The ACM is offering a group rate to the ACM National Conference in Pittsburgh July 7-10, 2010, the more after the second person there is a flat rate of $190 for every person afterwards. I thought that this may be an opportunity for JAG to support the national conference and be able to sent members [...]
The ACM is offering a group rate to the ACM National Conference in Pittsburgh July 7-10, 2010, the more after the second person there is a flat rate of $190 for every person afterwards. I thought that this may be an opportunity for JAG to support the national conference and be able to sent members who are interested in going to a national conference the ability to do so at a cost savings. So if 3 members wanted to attend cost would be $870, 4 members $1060, 5 members $1250. In order to get the discount the tier level registration the attendees must be registered under one company, JAG. If this is something you think JAG and the members would be interested you need to act now as the early bird rate ends by April 30th
Sincerely,
Stephanie Gibbons
Chair, ACM Mid-Atlantic Region
Email for more information: stgibbons@verizon.net
A day of workshops will follow, focusing on the partners that keep community media a vital element in our society. Staffers and volunteers will hear from experts on subjects of technology, operations, and production. From concept to completion workshops will discuss skills to increase the quality of programs, workflow, distribution, and community involvement. Don’t plan on [...]
A day of workshops will follow, focusing on the partners that keep community media a vital element in our society. Staffers and volunteers will hear from experts on subjects of technology, operations, and production. From concept to completion workshops will discuss skills to increase the quality of programs, workflow, distribution, and community involvement. Don’t plan on a lot of lectures. Many workshops will invite attendees to participate and share their knowledge and experience.
Value out weighs cost.
Full conference registration includes the “Meet and Greet,” breakfast with the vendors the first day and a breakfast plenary the second day, lunch with guest speakers both days, and an amazing banquet complete with cocktail hour, a Portuguese Rodizio dinner, beer and sangria, dessert buffet, live music and dancing. The Hyatt has agreed to provide free parking and free internet. These represent a value of over $250 but will be available to members for the early bird price of $200. And if you can get four others from your center to join you the price is just $160 each. There will also be many door prizes valued at over $5,000. Hotel accommodations are $119.00 per night. Rooms are available for the entire week. Train to New York City and Newark Liberty Airport are just two blocks away. Why not make it a vacation?
JAG and the Mid-Atlantic Region has become known for it’s banquet and this years event will be no exception. All you can eat and drink, live music, dancing and always a surprise or two are the ingredients. More importantly an opportunity to meet new people, make new friends and celebrate our successes. During the two [...]
JAG and the Mid-Atlantic Region has become known for it’s banquet and this years event will be no exception. All you can eat and drink, live music, dancing and always a surprise or two are the ingredients. More importantly an opportunity to meet new people, make new friends and celebrate our successes. During the two days of the conference we will be working hard. This is the time to play hard.
We will be going to the Seabra’s Armory, a Portuguese restaurant, located on the waterfront of historic Perth Amboy, NJ. Seabra’s Armory is a hidden jewel that showcases a unique and beautiful view of the Raritan Bay and the New York borough of Staten Island. This completely restored naval ammunition building was once used during World Wars I & II and is now acclaimed to be one of New Jersey’s finest historical treasures. This monumental establishment is home to Seabra’s Armory Banquet Facility and the Casa Seabra Restaurant.
The evening starts on the third floor in a private bar over looking the harbor. Beer, wine, sangria and soda are provided free with other drinks available for purchase. An array of hors d’oeuvres will set the stage for the feast to come.
We will move to the dining room, to the music of Los Mas Valientes, for a Brazilian style barbecue “Rodizio” dinner. The meal will feature waiters serving 15 different kinds of meat on skewers which include assorted beef, pork, chicken, turkey, buffalo, and alligator. Add to that an assortment of Latin music and you will be swept away in the excitement of the banquet.
Formed in 1995 , Los Mas Valientes brings together some of today’s finest Latin musicians. Collectively, the band’s resume reads like a who’s-who of New York’s jazz and Latin music scene. Los Mas Valientes plays original Latin jazz compositions, innovative arrangements of Latin jazz standards, and classic Latin dance music.
Their creative originals draw on the traditions of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Brazil, Haiti and Jamaica, giving them a unique and highly-danceable pan-Latino and pan-Caribbean sound. As a dance band, their influences are Tito Puente, Alegre All-Stars, Cachao, Los Van-Van, Celia Cruz, Johnny Pacheco, and the Fania All-Stars. In Latin jazz, we have been inspired by Return to Forever, Fort Apache Band, Santana, Dizzy Gillespie and Mongo Santamaria, and the folklore of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and New Orleans.
Bring your appetite and plan on doing some dancing cause the music may start off nice and easy but this band is hot and their salsa will end up rocking the house. Don’t worry about transportation. Buses will be provided.
