Local Boy Scouts visit Port Townsend TV!

Cub Scout Pack 11 on a field trip to Port Townsend Television. They made a commercial while there, for Cub Scouts! Jonathan Stratman, presenting.

No longer PTTV: Television for people who don't like television

4/23/2008 11:01:00 AM

By Barney Burke

"People who say, 'I don't watch TV,'" says Jonathan Stratman, provide the biggest challenge in programming Port Townsend's community TV station.

Hired in October as director of Port Townsend Television, formerly known as PTTV, Stratman said the station's content is being transformed, and not just because of new equipment.

"It's television for people who don't like television," said Stratman of the increase in homegrown media.

The community station operates on channels 97 and 98, and is managed by the Public, Education, Government (PEG) Access Coordinating Committee comprising city, school, and community representatives.

"Going out in the field is the biggest change," said Karen Nelson, chairwoman of the PEG committee. Last week, the station covered Gov. Chris Gregoire's visit to Port Townsend.

"It's more than sound bites," said Stratford of new programming.

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