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Home My WebLink AboutICTC Agenda and Packet 2018-09-24 Agenda Iowa City Telecommunications Commission Special Location: Iowa City Public Library Digital Media Lab, 123 Linn St. September 24, 2018, 5:30PM 1. Call to order 2. Approval of minutes 3. Announcements of Commissioners 4. Short public announcements 5. Election of Officers 6. Post-franchise role of the Telecommunications Commission 7. Municipal Broadband 8. REPORTS Consumer Issues Mediacom Report Local Access Reports City Cable TV Office Report 9. Adjournment If you will need disability-related accommodations in order to participate in this program/event, please contact Ty Coleman at 319-356-5454 or ty-coleman@iowa-city.org. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time to meet your access needs. PRELIMINARY Iowa City Telecommunications Commission 06/25/2018 Meeting Minutes Page 1 of 3 Minutes Iowa City Telecommunications Commission June 25, 2018 – 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:Derek Johnk, Laura Bergus, Matthew Brenton, James Pierce Members Absent:Paul Gowder Staff Present:Ty Coleman Others Present:Gerardo Sandoval, Bond Drager Recommendations to Council: None Approval of Minutes: Brenton moved and Pierce seconded a motion to approve the May 21, 2018 minutes as presented. The motion passed unanimously. Announcements of Commissioners: Bergus thanked the City for the opportunity to serve on the Telecommunications Commission for a number of years. Short Public Announcements: None. Community Internet Project: Coleman said he had not heard anything from the group working on the project. Pierce reported he had been in touch with the new University of Iowa Student Government President and Vice President. He said that the UISG liaison and vice liaison to City Council were interested in the topic of municipal broadband. Pierce said he hoped to work with them to learn what they might want to pursue. Consumer Issues: Coleman noted the two issues presented in the meeting packet that had been resolved. Mediacom Report: Coleman reported that he had not received any information from Mediacom. Local Access Reports: Sandoval reported that one of Public Access Television’s (PATV) producers recently had a documentary premiere and said it was a good example of quality work that can be produced through PATV. Bergus said the event reminded her that PATV provides a great service and that the documentary was well-produced. She said that local legislators and a wide variety of others from the community attended and that there was standing room only. Pierce added that he had seen the event promoted via social media. Drager said it was a busy time of year at the Library. She reported that she has been experimenting with live streaming to YouTube. Drager said the Library’s marketing staff had begun to create Facebook events for Library events and that she is able to put the link to the live stream in the event page after the PRELIMINARY Iowa City Telecommunications Commission 06/25/2018 Meeting Minutes Page 2 of 3 program begins. City Cable TV Office Report: Coleman mentioned that Jack Brooks, a producer with the City’s Cable TV Office, had recently been awarded a bronze Telly Award for his story on the local prison dog training program. Coleman noted that Telly awards cover a broader scope than just government or community video, but extend to all kinds of media producers across the country. Coleman said the Cable TV Office had also submitted to the annual awards contest put on by the National Association of Television Officers and Administrators (NATOA) and was awaiting the results. Coleman mentioned one project being worked on, which was to highlight the success of the UniverCity program and some support from a local organization that has benefitted it. The program purchases houses, performs renovations and other improvements, and sells them as single-family homes in an effort to benefit the neighborhoods. Coleman noted the summer concert season and mentioned the Cable TV Office had recently recorded three of this year’s MusicIC performances, which features a series of chamber music concerts. Bergus asked how the City’s live streaming of public meetings on Facebook was going. Coleman said he thought there has been up to somewhere around thirty people viewing the live stream at any given time while the meeting is taking place and that it is reaching a location where more people might be likely to watch. Coleman said that questions are not moderated during the stream, but that the questions are directed to appropriate staff for follow-up at a later time. Adjournment: Brenton moved and Pierce seconded a motion to adjourn. The motion passed unanimously. Adjournment was at 5:45 p.m. PRELIMINARY Iowa City Telecommunications Commission 06/25/2018 Meeting Minutes Page 3 of 3 TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION 12-MONTH ATTENDANCE RECORD Gowder Bergus Johnk 07/24/2017 Meeting not held due to lack of quorum. Brenton 08/28/2017 x x x x vacant 09/25/2017 x x x x vacant 10/23/2017 x o/c x x vacant 11/27/2017 x x x x vacant 11/30/2017 Special meeting x o/c x x vacant 01/22/2018 Meeting not held due to lack of quorum. 