APPENDIX I
CABLE TV—PUBLIC ACCESS
Public Access (or a version of it) does live on and is growing slowly. It takes many forms, depending on the imagination and ingenuity of local media minded persons. Great potential exists in a new community where a cable system can be integrated into the whole community at once. Ground rules and expectations for public service programming should be negotiated in the beginning, so schools, town halls, city council chambers, and shopping centers can be wired 2-way, and everyone can ultimately participate in local issues and programming.
A regular grant or financial allotment could be set aside out of cable subscriber revenues to buy video equipment and pay salaries for production personnel. The money might go to a nonprofit citizen's group which could then parcel out the funds in the form of mini-grants to local groups and/or producers with good ideas for local TV programs. The community would probably start by funding a local access center with personnel and equipment to get the basic programming going.
INFORMATION SOURCES:
Information regarding the technical and organizational aspects of a Public Access CTV System is available from:
Tom Cross
Department of CATV City of Boulder
Municipal Building
Boulder, Colorado 80302
The Cable TV Information Center The Urban Institute
2100 M Street, N W
Washington, D.C. 20037
Other excellent source material on the politics and potential of Cable TV, Public Access, and Pay TV is available from:
The Aspen Institute
Program on Communication And Society 360 Bryant St.
Palo Alto, CA 94301
ACCESS Magazine
1346 Connecticut Ave N W Suite 415 Washington, D.C. 20036
PAY TV
PAY CABLE FACT SHEET
Pay cable programming is usually presented daily on pay cable channels and is often repeated during the week or month for viewers' convenience. The special programming can be delivered to the cable system in several ways. It can be originated at the cable system, or it can be fed to the cable system via terrestial microwave or even domestic communications satellite.
PAY CABLE SUBSCRIBE RS 766,100
CABLE SUBSCRIBERS 12,500,000
CABLE SYSTEMS OFFERING
PAY CABLE SERVICE 253
TOTAL CABLE SYSTEMS 3 487
NUMBER OF BASIC CABLE
SUBSCRIBERS OF SYSTEMS
OFFERING PAY CABLE 3,150,000
NUMBER OF STATES WHERE
PAY CABLE IS IN OPERATION 42
TYPICAL PAY CABLE RATES $7.59 per
month (average)
NUMBER OF DOMESTIC SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS UTILIZED FOR
PAY CABLE SERVICE 49
National Cable Television Association
918 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
202-457-6700 *All data as of 6/30/76
Here's a list of potential program buyers—so check them out!
APPENDIX II
VIDEO AND TELEVISION MAGAZINES:
BM/E (Broadcast Management Engineering)
274 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10017
BROADCASTING MAGAZINE Broadcasting Publications Inc. Sales St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
CVRP PATCH PANEL
Calif. Video Resource Project San Francisco Public Library Civic Center,
San Francisco, CA 94102
EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL TELEVISION
Also VIDEO TRADE NEWS and VIDEOPLAY REPORT
C.S. Tepfer Publishing Co
607 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
MEDIA AND METHODS 134 North 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19107
TELEVISIONS MAGAZINE Washington Community Video Center
P.O. Box 21068
Washington, DC 20009
VIDEOCASSETTE AND CATV NEWSLETTER
Martin Roberts Associates
P.O. Box 5254
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
VIDEOGRAPHY
475 Park Ave. South New York, NY 10016
VIDEO SYSTEMS MAGAZINE 1014 Wyandotte St.
