Mendocino Access Television is a public service media that informs, engages and give voice to the county's diverse sectors, paving way for them to connect and share stories with each other. We are improving on a suite of public media services, tools, and opportunities that strengthen and support the cultural, educational, and civic fabric of our city. We are transitioning from public access facili
ty and broadcast signal developing as a transmedia community center of the future, delivering a suite of integrated services, platforms, training, and community engagement opportunities that will offer Mendocino county residents and organizations serving them new ways to connect with each. The future of MATV as a public media is to inform the community, but also to engage them as students, teachers, creators, advocates, and citizens. We provide opportunity for community members to identify issues and work collaboratively toward solutions. As providers of access television to Mendocino community, MATV finds it necessary to help the community make educated choices on using our television services to communicate or promote their ideas, business or course. MATV is the voice of the community, we make available communication, production, and distribution facilities for primary use by residents and community organizations of Mendocino County for public, educational, and governmental purposes; We organize, manage, promote, and facilitate the use of the aforesaid facilities for communication by cable or any other communications methods. We exercise all powers allowable as a California nonprofit corporation. As big corporations determine everything we see on television, the internet gives many people unlimited options for news and entertainment. Yet television still delivers the powerful ideas, images and messages to the city dweller. Our new plans to make Mendocino Access Television the primary local television source for Mendocino diverse community groups, political forums, local news, parades, festivals, cutting edge music and much more. With a solid multimedia
electronic presence, we will support groups and individuals involved with youth activities, seniors, culture, ethnic diversity, politics, social justice, labor, the peace movement, the disabled, faith, the environment, the arts. Not leaving out diverse points of view and interests of people who could never gain access to the television media in any other way. We iwork with community and media students at the Mendocino College, and Mendocino High Schools to provide volunteers and interns. We maintain and improve the current training and operations programs currently running at the channel and dramatically increase the number of shows produced by MATV.
