improvisation and ...

In an unexpected and somewhat confusing vote, the City Council split Wednesday and refused to renew the contract for embattled public-access channel Houston MediaSource. After months of delay and ...