Tri-City TV/Tri-City Community Access televiison (T-CCAT)

The Open Media Globe
Submitted by gottico2 on Mon, 08/03/2009 - 15:32
Contact Information
Individual Applicant Name: 
Tony Gan
About the Center
1. Does your organization currently have a public computer center?: 
No
2. What is the goal of your public computer center? If it currently is not set up do you have organizational capacity for one?: 
With the room we have in our facility, we can easily house a computer center. We can also work to allocate funds for staffing
3. What percentage of content submitted to your station is posted online?: 
90
4. Will your organization's public computer center be available to all members of the general public or a specific population?: 
We will make it available to whomever demonstrates a need. We are open seven days a week with normal business access. We can adjust our hours of operation if needed.
5. Do you charge membership dues or other fees to the population you are proposing to serve?: 
No
Center Capacity
7. For the following questions regarding your center's capacity, are the values current or proposed?: 
Proposed
Public computer center name and type.: 
Tri City Community Access Center
Number of Persons served per 120-hour business week?: 
100
Number of Persons served per 48-hour weekend?: 
50
Center Demographic Information
8. What is the estimated population size of your service area?: 
35000
9. What is your service area identifier?: 
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
10. What age distribution(s) will your center serve?: 
5 to 19 years
20 to 29 years
29 to 39 years
40 to 49 years
50 to 59 years
60 to 69 years
70 and above
11. What ethnicity(s) will your center serve?: 
Hispanic
Non-Hispanic White
Non-Hispanic Black
Non-Hispanic American Indian
Non-Hispanic Asian
Non-Hispanic Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
Non-Hispanic Other
12. What gender(s) will your center serve?: 
Male
Female
13. What is the median household income for the population your center will serve?: 
Less than $9,000
$10,000 - $14,999
$15,000 - $24,999
$25,000 - $34,999
$35,000 - $44,999
$50,000 - $74,999
$75,000 - $99,999
$100,000 - $149,999
$150,000 - $199,999
$200,000 and above
14. What education levels will your center serve?: 
Elementary - Kindergarten to Grade 5
Middle - Grade 6 to Grade 8
Secondary - Grade 8 to Grade 12
College
Masters
Doctorate/Post-Doctorate
15. What is the unemployment rate for your service area?: 
9
16. What describes the language preference of your service area?: 
English - Primary
17. Please describe your center's outreach strategy and how can you reach communities lacking broadband access. : 
We have the ability, through a professional staff and personal connections throughout the community, to reach potential users who otherwise would not have access to this type of service. We have strong ties to non-profit, faith based and activist groups here and have a strong community presence. We also have a high-traffic location with ample signage that would benefit this project
18. If you provide a computer checkout or giveaway program, how many users do you expect to provide equipment or computers?: 
We would work with technicians to provide the highest quality consumer applications available. We would, perhaps, provide both Mac and PC platforms that were compatible with today's operating systems
19. How will you measure the program's impact in reaching disconnected communities and increase broadband adoption?: 
We would include software for video editing, photo editing, word processing and web browsing. We would also establish software safeguards that would eliminate improper use of these facilities. On top of that, we would implement a plan that solicits suggestions and comments from end users by perhaps holding regular meetings with those who use the facilities and those who are volunteers or staff members. The goal would be to ascertain the viability impact and organize
20. Please describe your primary training and educational programs, including curricula, student certification programs, etc.: 
We are equipped and trained to provide video production programs including basic videography and non-linear editing lessons. We have experts in ebay and online retail web use and are certified E-Bay specialists. Since many of our residents have little or no broadband service in their area, a facility like this, centrally located and with basic computer skills lessons to offer, would allow a population that has not enjoyed much computer use the chance to do so. We have a strong elderly and low-income population that would benefit from using computer technology for research, education personal and professional reasons.
20a. How many hours of training do you/expect to provide per person on average through training programs(s)?: 
6-8 hours
20b. How many full-time instructors/facilitators do you/will you employ for broadband and digital literacy training purposes?: 
2 to 4
Other Information
21. Is there evidence that less than 40% of your service population has broadband web access?: 
Yes
22. How will your center provide a $10,000 match of funds?: 
We will seek donations from the general public as well as solicit corporate sponsors. We are proposing a plan to sell the current station's equipment to the cable system and use those monies to fund a portion of our public access station. Some of that 10,000 could come out of those funds.
23. Does your center currently have an online component or plans for an online component?: 
Yes
24. How do you plan to maintain a public computer center?: 
We would , most likely, use contract computer technicians to assist in larger computer issues as well as maintain a staff with some computer familiarity. We would also solicit the help of computer savvy volunteers.
25. How do you plan maintain a website for your station or for the public computer center?: 
We have an in-house website manager who is familiar with web building. If needed we would also engage in web building training classes and utilize whatever assistance is provided through the BTOP
26. Are you interested in enabling your community to directly schedule any portion of your programming schedule?: 
Yes
27. Are you interested in sharing content with other public access TV stations?: 
Yes
28. How many total new home subscribers (households) to broadband do you expect to generate over the entirety of the program?: 
While we cannot give a hard and fast figure, our goal is, through our public access provision, to bring back subscribers who may have elected satellite service over cable. By providing local origination programming, we believe we can offer a service that will add value to the local cable lineup. We anticipate a 3 to 5 percent reconnect from subscribers who have opted out. Our cable provider is reluctant to provide us with those figures.
29. How many total new business and/or institutional subscribers to broadband do you expect to generate?: 
Similar to the above question, we cannot give a hard figure on new connections. We can, however, say that we will be broadcasting live over the internet (as we do already) so our outreach is widespread. We do anticipate the launching of an outreach campaign to educate new businesses and organizations about the benefits of subscribing to cable over satellite so that they can access local programming.