Public Access Corporation Of The District Of Columbia

Community Engagement, Education & Programming:The cable providers who fund DCTV have granted it exclusive use and programming control of eight public access channels on which DCTV schedules and transmits community programming, most of which is produced and provided by DCTV member. Use of the channels is collectively valued at $106,379,650 based on a per subscriber valuation forPublic, Educational and Government(PEG)channel usage. DCTV fulfills its mission to transmit community programming on the cable systems in the District of Columbia by scheduling and telecasting programming at no charge to DCTV members, and by creating, producing and telecasting DCTVs original locally focused programs. DCTV also provided and subsidizes supporting resources,training and facilities to create community programming by its members. DCTVs volunteers contributed thousands of hours creating, supporting and providing the programming telecast on DCTVs 8 cable tv channels.

Education: Participants received a total of 1,446 hours of education, including the Creative Economy Career Access Program students received 264 hours of education, non-profit organizations received 207 hours of education and interns received 975 hours of education.These education programs used 1,756 hours of equipment and facilities.DCTVs dedicated volunteers contributed thousands of hours creating, supporting and providing the programming telecast on DCTVs eight cable television channels on the Comcast, RCN and Verizon FiOS systems. The dollar value of the volunteers efforts and community service is not included in these financial statments.