Contra Costa County, California consists of the cities Concord Clayton, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Martinez among others, and if Robert F. Rothgery has anything to do with it, the county PEG channel will be strong, engaging and sustainable.
According to his blog, Access Contra Costa, Rothgery has been involved with community media since 1974 and was active in the lengthy franchise negotioans with Comcast Cable to secure the current PEG Channel system – Contra Costa TV.
Located on Channel 27 on Comcast and Channel 99 on AT&T U-Verse, Contra Costa TV (CCTV) is the County’s government access cable station and is a public service of the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors which has been airing local, governmental, and educational programming 24/7 since 1994.
Rothgery is truly passionate about public access programming and given his knowledge of the industry, CCTV has quite an advocate on it’s hands if he’s allowed to participate in the process. His posts are in-depth and focused on one thing — making CCTV the best it can be.
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Channel Info: Contra Costa TV
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Thank you for your support. Please allow me to clarify the term “CCTV.” Here we have a Countywide government access channel known as Contra Costa Television, (CCTV). The Access Contra Costa initiative is for public and educational access by way of a NPO contract.
Having said that, there is little support for our P & E proposal among the cities benefiting from the PEG provisions of the franchises. Only Walnut Creek seems ready to grown their G presence in an ambitious and, I think, an exemplary way.