Peters Township Community Television History
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2014
STATS & FACTS:
Total programs produced: 529
Total studio shows produced: 333
Most productions (month): 80 (May)
Least productions (month): 9 (July)
Total programming hours: 10,691
Total online show views (Vimeo): 5,213
Total website views: 9,477
Top 5 Studio Shows (# of hours aired):
Talking Politics in Western PA (567)
Let’s Talk Healthy Pets (482)
Things They Usually Don’t Teach You (326)
Inside Media Weekly (307)
Headlines (301)
Top 5 Sports/Community (# of hours aired):
PTHS Commencement (346)
The PTSA (387)
PTHC Hockey games (266)
PTHS Boys Basketball games (258)
PTHS Swimming/Diving meets (248)
5 Most Watched shows online:
Peters Township Council (444)
School Board Meetings (351)
Peters Twp. Planning Commission (151)
Let’s Talk Healthy Pets (273)
Things They Usually Don’t Teach You (265)
MAJOR EQUIPMENT PURCHASED:
AJA FS 2 Frame Synchronizers (2)
Blackmagic Design Broadcast Converters (8)
Blackmagic Design Smartscope Duo Waveform/Vectorscope (2)
ASUS ET2702-02 Editor PCs (2)
Presonus Studio Live 24.4.2AL 24-channel audio mixer
STAFF:
Public Access Director: Ryan Boni
Volunteer & Production Coordinator: Kelsey Sylvester
PTHS Television Broadcast & Media Production Teacher: Robin Hodgin-Frick
January
Purchased a wall-mounted television for the Caucus Room in the Municipal Building
Brand-new all-in-one touchscreen Sony Vegas Pro Editors are purchased to replace 2 old editing computers
February
Kelsey Sylvester joins the PTCT Staff as the Volunteer and Production Coordinator
May
The Municipal Channel Bulletin Board was given a complete make-over which now enabled viewers to get real-time time and weather information, to be able to watch Township promo videos and to see an automatically updated events/meetings page, TV schedule, and a page of Township-related Twitter feeds.
PTCT created a Township video promo which was played at Peters Township Night at the Washington Wild Things Baseball game.
August
Purchased a 24-channel Presonus Studio Live 24.4.2AI audio mixer
Peters Township Community Television staff recorded footage of the Peters Township Environmental Quality Board’s tour of Waste Management's Recycling facility in Neville Island. This was the beginning of the production of a Township Recycling Video that will debut in 2015 to educate the residents on the new automated recycling collection process
September
Two new shows debuted (“There is a Future, and it is Coming…” and “Bursting the Bubble”) and two shows were re-named to better reflect the content of the show (“Tapping with Joan” became “The Tapping Revolution” and “Let’s Talk Healthy Pets” became “Healthy Pets, Healthy Owners”)
October
The Public Access Channel bulletin board was upgraded
December
Two new series debuted on PTCT: “Getting to Know You” and “Village of Venetia Events”