An event not to me missed.
On this day plan to spend time with the partners that provide the products and services that make it possible for community media to exist. This is a one day trade show with over 40 exhibitors presenting the newest technology focusing on the needs of PEG stations. There will be presentations throughout the day demonstrating the latest [...]
On this day plan to spend time with the partners that provide the products and services that make it possible for community media to exist. This is a one day trade show with over 40 exhibitors presenting the newest technology focusing on the needs of PEG stations. There will be presentations throughout the day demonstrating the latest in system applications and hardware that will have just been release weeks before at The National Broadcasters Association Conference. Special training workshops are also being planned.
Through partnerships with vendors there will be a full production studio consisting of the latest equipment being exhibited at the trade show. The studio will be taping programs throughout the day with ample time for attendees to examine the equipment.
Our partnering will reach out to the educational community to include the area high schools, vocational schools, colleges, and universities. Students interested in media will be afforded the opportunity to participate in a day-long program that will include time to visit with the exhibitors.
“Public and other Noncommercial Media in the Digital Era” Washington, D.C. — As part of its project on the Future of Media and the Information Needs of Communities, the Federal Communications Commission will hold a workshop on April 30, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Commission Meeting Room, Room TW-C305, at 445 [...]
“Public and other Noncommercial Media in the Digital Era”
Washington, D.C. — As part of its project on the Future of Media and the Information Needs of Communities, the Federal Communications Commission will hold a workshop on April 30, 2010, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Commission Meeting Room, Room TW-C305, at 445 12th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C., on noncommercial media entitled “Public and Other Noncommercial Media in the Digital Era.” The workshop will focus on:
- The current structures and activities of public and other noncommercial media entities, as well as relevant government policies;
- The ways in which public and other noncommercial media entities do and could contribute to the information needs of communities across multiple platforms, focusing in particular on journalism, cultural, and educational content;
- The possibilities for greater collaboration among noncommercial media entities such as public broadcasters, PEG channels, noncommercial web-based outlets, and other new media entities;
- The role of public and other noncommercial media in serving the information needs of the underserved, including language minorities, ethnic minorities, children, the disabled, and the economically disadvantaged;
- The infrastructure needs and assets of public and other noncommercial media in delivering information to communities;
- Innovative uses of social media, gaming, Internet applications, citizen journalism, mobile technologies, and other technological and organizational innovations; and
- The possibilities for new kinds of noncommercial media networks and associated funding models.
Open captioning of the workshop will be provided. Other reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are available upon request. Please include a description of the accommodation you will need, and a way that we can contact you if we need more information. Last-minute requests will be accepted, but may not be possible to fill. Send an e-mail to fcc504@fcc.gov or call the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau at 202-418-0530 (voice), 202-418-0432 (tty).
For further information, contact Krista Witanowski, Media Bureau, (202) 418-2449.
If you are asking yourself this very question, than read the following information below and click on the link at the bottom and download a copy of this information. This is something you want to keep posted at your station! PLEASE PLACE THIS INFORMATION IN A LOCATION WHERE IT MAY BE VIEWED BY ALL WHO [...]
If you are asking yourself this very question, than read the following information below and click on the link at the bottom and download a copy of this information. This is something you want to keep posted at your station!
PLEASE PLACE THIS INFORMATION IN A LOCATION WHERE IT MAY BE VIEWED BY ALL WHO MIGHT NEED TO USE IT.
PEG SIGNAL QUALITY or OUTAGE ISSUES
Verizon understands the importance of Public, Education and Government (PEG) programming and the need to address/resolve signal quality and outage issues as quickly as possible. Therefore, it is Verizon’s pleasure to announce that Verizon’s National Network Management Center (NNMC) will now be available to PEG Programming providers should PEG signal quality or outage issues occur.
The NNMC is staffed with experienced Network Specialists currently working with national broadcast providers. The NNMC will provide efficient and expeditious resolution of PEG signal quality or outage issues. The NNMC is available 24×7 and will immediately initiate PEG troubleshooting eliminating the need to call your FiOS TV Franchise Management team when a problem occurs. Your FiOS TV Franchise Management team will remain a resource to PEG providers on PEG signal quality and outage issues as necessary and for all other Verizon video franchise concerns.
WHAT PEG PROGRAM PROVIDERS NEED TO DO:
- Call the NNMC at 1-800-243-6994, then Option 2, Option 2 (this number is strictly for PEG channel service & outage issues)
- Identify yourself as a PEG Provider
- Provide the municipality name, channel number(s) affected and brief description of the problem
- Provide a telephone call back number, cell preferably, and building access information should the need to dispatch a Verizon technician be required.
