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SPEAKER 1: The Jefferson Cable Corporation's community
channel 10 serving Charlottesville.
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SPEAKER 2: Local origination on cable 10 provided
nearly 650 hours of programming for our subscribers
during the seven month period ending July 31, 1975.
To arrive at a better understanding of the community
service provided through these productions,
this report attempts to recap the nature of programs we
have produced and cable cast.
CHARLES BARBOUR: Call the hearing closed.
The matter of full council.
Mr. Van Yahres.
One very general question--
SPEAKER 2: Although the local government category does not
include a wide variety.
Productions in this area are among the most time consuming
for our staff.
We provide live coverage of the city council's
regular sessions, which begin at 7:30
PM on the first and third Mondays each month.
This period, the meetings have been an average
of two hours and 45 minutes.
However, some have been as short as one hour,
and others as long as 4 and 1/2 hours.
SPEAKER 3: Presently running and managing Jefferson cable
in Charlottesville.
And our present intention is to make no changes in personnel,
and to bring no executives down, and to try
to allow the same personnel as much leeway
as possible in setting policy and determining--
ascertaining the needs of the community, especially
in regard to the local programming matters.
SPEAKER 4: Public employees requesting a mere 6.5% increase
will do them some good.
I thank you.
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SPEAKER 2: During March, we provided
coverage of a special public hearing
on the city government and city school
budgets, which was conducted in a gymnasium
to provide adequate space for the anticipated crowd.
Setup for this coverage required most of the day
for most of the staff.
additional special coverage from the city council chambers
came in April when the final budget vote
was taken, and in June when the vote
to allow sale of Jefferson Cable was taken.
The low level of available lights
necessitates use of black and white cameras
in the city council chambers.
RALPH JAMES: And I think the people in this town
deserve to have better figures on these things
before votes are in, please.
Thank you, sir.
SPEAKER 5: What's your name again?
RALPH JAMES: Ralph James.
SPEAKER 5: Thank you very much.
Thank you.
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ALLIE MEADE: My name is Allie Meade,
and I represent the SPCA.
SPEAKER 7: What is the employment situation?
How high is it for an unprofessional or unskilled
person, maybe just not black person, to get a job?
SPEAKER 2: The five city council press conferences conducted
during this period were cable cast in color
because they were carried live from our studio.
The format for these press conferences
usually included two or three counselors responding
to questions from news reporters,
as well as those phoned in by the viewing audience.
The amplified telephone on the show's set
allowed the cable vision subscriber
to address his or her question directly to the counselors.
SPEAKER 8: And then on a more practical level, the employment
situation for young people in this area.
SPEAKER 9: OK.
Motivation.
All of us need to be motivated.
And all of us who have accomplished something
was motivated for a reason.
SPEAKER 10: Gather around with "Roundabout Recreation."
The Charlottesville Department of--
SPEAKER 2: Charlottesville's very active Department
of Parks and Recreation used a series
of 15 minute monthly shows to publicize its many offerings.
Classes highlighted through roundabout recreation
included ceramics, volleyball, tennis, softball,
and this program about activities planned
for senior citizens month.
SPEAKER 11: Today, we're going to talk about older Americans.
And I'd like to introduce the people with me.
SPEAKER 12: Jefferson and Peter Jefferson.
And Jefferson had a good home life in the county.
He loved horses.
Jefferson was a splendid rider.
Always had a good--
SPEAKER 2: Community history is one
of our most popular, and after 3 and 1/2 years,
longest running features.
Show host Bernard Chamberlain is a semi-retired Albemarle county
attorney.
At age 77, he is a man who has experienced as well as studied
much of the history of our community.
During the winter and spring, he devoted most of his program
time to updating genealogical histories of families who have
resided in this area since the 1600's.
SPEAKER 12: Time's up.
SPEAKER 2: During the summer months,
Mr. Chamberlain and his assistant Jane Ikenberry,
who is a graduate student at the University of Virginia,
take viewers on tours of historic homes of Albemarle
County.
Using the capabilities of our mobile unit,
we have visited the Will Hoyt home place, Windy No, Stillwen,
Ridgeway, Westover, Ashlawn, and East Belmont.
Community history is included in the local government
classification because this weekly program is produced
in cooperation with the local bicentennial commission, which
is funded jointly by the city and county governments.
During this seven month period, community history,
which is recorded on videotape for multiple replays,
accounted for 41 hours, 30 minutes of programming time.
"Roundabout Recreation," also on the multiple replay system,
accounted for seven hours, 15 minutes.
Live coverage of city council meetings
required 46 hours, 15 minutes, with an additional two hours,
30 minutes for live city council press conferences.
The local government category, January through July 1975,
accounted for 97 hours, 30 minutes, or 15.2% of cable
10's total local origination programming time.