Kansas City, MO 64105
PAY CABLE SUPPLIERS:
Associated Press Cinemerica, Inc. Pay TV Services Star Channel
50 Rockefeller Plaza 9477 Brighton Way 3718 Woodsong Court Warner Cable Corporation
New York, NY 10020 Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Dunwoody, Georgia 30338 75 Rockefeller Plaza
Bestvision, Inc. Hollywood Home Theatre Reuters New York, NY 10019
5540 West Glendale 1345 Avenue of the Americas 1700 Broadway United Press International
Suite C-160 New York, NY 10019 New York, NY 10019 220 East 42nd Street
Glendale, AZ 85301 New York, NY 10019
Home Box Office Satori Productions
Broadband Time and Life Building 250 West 57th Street
375 Park Avenue Rockefeller Center Suite 2105
New York, NY 10022 New York, NY 10020 New York, NY 10019
Cable Program Services Optical Systems Showtime
39 West 16th Street 433 Airport Boulevard Viacom International, Inc.
New York, NY 10011 Burlingame, CA 94010 345 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
APPENDIX III
VIDEO PROGRAM SOURCES:
Program subjects cover the range from A to Z, and there are a variety of methods to get something to play on your VTR.
You can record programs off-the-air, but this can infringe on copyrights. Occasionally you may find some tape available on a free loan or free dub basis, or you can rent, lease, or purchase programs from a wide variety of program suppliers.
There are over 500 sources of prepackaged video programs and the number expands at the rate of about 20% annually. Most programming is available on 3/4-inch "U," but some tapes are also available on 1-inch, 2-inch and 1/2-inch. Probably the bulk of programming will eventually shift to the 1/2-inch "B" and VHS format when these VCRs penetrate the home market.
The best way to find out what is available is to write to the suppliers for their catalogs. A growing number of independent producers are also making some very interesting and unconventional programming available. The following list is very incomplete, but will give you somewhere to start.
Academy Films, Inc. P.O. Box 38753 Hollywood, CA 90038
Agency for Instructional Television
Box A
Bloomington, IN 47401
AIMS Instructional Media Services, Inc.
626 Justin Avenue Glendale, CA 91201
Alternate Media Center NYU School of the Arts 144 Bleeker Street
New York, NY 10012
Association for Educationa Communications and Technology (AECT)
1201 16th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036
Broadside Video
Elm at Millard
Johnson City, TN 37601
Cable Network TV
12636 Beatrice Street Los Angeles, CA 90066
California Video Resource Project
S.F. Public Library — Civic Center
San Francisco, CA 94102
Campus Film Distributors Corp.
2 Overhill Road
Scarsdale, NY 10583
CitySlick c/o Tom
Klinkowstein
106 Clarendon Street Syracuse, NY 13210
Double Helix
390A North Euclid St. Louis, MO 63108
Educational Resources Foundation
2627 Millwood Avenue, P.O. Drawer L
Columbia, SC 29250
Electronic Arts Intermix 84 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
Electronic University Box 361
Mill Valley, CA 94941
Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation 425 North Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60611
Environmental Communications
62 Windward Avenue Venice, CA 90291
Exec-U-Service Associates P.O. Box 2214
Princeton, NJ 08540
Films for the Humanities, P.O. Box 2053
Princeton, NJ 08540
Full Circle Media Archive Box 4370
Boulder, CO 80302
Global Village Video
Resource Center
454 Broome Street New York, NY 10012
Golden Tape
341 Foothill Road
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Great Plains National ITV Library
University of Nebraska P.O. Box 80669
Lincoln, NE 68501
Index Video Exchange P.O. Box 699
Port Townsend, WA 98368
Integrative Learning Systems, Inc.
326 West Chevy Chase Drive, No. 11
Glendale, CA 91204
Intercollegiate Video
Clearing House
P.O. Drawer 33000R Miami, FL 33133
Management Video Publications, Ltd.
Box 369, Toronto-Dominion Centre Toronto, Ontario M5K 1K8 CANADA
Media Bus, Inc.
Maple Tree Farm Lanesville, NY 12450
Media One
P.O. Box 1031
Belmont, CA 94002
Medical Educational Resources Program Indiana University School of Medicine
1100 West Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202
Microcampus
206 Civil Engineering Bldg. No. 72
University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721
National Audiovisual Center
GSA
Washington, D.C. 20409
Northeast Video and Sound, Inc.