02/26/2018 x x x x vacant 03/26/2018 x x x x vacant Pierce 04/23/2018 x x x x x 05/21/2018 x o/c x x x 06/25/2018 o/c x x o/c x (x) = Present (o) = Absent (o/c) = Absent/Called (Excused) July 20, 2018 To: Iowa City Telecommunications Commission From: Ty Coleman, Media Production Services Coordinator (MPSC) Re: Cable Complaints June 2018 1.) Date: 06/05/18 Method of contact: Phone call to MPSC Complaint/Comment Summary: Customer reported that a Mediacom had been out to his house to install a new underground cable and connected it, but that his Internet service was now out. Resolution Summary: MPSC reported the issue to Mediacom’s Rick Karnes, who later the same day reported that the issue had been resolved. Date of Resolution: 06/05/18 2.) Date: 06/13/18 Method of contact: Email to Iowa City City Council Issue/Comment Summary: Resident complained that CenturyLink DSL Internet service speed offerings are too slow and that despite this, the cost is the same as faster service from Mediacom. Resolution Summary: MPSC responded to explain that there is a good amount of older infrastructure in town and that given the high cost of building new or upgrading infrastructure, providers are faced with a business decision based on the potential return on investment, noting that the City does not have the authority to force a provider upgrade its infrastructure or equipment. MPSC also explained the difficulty in obtaining a competitive provider in a market of our size. MPSC mentioned that the Cable TV Office is able to contact providers to facilitate investigation of technical or billing issues customers are having. Date of Resolution: 06/16/18 3.) Date: 06/16/18 Method of contact: Email to Cable TV Office Issue/Comment Summary: Customer reported that the audio had been out on the KWKB channel for several weeks. Resolution Summary: MPSC responded with some questions and suggestions to help identify where the problem was, as the issue did not appear to be system-wide. After some time, the customer later reported that she had tried the suggestions and that now an additional channel was having the same problem. The customer contacted Mediacom tech support, who confirmed there was not an audio outage on the channels and that he sent an authorization signal to the customer’s cable box in hopes of resolving the issue. The customer said the issue did not go away. MPSC contacted Mediacom’s Rick Karnes for investigating the issue. Mediacom’s Betty Hartman contacted the customer and suggested she try pressing the language button on her digital adapter remote several times. The customer reported that pressing the button resolved the issue. Date of Resolution: 07/12/18 August 24, 2018 To: Iowa City Telecommunications Commission From: Ty Coleman, Media Production Services Coordinator (MPSC) Re: Cable Complaints July 2018 No new cable related issues were presented to the Cable TV Office during the month of July 2018. September 21, 2018 To: Iowa City Telecommunications Commission From: Ty Coleman, Media Production Services Coordinator (MPSC) Re: Cable Complaints August 2018 1.) Date: 08/01/18 Method of contact: Phone call to MPSC Complaint/Comment Summary: Customer reported that the quality of his video service had degraded over the past year, including pixelizattion, blacking out, freezing, and audio dropouts. Resolution Summary: Customer stated that he had several technicians out to investigate and that each one cut the cable going to his TV and replaced the end, with no improvement. He reported that one technician said that the infrastructure leading to the customer’s home was old. The customer did not want to have another technician out to look at the problem due to the belief that the problem originated outside of his home. The customer also mentioned that the cabling inside his home was over twenty years old. MPSC contacted Mediacom’s Rick Karnes about the issue. Karnes was