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

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 ...

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 ...

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WEST FARGO — Leaders of a civic engagement organization are urging West Fargo leaders to reconsider their March 17 decision not to renew the use of a public access channel on local cable. As part of a ...

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

The number of channels and rate of funding for New York City’s thriving public access TV scene could be made the same as that for the rest of the country if a massive telecommunications overhaul now ...

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 ...

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 ...

HUNTER-If all goes according to plan, students and the general public in the greater Hunter-Tannersville area will soon be able to utilize their local cable television's public access channel for ...

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 ...