287 Kenyon Street Stratford, CT 06497
Public Service Video New City School
Park Square Court 400 Sibley
St. Paul, MN 55101
Portable Channel
8 Prince Street
Rochester, NY 14607
Pyramid Films P.O. Box 1048
Santa Monica, CA 90406
Readers Digest Television Division
200 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Roundtable Films, Inc. 113 North San Vincente Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Seton Hall University Women and the Law (Distribution)
School of Law
1095 Raymond Blvd. Newark, NJ 07102
Smith-Mattingly
Productions, Ltd.
310 South Fairfax Street Alexandria, VA 22314
Southern Educational Communications Association ISECA)
928 Woodrow Street P.O. Box 5966
Columbia, SC 29250
Sports World Cinema P.O. Box 17022
Salt Lake City, UT 84117
S/T Videocassette Duplicating Corp. 500 Willow Tree Road Leonia, NJ 07605
The Humanist Alternative 923 Kensington Avenue Buffalo, NY 14215
The Satellite Video Exchange Society 261 Powell Street Vancouver, B.C. V6A 1G3 CANADA
Time-Life Multi-Media Time-Life Bldg.
Rockefeller Center New York, NY 10020
Turtle Island Media Endeavors
Box 4094
Aspen, CO 81611
TVTV
Box 48-455
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Varjradhatu
111 Pearl Street
Boulder, CO 80302
Videoplay Merchandising 333 West Lake Street Chicago, IL 60606
Videotakes
P.O. Box 578
Cuba, NM 87013
Video Tape Network, Inc. 115 East 62nd Street New York, NY 10021
Washington Community Video Center
P.O. Box 21068 Washington, D.C. 20009
William R. Ewald, Jr. The Next Fifty Years 1730 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006
WNET 13 Media Services 356 West 58th Street New York, NY 10019
Video Program Catalogs
Videologs
c/o Esselte Video PO Box 978
Edison, NJ 08817
APPENDIX IV
Addresses of Manufacturers:
AKAI AMERICA LTD., 2139 East Del Amo Blvd., Compton, CA 90220
AMPEREX ELECTRONIC CORP., Electro-Optical Devices Div., Slatersville, RI 02876
AMPEX CORP., 401 Broadway, Redwood City, CA 94063 AMTRON CORP., P.O. Box 1150, Aptos, CA 95003
ANGENIEUX CORP. OF AMERICA, 1500 Ocean Ave., Bohemia, NY 11716
ARVIN INDUSTRIES/ECHO SCIENCE CORP., 485 East Middlefield Road, Mountain View, CA 94043
ASACA CORP., 1289 Rand Road, Des Plaines, IL 60016
BERKEY-COLORTRAN, 1015 Chestnut St., Burbank, CA 91502
CANON USA INC., 10 Nevada Drive, Lake Success, NY 11040 CMX SYSTEMS, 3303 Scott Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95050
COMMERCIAL ELECTRONICS INC., (CEI, 880 Maude Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043
CONCORD COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, 790 Park Ave., Huntington, NY 11743
CONRAC, BENJAMIN ELECTRONICS, 40 Smith Street, Farmingdale, NY 11735
CONSOLIDATED VIDEO SYSTEMS, (CVS), 3300 Edward Ave., Santa Clara, CA 95050
CONVERGENCE CORP., 17935 Sky Park Circle, Irvine, CA 92714
DATATRON INC., 1562 Reynolds Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92711
DIGITAL VIDEO SYSTEMS, 512 McNicoll Ave., Willowdale, Ontario, Canada
DYNASCIENCES VIDEO PRODUCTS, Township Line Road, Blue Bell, PA 19422
E IG EN CO., P.O. Box 1027, Grass Valley, CA 95945
FERNSEH GROUP, ROBERT BOSCH CORP., 279 Midland Ave.. Saddle Brook, NJ 07662
FREZZOLINI ELECTRONICS INC., 7 Valley St., Hawthorne, NJ 07506
FUJINON OPTICAL INC., 672 White Plains Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583
