TV-36 Media Advisory Board
Town of Westfield

To Cable TV Viewers: TV-36 wants to hear from you!

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Community access channel TV-36, operated by the Town of Westfield and
the Board of Education, is exploring opportunities to increase and enhance
programming on TV-36. The possibilities are limited only by our imagination.
The priorities are determined by you. Help us understand your needs and
interests by selecting or commenting on any item in this three-page survey:

What school-oriented programs would you like to see broadcast on TV-36?
  School Board meetings  PTA meetings   talks for parents
  call-ins to administrators  call-ins to guidance  call-ins to faculty
  academic discussions   student activities   school life features
  student-produced videos  student news shows  student projects
  plays and concerts   sports events   assemblies
  art shows    awards presentations ______________

What community-oriented programs would you like to see on TV-36?
  Town Council meetings  call-ins to elected officials and Town staff
  talks and presentations  community events
  seniors issues    community talk shows
  youth issues    shows featuring community organizations
  music and drama   community sports
  local celebrities   _______________________________

What kinds of programs are you most interested in seeing on TV-36?  What kinds of programs on TV-36 do you think might attract the most viewers
among Westfield's 7000 cable subscribers?

The federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires that Comcast provide
a community channel for use by Westfield. How would you suggest spending programming dollars that might be available to TV-36 from a variety of sources?
  organizing volunteers
  buying equipment
  hiring camera people to record meetings and events
  buying programs
  building a community television studio
  _______________________________________

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Businesses, organizations and individuals can sponsor programs they wish
to encourage, and get on-screen credit for their generous support. Can you
make an offer of support for your program idea, or do you have a suggestion
that would connect a business you patronize with TV-36?

What are your favorite sources of community life in Westfield?
  entertainment   social gatherings   fliers
  recreation   peer discussions  brochures
  dining    telephone to friends  e-mail
  stores/businesses  telephone/business  web sites
  meetings    face-to-face contact  TV-36 bulletin board
  organizations   networking   TV-36 programs
  activities    talks by experts   videotapes and films
  schools    newspapers   library
  religious institutions  newsletters   _________________

How might you play a leadership role in community life in Westfield?
 

Volunteers are the heart of community television. Would you be willing to:
  work behind the scenes to help build a TV-36 volunteer organization
  volunteer to be an on-camera expert or personality, give presentations, etc.
  volunteer to record school or community events you attend
  stake a piece of the 24-hour seven-day-per-week schedule as a producer
  would rather that TV-36 pay students and others to record programs
  _______________________________________

Which areas of new technology would you favor to improve TV-36:
  moderately-priced quality cameras for cinematography and videojournalism
  a proposed self-service, crew-less community television studio
  viewer e-mail and telephone call-ins live to TV-36
  state-of-the-art business-style presentation technology
  stereo sound on TV-36
  integrating the Internet and TV-36 to broadcast web pages and web cam
  digital video and audio editing on desktop computers

Would you be interested in TV-36 training/orientation workshops?
  would participate  would organize and/or lead  not interested
  __________________________
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Would you suggest that local organizations produce:
  electronic bulletin board messages  one-minute announcements
  five-minute features    fifteen-minute programs
  half-hour programs    one-hour programs
  live      pre-recorded

When viewing a live TV-36 program, would you:
  e-mail comments and questions to the studio  call in by telephone
  send a letter  discuss topic with friends  wouldn't participate

A schedule of TV-36 programs should appear:
  in the newspaper  on the Internet   on TV-36's bulletin board

If school and community events were available, possibly for a fee, on videotape or DVD disk at the library, or viewable on the Internet, would you be interested?
  videotapes  DVD's  Internet  would pay fee  not interested

Electronic bulletin board messages on TV-36 during non-program times can be scheduled in a variety of ways. Please choose the options you prefer:
  keep the sequence of bulletin board messages as it is now
  play urgent messages mostly
  play new messages mostly
  play urgent or timely messages at scheduled times each hour, like newsradio
  play certain categories of messages at selected times of the day only
 ____________________________

Messages on TV-36's electronic bulletin board should be composed of
  text  graphic art  photographs  audio  video

Would you look for messages on TV-36's electronic bulletin board:
  anytime    at particular time(s)_____________________

What generation of Westfielder are you?
  senior  middle  30-40's  young adult  teen  child

If you can volunteer, please give your name and telephone number:
 

Thank you for helping TV-36 find ways to help our community. Please send
completed questionnaire to TV-36, Westfield Town Hall, 425 East Broad Street,
Westfield NJ 07090, fax 908-233-3077,  phone 908-789-4041 M-F 8:30a-4:30p.
or send it by e-mail to: editor@westfieldnj.com