Peters Township Community Television History

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2004

STATS & FACTS:

Total programs produced: 629

Total studio shows produced: 309

Most productions (month): 74 (May)

Least productions (month): 8 (July)

Total programming hours: 6,298


Top 5 Studio Shows (# of hours aired):

Last Word in Sports (159)

Ask the Doctor (99)

Ask the Psychologist (97)

Sante: Where Good Food is Good Health (86)

The Scoop on Pilates (81)

Top 5 Sports/Community (# of hours aired):

PTHC Hockey games (149)

PTHS Girls Soccer games (114)

PTHS Wrestling matches (100)

PTHS Boys Soccer games (98)

PTHS Girls Basketball games (87)


MAJOR EQUIPMENT PURCHASED:

10” Color Production Monitors (4)

DVD Recorders (4)

Arrilite 1000 Tungsten Light Kit

Headsets & Belt Packs (11)

DV Compact Editing VTRs (3)

Sony Vegas & Adobe Premiere Pro turnkey editors

JVC RMG870U Edit Controller

Magic Box Aavelin 100

SHOW DEBUTS:

Sante: Where Good Food is Good Health

College Admission & Financial Aid 101

Chartiers Creek Community Church service

STAFF:

Public Access Director: Ryan Boni

Volunteer & Production Coordinator: Debbie Kirtz

PTHS Media Production Teacher: Robin Hodgin-Frick


January

The station buys 3 new digital cameras for the studio

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February

“Let’s Paint…with James Sulkowski” returns after a long hiatus

March

The station played host to a Drug and Alcohol Forum sponsored by the PTHS S.A.D. organization

PTCT began a project to upgrade the video and audio at the Peters Township Council Chambers with the help of the Peters Township Public Works Department.  Work included placing cables into the riser to eliminate clutter, rewire components, add additional microphones, mount the video projector and overall aesthetic improvements,

April

Peters Township Community Television worked with the Peters Twp. Character Counts Initiative to create a video highlighting the first five years of Character Counts in Peters Township.

July

The station purchases an Adobe Premiere Pro & a Sony Vegas non-linear editing system, which brings the station's complement of NLE's to 4

August

The station purchases its first true lighting kit

Items began to be ordered to satisfy the audio/visual needs of the new Peters Township Community Recreation Center.  These included mounted TVs, an entire remote-controlled control room for videotaping events in the gym and a in-house computerized bulletin board system

September

The Peters Township Community Recreation Center opens

 Linda Vaira becomes the host of "Chamber Focus" 

November

Peters Township Community Television cameras followed the PTHS Boys & Girls Soccer teams on their playoff runs