GBC CLOSED CIRCUIT CORP., 315 Hudson St., New York, NY 10013
HITACHI SHIBADEN CORP. OF AMERICA, 58-25 Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Woodside, NY 11377
I KEGAMI ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES INC. OF NEW YORK, 29-19 39th Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101
INTERNATIONAL VIDEO CORP. (IVC), 455 W. Maude Ave.,
JVC INDUSTRIES INC. 58-75 Queens Midtown Expressway, Maspeth, NY 11378
K & H PRODUCTS, LTD., Main St., North Benington, VT 05257
MAGNAVOX VIDEO SYSTEMS, 1700 Magnavox Way, Fort Wayne, IN 46804
MERLIN ENGINEERING WORKS, 1800 Embarcadero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303
MICROTIME INC., 1280 Blue Hills Ave., Bloomfield, CT 06002
NIPPON ELECTRIC CO., LTD. (NEC America Inc.), 160 Martin Ln., Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
PANASONIC VIDEO SYSTEMS, Matsushita Electric Corp. of America, One Panasonic Way, Secaucus, NJ 07094
PHILIPS AUDIO VIDEO SYSTEMS, 91 McKee Drive, Mahwah, NJ 07430
RCA CORP. BROADCAST SYSTEMS, Front & Cooper St., Bldg. 2-5, Camden, NJ 08102
RANK PRECISION INDUSTRIES INC., 411 Jarvis Ave., Des Plaines, IL 60018
SANYO ELECTRIC INC., 1200 West Artesia Blvd., Compton, CA 90220
SENNHEISER ELECTRONICS, 10 West 37th St., New York, NY 10018
SHINTR ON CO., 144 Rogers St., Cambridge, MA 02142
SHURE BROTHERS, 222 Hartley Ave., Evanston, IL 60204 SMITH-VICTOR CORP., Griffith, IN 46319
SPECTRA-VISION CORP., 1528 Belfield Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19141
SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA, 9 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019
TELEMATION INC., P.O. Box 15068, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115
TELEVISION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL (TR1), 1003 Elwell Court, Palo Alto, CA 94303
TENTEL, 50 Curtner Ave., Campbell, CA 95008 3M COMPANY, 3M Center, St. Paul, MN 55101
THOMSON-CSF LABORATORIES, 37 Brownhouse Road, Stamford, CT 06902
VIDEO AIDS CORP. OF COLORADO, 325 East Seventh St., Loveland, CO 80537
VIDEO ACCESSORIES CATALOGS:
COMPREHENSIVE VIDEO SUPPLY CORPORATION, 148 Veterans Dr., Northvale, NJ 07647
THE BILL DANIELS COMPANY, Markade Bldg, 6750 West 75th St., P.O. Box 2056, Shawnee Mission, KA 66201
WIDL VIDEO, 5325 North Lincoln Ave., Chicago, IL 60625
APPENDIX V POPULAR VIDEO BOOKS:
Independent Video, by Ken Marsh, Straight Arrow Press, San Francisco, CA. 1973. Introducing The Single Camera System, by S & M Productions, Washington, DC, 1971.
Making The Media Revolution, by Peter Weiner, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., NY, NY, 1973.
"Petersen's Guide To Video Tape Recording, by Charles Bensinger, Petersen Publishing Co., 8490 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90069, 1973. (Out of print)
Television Production: A Vocational Approach, by Richard L. Williams, Vision Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, 1976. Television Production Handbook, by Herbert Zettl, Wadsworth Publishing Co., Belmont CA, 1977.
`The Home Video Handbook, by Charles Bensinger, Video-Info Publications, P.O. Box 1502, Santa Barbara, CA 93102 The Spagetti City Video Manual, by Video Freex, Praeger Publications, NY, 1973.
The Video Primer_ by Richard Robinson. Quick Fox Inc. NY. 1974.