able to get a service appointment scheduled with the customer later reported that the technician found the aerial cable going to the house needed to be replaced. Once the cable was replaced, the technician reported that everything was working well. No further complaints from the customer have been received. Date of Resolution: 08/03/18 2.) Date: 08/10/18 Method of contact: Phone call to MPSC Issue/Comment Summary: Customer reported problems with losing his Internet and phone service periodically. The customer said that a technician mentioned there were some ongoing problems on the east side of Iowa City. Resolution Summary: MPSC contacted Rick Karnes about the issue. Karnes later reported that a corroded fitting at the tap was found and replaced. The customer called the MPSC to report that everything seemed to be working and that the technician he worked with “knew what he was doing.” Later in the month, the customer contacted the City’s Cable TV Office to report that his cable had been out since a recent power outage during a storm, but soon after reported that he had contacted the technician that had assisted him earlier and that the problem had been resolved. Date of Resolution: 08/13/18 From:Nick Kilburg kilburg@gmail.com Subject:Article for ICTC Date:July 15, 2018 at 8:21 PM To :Ty Coleman ty-coleman@iowa-city.org Ty, Hope all's well! I thought I'd forward the attached article for the Commission: Mikhail Guttentag's recent law review article in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology, which discusses Chattanooga’s publicly-owned Internet infrastructure suggests that other cities follow this model. Please pass on my best wishes for everyone there! Nick Kilburg https://www.yjolt.org/sites/default/files/20_yale_j._l._tech._311_.pdf Guttentag, Mikahil…18).pdf PATV Report to Iowa City Telecommunications Commission July 2018 Summer is in full effect with the return of Latino Hour with host Manny Galvez and A “Now Your Rights” capture with our local citizens taking the lead. PATV participated in the Freedom School 360 project teaching media literacy and the ins-and-outs of PATV membership as part of there community journalism course. PATV is proud to have sponsored the documentary and it’s premier of “Through My Eyes” produced by PATV staffers Keaton Fuller as Producers and Sujit Sign as Director. PATV Board Meetings PATV Board of Directors next meeting August 16th., at 6 pm. Intro Workshop Guidelines orientation is the ﬁrst Thursday of every month, 6 pm at PATV or online @ www.patv.tv Next Guidelines is Thursday, August 2nd. 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 Joe’s Gaming Shack Latino Hour Call-In Mockery PATV Underground We are Iowa City PATV Presents: Prairie Lights GreenFire The Lyle Harris Show PATV Presents: Thursday Night Live at Uptown Bills Tom’s Guitar Show Submitted by Gerardo Sandoval 7/18/18 206 Lafayette St. • Iowa City, Iowa 52240 • Phone 338-7035 Fax 338-8456 • contact@patv.tv • http://www.patv.tv PATV Report to Iowa City Telecommunications Commission August 2018 Nora of Nora’s House of Dance interviewed and captured Kinge Montage’s, a local dance/drag legend, last performance. Staff produced a new show called “Local Looks” highlighting local business the support Non-Proﬁts. We captured and streamed the Latinx Midwest Happy Hour at Studio as part of the symposium “Building Sustainable Worlds: Latinx Peacemakers in the Midwest”. The Martial Arts forum is back in our studio featuring our local martial arts expert and host/producer Colt A. PATV Board Meetings PATV Board of Directors next meeting Sept. 17th., at 7 pm. Intro Workshop Guidelines orientation is the ﬁrst Thursday of every month, 6 pm at PATV or online @ www.patv.tv Next Guidelines is Thursday, Sept. 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 Joe’s Gaming Shack Latino Hour Call-In Mockery We are Iowa City GreenFire The Lyle Harris Show PATV Presents: Thursday Night Live at Uptown Bills Tom’s Guitar Show Submitted by Gerardo Sandoval 8/22/18 206 Lafayette St. • Iowa City, Iowa 52240 • Phone 338-7035 Fax 338-8456 • contact@patv.tv • http://www.patv.tv PATV Report to Iowa City Telecommunications Commission Sept. 2018 Joe’s Gaming Shack is PATV’s look at what our local gaming community is into these days/ PATV revisits Prairie Light’s latest presentation “Live from Prairie Lights”. The return of Education Exchange with host Hani Elkadi and PATV also co-hosted Bike-In Underground with The Bike Library were we featured local musical acts. PATV Board Meetings PATV Board of Directors next meeting Sept. 22nd., at 7 pm. Intro Workshop Guidelines orientation is the ﬁrst Thursday of every month, 6 pm at PATV or online @ www.patv.tv Next Guidelines is Thursday, Oct. 4th. 