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Home My WebLink AboutICTC-Agenda-and-Packet-2016-09-26.pdf AGENDA IOWA CITY TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION CITY CABLE TV OFFICE, 10 S. LINN ST., TOWER PLACE PARKING FACILITY, LEVEL 3A SEPTEMBER 26, 2016, 5:30PM 1. Call to order 2. Election of officers 3. Approval of minutes 4. Announcements of Commissioners 5. Short public announcements 6. REPORTS Consumer Issues Mediacom Report not including litigation Local Access Reports City Cable TV Office Report 7. Adjournment DRAFT MINUTES Iowa City Telecommunications Commission August 29, 2016 – 5:30 P.M. City of Iowa City Cable TV Office, 10 S. Linn St. Tower Place, LEVEL 3A Call to Order:Meeting called to order at 5:30 P.M. Members Present:Alexa Homewood, Nick Kilburg, Laura Bergus, Derek Johnk, Paul Gowder Members Absent:None Staff Present:Ty Coleman Others Present:Gerardo Sandoval, Bond Drager Recommendations to Council : NONE Approval of Minutes: Kilburg moved and Johnk seconded a motion to approve the July 25, 2016 minutes as presented. The motion passed unanimously. Announcements of Commissioners: Homewood announced that she would be stepping down from her position with the Telecommunications Commission for personal reasons. Homewood noted that her time with the Commission had been an enjoyable experience. The Commission expressed its appreciation for Homewood’s contributions. Short Public Announcements: None Consumer Issues: No discussion Mediacom Report not including litigation: No report was received from Mediacom. Johnk noted the recent news in the media regarding the litigation, though no specifics were discussed. Johnk questioned whether it would be permissible for the Commission to discuss any possible, additional Internet service providers in the Iowa City area. Coleman said he would inquire about this with the City. Local Access Reports: Sandoval stated that this was his first time submitting a quarterly report for Public Access Television (PATV). He noted that he had discussed the quarterly reports with Coleman 1 DRAFT and that he would be happy to provide more information, based on PATV’s contract with the City, as requested by the Commission. City Cable TV Office Report: Coleman noted that the Cable TV Office’s production activities were transitioning from many summertime concerts and events to more lectures, presentations, and forums. Coleman said that some series programming, produced with organizations such as the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council and the State Historical Society of Iowa, would be starting up again. Coleman also mentioned that the Cable TV Office had recently been contacted by the Iowa City Noon Rotary Club to record some of its upcoming programming, noting that this was an organization whose public programs had not been covered in the last several years. Coleman reported that the City recently hired Jack Brooks into the role of Special Projects Assistant within the Cable TV Office. Coleman said that Brooks hit the ground running and has been doing great work that is strengthening the Cable TV Office’s support of the City’s Communications Office and its efforts. Adjournment: Johnk moved and Homewood seconded a motion to adjourn. The motion passed unanimously. Adjournment was at 5:39 p.m. 2 PATV Report to Iowa City Telecommunications Commission September 2016 September has seen new member productions, new member activity and new member shows. From a dance organization, InterDance, to a local singer singer writer videos. We have been hard at work reconnecting with our local community organizations and local schools. PATV staff had the opportunity to help set-up City High’s TV Studio and also train City High teachers on how to use the equipment. PATV Board Meetings PATV Board of Directors next meeting October 20th at 6 pm. Intro Workshop Guidelines orientation is the ﬁrst Thursday of every month, 6 pm at PATV. Next Guidelines is Thursday, October 6th at 6 PM. Video Workshops Schedule Studio Training – The second Tuesday of the month from 5 – 7 pm. HD Camera – The third Thursday of the month from 6 –8 pm. Digital Editing – The fourth Thursday of the month from 6 - 8 pm. Current and upcoming staff supported productions In Your Neighborhood – Latino Fest The Joseph Dobrian Show Hello it’s us GreenFire The LyleStyle Show PATV Presents: Thursday Night Live at Uptown Bills Tom’s Guitar Show Time for truth Submitted by Gerardo Sandoval 9/21/16 206 Lafayette St. • Iowa City, Iowa 52240 • Phone 338-7035 Fax 338-8456 • contact@patv.tv • http://www.patv.tv The Library Channel Report prepared for the Iowa City Telecommunications Commission monthly meeting by Beth Fisher, Program Librarian and Bond Drager, Equipment Specialist. September 2016 The Library Channel September Update: The 2016 International Authors series with the UI International Writing Program has begun, and events are being broadcast live Fridays at noon through October. We broadcast two programs as part of the lead-up to the Jingle Cross/Cyclo-Cross World Cup happening the weekend of Sept. 23rd. The first event was with UI Professor Steve McGuire called “How to Build a Bike.” The presentation was about fabrication and design of bicycles and the intersection of engineering and art. The second program was an introduction to Jingle Cross and the Cyclo-cross World Cup presented by Dr. John Meehan, Race Director, and included a special guest, a participant in this year’s race. Special children’s programming this month have included a shadow puppet program from local storyteller Darrin Crow and a tribute to Shakespeare’s First Folio from The Forking Queen. Monthly Program Update: This month: September 2016 Next Month: October 2016 Live Children’s Programs ·2 ·7 Live Children’s Special Events ·· Live Adult Programs ·7 ·6 Programs Cablecast ·659 · Programs videotaped by Govt. Channel/CTS ·1 ·1 Date: September 23, 2016 To: The Iowa City Telecommunications Commission From: Ty Coleman, Media Production Services Coordinator, City of Iowa City Cable TV Office Re: City of Iowa City Cable TV Office report for the September 2016 ICTC meeting Media Production Services Recent production activities: ●Recorded 5 Iowa City Foreign Relations Council lectures. Topics included Chinese political culture and celebrating the City of Literature. ●Recorded 3 Iowa City Noon Rotary Club meetings including remarks by Mayor Jim Throgmorton. ●Covered the end of the Summer of the Arts’ Friday Night Concert Series season with performances by Shade of Blue and Christopher the Conquered. ●Covered the 20162017 campaign kickoff for the United Way of Johnson and Washington Counties. ●Recorded the kickoff for the State Historical Society of Iowa’s History for Lunch series. ●Recorded 3 Market Music performances by bands such as the Young Ramblers and the Dandelion Stompers. ●Covered the Affordable Housing Action Plan Open House held by the city of Iowa City. ●Cablecast live and recorded the Iowa City City Council work sessions and formal meetings of September 6 and 20. ●Technically assisted and recorded the Iowa Women’s Foundation Luncheon with keynote speaker Cokie Roberts. ●Previewed and covered Taste of Iowa City in Iowa City Update on two occasions. ●Covered free paddle boarding in the Ped Mall as part of the Open Washington Campaign. The story ran as part of Iowa City In Focus. ●Previewed the changes being made to Dubuque Street construction route during football games to alleviate traffic concerns. Upcoming production activities: ●Record the League of Women Voters of Johnson County forum on the Iowa City Charter Amendment. ●Record 3 lectures for the Iowa City Foreign Relations Council. Topics include the human face of the Middle East refugee crisis and German Iowa & the global Midwest. ●Record an event held by the Sierra Club discussing threatened public lands. Includes a screening of “Wild Utah.” ●Cover the Arc of Southeast Iowa’s Annual Awards Ceremony. ●Cablecast live and record the Iowa City City Council work sessions and formal meetings of October 4 and 18. ●Putting together Community Highlights videos on some feature events taking place in Iowa City, including the Jingle Cross cyclocross races and Northside Oktoberfest. ●Covering the steps the City of Iowa City is taking to alleviate the issue of affordable housing in Iowa City. Programming and Interactive Services Recent and Upcoming Projects: The indexing feature has been added to our YouTube player, and we're now uploading 720p HD versions of our new programming to YouTube. We're also going back through our online catalog, and uploading our cablecast versions of those programs. We now have YouTube versions of all of our original programming from the past four months, as well as some of our legacy collections like Taste of Mercy, Obermann Conversations, and the Geneva Lecture series. In addition, we are just finishing the first working version of our new voicedriven InfoVision. This means we can finally get off of the legacy hardware required to use to the previous InfoVision. We'll be able to move InfoVision over to the City's network, which will make updates much easier, and give us the ability to add some crosspromotional features, like a 'now playing on city channel 4' app on channel 5. Website: In August, we had 2,000 users access 4,022 pages in 3,082 sessions. Our most popular pages were Mediacom's channel lineup, our homepage, our video page, Mediacom's cable rates, our program schedule, and City Council section of our streaming video page. Our streaming media provider reports 17,823 total hits, which includes 4,029 Events (player window was loaded), 649 Sessions (media was played), and 11,934 OnDemand Hits (media was scrubbed or index point was clicked). 996 podcasts were downloaded, and our HQ media was accessed 204 times. Our live stream was accessed 445 times. At the same time on YouTube, we attracted 7,774 views for 10,437 minutes of viewing time. Almost half of those hits were on the Eden Lounge Surveillance video from the Marcus Owens press conference last spring. We hosted the video for the Iowa City Police Department, and it is still being promoted on several altright websites. However, the new benefit presentation for the Animal Shelter, It's Reigning Cats and Dogs had 200 views and 477 minutes of view time. Other significant videos included two First Avenue project updates, the Black Entrepreneurs Roundtable, and the August episode of Iowa City in Focus. Programming: We cablecast 137 programs produced inhouse 845 times for 557 hours of programming, 32 locallyproduced (DITV, Senior Center, Hoover Library, JC Board of Supervisors, Coralville, North Liberty and University Heights) programs 108 times for 121 hours of programming, and 25 imported programs 75 times for 34 hours of programming. We also showed 77 PSAs 962 times for 24 hours of programming. [A list of programs completed in the month of August can be found on the following page.] Programs Completed by the Cable TV Office in August 2016 ●Friday Night Concert Series 2016 ○Brooks Strause & The Gory Details ○The Beggarmen ○¡RITMOCANO! ○The Beaker Brothers ●PSA for It's Reigning Cats and Dogs musical benefit show for the Iowa City Animal Care and Adoption Center ●Girls Rock! Iowa City 2016 Showcase ●Black Entrepreneurs Roundtable ●Iowa City Foreign Relations Council Presents: Chinese Political Culture and Authoritarian Regime Resiliency ●Iowa City City Council Work Session ○August 2, 2016 ○August 16, 2016 ●Iowa City City Council Meeting ○August 2, 2016 ○August 16, 2016 ●Market Music 2016 ○Slewgrass ○The Awful Purdies ○Sweet Cacophony ○Pennies on the Rail ●Party in the Park 2016: Marc & Brandi Janssen ●Iowa City Update ○Taste of Iowa City ○Summer of the Arts ●Iowa City In Focus ○The Impact of Football Season