Deep Dish TV

Deep Dish TV

"For 22 years deep Dish has been a laboratory for new, democratic and empowering ways to make and distribute video. It has been a hub linking thousands of artists, independent videomakers, programmers and social activists. The network has produced and distributed over 300 hours of television series that challenge the suppression of awareness, the corruption of language, and the perversion of logic that characterizes so much of corporate media...

"At the heart of the Deep Dish TV network have been the public access television stations, and now the public interest channels on the satellite networks:Free Speech TV on the Dish Network and LinkTV on DirecTv.

"Deep Dish TV and other program producers have reached millions of people through the public access channels that cable companies are required to provide. Cable corporations are pushing to eliminate these channels. Though constantly embattled, these channels for free expression and community communication have continued to expand. As technology improves and cable analog television is slowly replaced by newer digital technology, these public access channels may be lost. It is essential that as the technology advances, commercial use of the public spectrum and municipal rights-of-way must provide the public with access to technology and the means to communicate.

"Deep Dish TV also has a long history of collaboration with other independent media organizations. And this collaboration is building a rapidly growing audience that depends on independent media as a vital source of information and inspiration. Deep Dish TV produced the first year of the TV version of Pacifica Radio Network program Democracy Now ! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Democracy Now!, Paper Tiger TV, INN World Reports and dozens of media groups provide programs to public access television.

"Many use the global network of over 100 Independent Media Centers for stories. Deep Dish was instrumental in founding the first Indymedia Center in Seattle and has worked to enlarge that network to include hubs in Africa, Asia and Latin America."


 * Acting Director - Brian Drolet
 * Outreach - Mark Read
 * Project Co-ordinator Emeritus - Elvira England
 * Development - DeeDee Halleck

Directors
Accessed April 2008:


 * Mario Murillo
 * Robin Andersen
 * Dread Scott
 * Simin Farkondeh
 * Alex Rivera
 * Brian Drolet
 * Asif Ullah

Contact

 * Web: http://www.deepdishtv.org