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 PATV Presents: Prairie Lights Joe’s Gaming Shack Latino Hour Call-In Mockery Local Looks GreenFire The Lyle Harris Show PATV Presents: Thursday Night Live at Uptown Bills Tom’s Guitar Show Submitted by Gerardo Sandoval 9/20/18 206 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. August 2018. August 2018: The Library’s ever popular Summer Reading Programs have concluded another successful year on August 11th. Having had 2 or more live programs each week all summer long, we are now looking forward to a few weeks to catch up before our fall programming begins in September. This fall we are looking forward to a wide variety of programs: the Fall International Writing Program series with the UI International Writing Program; the Library’s annual Intellectual Freedom Festival; the Iowa City Book Festival; the ongoing monthly DNA Interest Group programs, and the Witching Hour festival. It’s going to be a busy fall here at the Library. Monthly Program Update: This month: August 2018 Next Month: September Live Children’s Programs • 2 • 2 Live Adult Programs • 2 • 6 Programs Cablecast • 694 • Programs videotaped by Govt. Channel/CTS • 1 • The Library Channel Report prepared for the Iowa City Telecommunications Commission monthly meeting by Beth Fisher, Program Librarian and Bond Drager, Equipment Specialist. July 2018. July 2018: As we near the end of July we enter the Dog Days of Summer, and we can see the end of our Summer Reading Programs for kids, teens and adults. All three programs wrap up on August 1st. Programs broadcast live in July have been Summer Reading Program events for kids and adults: Children’s Programming. • SRP Kids: Pint Size Polkas • SRP Kids: Darrin Crow Troubador and Talespinner • SRP Kids: Blank Park Zoo Show & Tell • SRP Kids: Mad Mixture with the Grout Museum • SRP Kids: The Hanson Family Jugglers Adult Programming: • Adult Summer Reading Program, Crystals: Nature's Most Beautiful Rocks This month we have been experimenting with live streaming our program on Youtube. So far we are only sharing a link in the facebook event page for each program, but we plan to continue and make this a regular part of our workflow. The viewership hasn’t been high yet but the feedback has been very positive. Monthly Program Update: This month: July 2018 Next Month: July 2018 Live Children’s Programs • 8 • 3 Live Adult Programs • 1 • Programs Cablecast • 672 • Programs videotaped by Govt. Channel/CTS • 0 • The Library Channel Report prepared for the Iowa City Telecommunications Commission monthly meeting by Beth Fisher, Program Librarian and Bond Drager, Equipment Specialist. September 2018. September 2018: The 2018 International Authors program produced in conjunction with the UI International Writing Program kicked on off on August 31. This month we will be broadcasting three more events live on Fridays: The World of Arts; On the Body, and Working-in-Progress. This year’s Intellectual Freedom Festival takes place the last week of September. We will be broadcasting three children’s events focusing on books that have been banned or challenged and one adult program “Objectionable Poems” performed by the Reading Aloud Group from the Johnson County/ Iowa City Senior Center. This month’s DNA Interest Group event “Predicting your Traits” will also be broadcast live. Next month we are looking forward to a wide variety of Iowa City Book Fest events as well as events for the 2018 Witching Hour Festival. It’s going to be a busy fall at the Library. Monthly Program Update: This month: Sept. 2018 Next Month: Oct. 2018 Live Children’s Programs • 2 • 0 Live Adult Programs • 5 • 10 Programs Cablecast • 647 • Programs videotaped by Govt. Channel/CTS • • 1 Date: July 17, 2018 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 July 2018 meeting Media Production Services Submitted by Jack Brooks, Special Projects Assistant, and Toni Ugolini, Media Production Assistant Recent production activities: ●Created a Community Highlights video for Kids Day at Upper City Park. ●Produced weekly Iowa City Update program. Topics included Jazz Festival, Fourth of July events, Climate Action Meeting, and Organic Cart Distribution. ●Produced another PSA in the “Bike Shorts” series on how to change a tire. ●Recorded and cablecast multiple Friday Night Concert Series performances. ●Recorded