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
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