WHAT VERIZON’S NNMC WILL DO:
- The NNMC will troubleshoot the Verizon Network to determine if the problem is the Network
- If necessary, a dispatch to the PEG programming origination site will be arranged
PLEASE NOTE
The NNMC is not responsible for provisioning PEG channels, nor the PEG monitoring free service drop. The PEG monitoring drop is a subscriber drop used for viewing PEG channels on the FiOS TV network. For any PEG related issues other than signal quality or an outage as described above please email: nj-peg@verizon.com.
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We’ve been covering Verizon’s decision to suspend FiOS deployment in many neighborhoods for much of the last month, discussing how cities like Alexandria, Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland are more than a little annoyed that they won’t be getting upgraded from last-generation DSL. The company is continuing builds in cities that have signed franchise agreements, but [...]
We’ve been covering Verizon’s decision to suspend FiOS deployment in many neighborhoods for much of the last month, discussing how cities like Alexandria, Virginia and Baltimore, Maryland are more than a little annoyed that they won’t be getting upgraded from last-generation DSL. The company is continuing builds in cities that have signed franchise agreements, but for all intent and purposes — the great FiOS experiment has ended — prematurely. This week we finally saw the press wake up to the news of FiOS’s grinding halt after the Associated Press noticed what was going on. Most of the coverage repeats some variation of Verizon’s position that they never promised you, the users, full coverage:
Verizon never committed to bringing FiOS to its entire local-phone service area. It has introduced FiOS in 16 states, but the deployment is concentrated on the East Coast, and Verizon is selling off most of its service areas in the Midwest and on the West Coast. Its stated goal was to make FiOS available to 18 million households by the end of 2010, and it’s on track to reach or exceed that.
While it’s true that Verizon never promised to deploy FiOS to their entire footprint, the AP doesn’t tell you the telco was previously planning to deploy FiOS to cities like Baltimore and Alexandria, and this freeze is a change of plans. Verizon originally hoped to pass about 85% of their available customers through several deployment waves. Right now, Verizon’s own data suggests that 48% of all Verizon-served homes are passed (this doesn’t always mean service is available) by FiOS.
That number will grow as Verizon works on building out service in cities like DC, NYC, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. But while Verizon has promised to deploy service to everyone in these cities, the fine print in those contracts (usually hashed out in private between cities and Verizon) usually allows Verizon to stop deployment after hitting the most profitable neighborhoods — should they not see satisfactory TV uptake. Once Verizon picks the best parts of these cities, total FiOS penetration might be as high as 65%.
That still leaves a huge chunk of Verizon customers on last-generation infrastructure, many of them in rural markets or in second or third-tier cities. Meanwhile, there’s no indication that there’s going to be a “second wave” of FiOS deployment.
What changed? For one, Verizon wants to stop and market the service in already deployed markets to boost penetration. They also want to pause and contemplate whether they can grab some taxpayer money. Early Verizon lobbyist attempts to grab funds for doing nothing didn’t work out, and Verizon avoided the first round of funding because they didn’t like conditions tied to the money. Obviously network builds aren’t cheap, and Verizon’s move to spend $23 billion on FiOS was a gutsy choice. Unfortunately for more than 40% of Verizon customers, it was a gutsy choice championed largely by one man.
The primary reason for the Verizon FiOS halt is that FiOS’s biggest fan, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, is on his way out at the company. Seidenberg was big on solidifying Verizon’s future with FiOS, and was more than willing to pour money back into the network. Investors of course eager for immediate returns complained, going so far as to claim Verizon was “doomed.” But Seidenberg’s bet paid off, and Verizon created the largest fiber to the home network in the western world.
But Seidenberg’s replacements are more interested in satisfying short-term, often myopic investors, and are busily pushing their vision of the new, more investor-friendly Verizon. This includes slowing FiOS deployment, and using sophisticated financial tricks to offload unwanted networks (and debt) onto smaller companies (tax free). Verizon then hopes to fill in any FiOS gaps with LTE wireless broadband. Knowing these companies can’t really afford to upgrade, Verizon can win back many of these sold-off DSL customers with faster LTE service in a few years.
The plan isn’t particularly good news for the millions of Verizon DSL customers who were waiting for FiOS. It’s not good news for the tens of thousands of employees Verizon’s laying off. It’s not good news for Verizon’s hardware vendor partners like BigBand Networks. It’s not good news for the smaller telcos that are gobbling up Verizon copper-based networks (and going bankrupt under Verizon debt) without realizing the LTE counter punch Verizon has planned down the road.
But it is good news for investors who think real network upgrades aren’t necessary for the health of a company. It’s also good news for cable operators who do business in these unwanted markets and won’t have to worry about an expedited timeline to upgrade to next-generation infrastructure. Verizon was the only major U.S. carrier with the insight and courage to embrace fiber to the home, and it appears, with a few urban exceptions, that the party is over.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/The-Press-Realizes-The-FiOS-Party-Is-Over-107639