the performance of the North Corridor Jazz All Stars at the 2018 Iowa City Jazz Festival. ●Recorded an Aging in Place event which was held in the Coralville Public Library. This event featured many speakers talking about the future of technology for helping people to stay in their own home as they age. Upcoming productions: ●Upcoming Iowa City Update programs to feature RAGBRAI, City Park Rides, and new bike lanes. ●Creating an Iowa City In Focus that features the progress on the RAGBRAI, Dog Park Rules, Historical Home Grants and more. ●Continue editing various promotional or informational videos like Park Virtual Tours & the Animal Shelter videos. ●Finish up a video about designating homes as historic landmarks. ●Coverage of the New Horizons summer band concert at Voxman Concert Hall. Programming and Interactive Services Submitted by Kevin Crawley, Communications Technician Recent and Upcoming Projects: The Cable TV Office has received a series of programs from the National Gallery of Art to cablecast on City Channel 4. There are 55 separate programs, totalling a little over 26 hours of programming. I'm currently running "sneak peek" episodes in the Daily Iowan TV slot, as that program is in hiatus for the summer, and I’ll be adding a dedicated National Gallery of Art series slot to our lineup in August. I've made some minor changes to the City Channel 4 web page footers to make our social media links easier to find. Website: In June, we had 1,400 users access 2,454 pages in 1,816 sessions. Our most popular pages were Mediacom's channel lineup page, Mediacom's channel rates, our home page, our program schedule, our about page and our live video page. On YouTube, we had 7,181 video views account for 17,684 minutes (357 hours and 4 minutes) of watch time. We added 21 more subscribers, and our current total is 417. Our most watched videos by views were the Welcome to Iowa City! video, Iowa City in Focus, the short video "Iowa Voter ID Law", a video on the Gateway Project progress, our Iowa City Update programs about new organic carts, the RAGBRAI pre-ride, and the Fireworks ordinance. The most watched videos by time were Iowa City in Focus, the Welcome to Iowa City! video, the June University Heights City Council meeting, the Voter ID short, and our program on Schools, Racial Segregation and Social Justice. Programming: We cablecast 106 programs produced in-house 725 times for 515 hours of programming, 22 locally-produced (DITV, Senior Center, Hoover Library, Task Force on Aging, JC Board of Supervisors, Coralville, North Liberty and University Heights) programs 105 times for 87 hours of programming, and 15 imported programs 70 times for 63 hours of programming. We also showed 93 PSAs 1172 times for 95 hours of programming. Programs Completed by the Cable TV Office in June 2018 ●2018 Friday Night Concert Series ○Winterland ○Dandelion Stompers ○Brian Johannesen with The Zero Percent Chance of Rain and Dave Zollo & the Body Electric ●City Channel 4 Meet the Candidates Marathon Bumper - 2018 Primary ●2018 Market Music ○James Mons & His Not So Little Monsters Jazz Band ○Traffic Jam ○Ace Jones ●Iowa Arts Festival ○NonProhet ○James Tutson & the Rollback ●Party in the Park - Abbie Callahan ●Poetry in Public 2018 ○Claire Sauder ○Everest Noble ○Izabel Tibesar ○Laura Felleman ○Martha Schut ○Maxine Carlson ○Myrna Farraj ●NAMI JC - The Power of Advocacy to Change the World (or at least Iowa) ●Iowa City Update: ○RAGBRAI Pre-Ride ○Juneteenth Celebration ○Fireworks Ordinance ○Jazz Festival ●Iowa City In Focus: ○Airport Anniversary ○Gateway Project ○Summer Bus Program ○Bike Shorts: Bus Bike Racks ●Promotional Videos: ○Juneteenth Celebration ○Climate Action Meeting Date: August 20, 2018 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 August 2018 meeting Media Production Services Submitted by Jack Brooks, Special Projects Assistant, and Toni Ugolini, Media Production Assistant Recent production activities: ●Produced weekly Iowa City Update program. Topics included RAGBRAI, Ped Mall construction, fall activity registration, organic cart pickup, and City Council special election. ●Created an Iowa City In Focus that features RAGBRAI, Dog Park Rules, Historical Home Grants and more. ●Produced PSA video on the Climate Action Pledge, Iowa City Monarch Festival, and the Taste of Market. ●Covered and created Community Highlights video on “Do You See Me Now?” basketball game and Emergency Services Youth Camp. ●Produced a walkthrough tour video of a Univercity home for Neighborhood and Development services. ●Have recorded and produced a few Aging in Place Forums. Each forum is on a different topic and they bring in 4-5 speakers to talk about the certain topic of interest for that forum. Upcoming productions: ●Upcoming Iowa City Update programs to feature Gateway Project construction update, dog paddle, and City Park Rides. ●Creating an Iowa City In Focus that features the leaf vacuum program, historic cabin update, and more. ●Creating more walkthrough tours of some Univercity homes. The purpose of these videos are to reach more viewers and people interested in purchasing the homes. ●Producing a information video on the Historic Preservation Commission. In this video, we hope to reach people in our community who may be interested in applying to be on the commission. Programming and Interactive Services Submitted by Kevin Crawley, Communications Technician Recent and Upcoming Projects: I created a virtual restreaming service, which allows us to send simultaneous live feeds to both Facebook and YouTube. The YouTube live feed is then sent to our website for live coverage. While the City is pretty invested in the Facebook platform, it was not possible to view live video on our website with a mobile device without a Facebook account. This was up and running as we provided a live feed of two different cameras (provided by Information Technology Services) of the RAGBRAI riders arriving in Iowa City. Website: In July, we had 1,236 users access 2,344 pages in 1,637 sessions. Our most popular pages were Mediacom's channel lineup page, Mediacom's channel rates, our home page, our live video page, our video library page, and our program schedule. On YouTube, we had 7,220 video views account for 19,809 minutes (330 hours and 9 minutes) of watch time. We added 20 more subscribers, and our current total is 423. Our most watched videos by views were the Welcome to Iowa City! video, Iowa City Update programs on RAGBRAI, the Ped Mall construction, Organic Cart Distribution and Fourth of July fun. The most watched videos by time were the RAGBRAI live feed, the Welcome to Iowa City! video, the City Council meeting of July 5, the live feed of the July 17th City Council work session and meeting, two Iowa City Update episodes (RAGBRAI and Ped Mall Construction, and a History For Lunch episode on Iowa in the Civil War. Programming: We cablecast 143 programs produced in-house 898 times for 583 hours of programming, 21 locally-produced (DITV, Senior Center, Hoover Library, Task Force on Aging, JC Board of Supervisors, Coralville, North Liberty and University Heights) programs 91 times for 111 hours of programming, and 34 imported programs 79 times for 38 hours of programming. We also showed 101 PSAs 1079 times for 26 hours of programming. (note: I had been counting Iowa City Update programming as PSAs, because they play from that folder. Including them in our in-house programming results in about a 70-hour change in those two categories.) Programs Completed by the Cable TV Office in July 2018 ●2018 Friday Night Concert Series ○Annie Savage and the Savage Hearts ○The Beaker Brothers ○The Feralings ●2018 Iowa City Jazz Festival - North Corridor Jazz All Stars ●Aging in Place Forum - Technology of Today & the Wave of the Future ●Chip In Budget Workshop LIVE ●Climate Action Plan - Call to Action Meeting Promo ●Community Highlights: Climate Action Pledge ●Iowa City City Council Meeting ○July 3, 2018 ○July 17, 2018 ●Iowa City City Council Work Session ○July 3, 2018 ○July 17, 2018 ●Iowa City Dog Parks informational video ●Iowa City Foreign Relations Council Presents ○Hollowing Out the Middle: Chinese and American Rural Depopulation ○Mandela Washington Fellows: Young Entrepreneurs Fostering Transformative Changes in Africa ○Religion in a Globalizing World ●Iowa City Update ○Climate Action Meeting ○Fourth of July Fun ○Organic Cart Distribution ○Ped Mall Construction Update ○RAGBRAI ●Kids Day at Upper City Park ●Market Music 2018 ○Alex Gordon Hi-Fi ○Society of Broken Souls ●MPOJC Urbanized Area Policy Board of 07/18/18 ●MusicIC 2018 ○Dark Side of the Moon ○Night Music ●Rummage in the Ramp promotional videos ○DIY/Crafter perspective ○Student perspective ○Refuse Division perspective Date: September 18, 2018 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 2018 meeting Media Production Services Submitted by Jack Brooks, Special Projects Assistant, and Toni Ugolini, Media Production Assistant Recent production activities: ●Produced weekly Iowa City Update program. Topics included curbside carts, special election, Kids Day at the Farmers Market, and the Climate Action Plan. ●Created PSA videos for the Dog Paddle, Pedestrian Mall Improvements Project, Jingle Cross Festival, and a Bike Shorts on choosing the correct bike. ●Produced Community Highlights videos for the Iowa City Monarch Festival and Kids Day at the Farmers Market. ●Created an informational video on the 4-3 way conversion construction taking place on Mormon Trek. ●Produced a virtual tour video for one of the UniverCity homes on Fairchild St. to be used to help advertise the homes for sale. Upcoming productions: ●Upcoming Iowa City Update programs to feature City Park Rides, Iowa City Book Festival and Halloween hours & safety tips. ●Creating an Iowa City In Focus that features the Leaf Vacuum Program, curbside collection tips, and more. ●Finish editing the Senior Center’s Women Pool League video which showcases the ladies who come each week to play pool with each other. ●Film b-roll and edit together the Historic Preservation Commission informative video which will help promote the commission’s open seats. ●Creating a video on Service Dogs in businesses around Iowa City. This video will help people and businesses understand what is and is not acceptable in Iowa City. Programming and Interactive Services Submitted by Kevin Crawley, Communications Technician Recent and Upcoming Projects: We've made some minor tweaks to our program schedule to accommodate two new series: we started the National Gallery of Art series in August, and we are also going to be cablecasting Education Exchange, a series that focuses on the Iowa City Community School District. I've also been doing some minor changes on our website and to our re-streaming app as issues arise. And finally, I've been studying for the written test for an FAA remote pilot license, so that I'll be able to do videography and photography with our anticipated drone. Website: In August, we had 2,448 users access 2,332 pages in 3,305 sessions. Our most popular pages were Mediacom's channel lineup page, our home page, Mediacom's channel rates, our live video page, our video library page, and our program schedule. On YouTube, we had 7,201 video views account for 31,118 minutes (518 hours and 38 minutes) of watch time. We added 7 more subscribers, and our current total is 440. Our most watched videos by views were the Welcome to Iowa City! video, the most recent episode of Iowa City In Focus, the live City Council meetings of August 21, the Iowa City Update episode on Curbside Cart Update, the Deer Management forum, and the Iowa City Update episode on Organic Cart Distribution. The most watched videos by time were the Deer Management forum, the live City Council meetings of August 21, and the Conversation with the Candidates forum. Programming: We cablecast 122 programs produced in-house 859 times for 548 hours of programming, 33 locally-produced (DITV, Senior Center, Hoover Library, Task Force on Aging, JC Board of Supervisors, Coralville, North Liberty and University Heights) programs 106 times for 113 hours of programming, and 37 imported programs 98 times for 46 hours of programming. We also showed 105 PSAs 1234 times for 28 hours of programming. Programs Completed by the Cable TV Office in August 2018 ●2018 Dog Paddle promo ●2018 Friday Night Concert Series ○6 Odd Rats ○Candymakers ○Death Valley Welcome Center ○Shade of Blue ●2018 Iowa City Monarch Festival promo ●2018 Taste of Market promo ●Aging in Place Forum - Downsizing and Resources ●'Chip In' Budget Event ●Community Highlights ○2018 Monarch Festival ○2018 Taste of Market ○Do You See Me Now? ○Emergency Services Youth Camp ●Conversation with the Candidates for the Iowa City City Council Special Election ●Iowa City City Council Meeting of: ○August 7, 2018 ○August 21, 2018 ●Iowa City City Council Special Formal Meeting of August 3, 2018 ●Iowa City City Council Work Session of: ○August 7, 2018 ○August 21, 2018 ●Iowa City Deer Population Management Public Forum ●Iowa City Foreign Relations Council Presents: The Baltic States, NATO, and Russia ●Iowa City In Focus: RAGBRAI Returns to Iowa City ●Iowa City Update: ○Curbside Carts Update ○Fall Activity Registration ○Organic Cart Pickup ○Special Election ●Market Music 2018 ○Bluestem Players ○Joe & Coleen Peterson ○Mike & Brian ○Sarah Burgess ○Saul Lubaroff ●Meet the Candidates 2018 ○Ann Freerks ○Brianna Wills ○Bruce Teague ○Candidates for Iowa City City Council Primary Election ○Christine Ralston ○Ryan Hall ●Meet The Candidates Marathon Promo & Bumper - 2018 City Council Primary ●Party in the Park 2018 ○Nancita Wernett ○Pennies on the Rail