Helping your voice be heard in our community! We're attending the Alliance for Community Media national conference in Portland. Opening Session begins... #ACMPDX West Region - Alliance for Community Media Mike Wassenaar AllianceforCommMedia

ACM President Mike Wassenaar describing community media today: "We're on a precarious path. Media contraction means jobs are moving out of the local area, farther away from our living experience and actual lives. We've never been needed more." #ACMPDX West Region - Alliance for Community Media AllianceforCommMedia

ACM President Mike Wassenaar reminds community media centers "The work we do must be indispensable to the lives of the communities we serve." #ACMPDX West Region - Alliance for Community Media ACM Northeast AllianceforCommMedia

Access Tv experts talking about taking the cable channel video to other platforms like Apple TV and Roku #ACMPDX Access Sacramento Mike Wassenaar AllianceforCommMedia

ACM national conference: Journalist Jesse Hardman "We need real simple ways for people to get the information they need." #ACMPDX AllianceforCommMedia Mike Wassenaar West Region - Alliance for Community Media

ACM West Conference and trade show opening in Monterey with news for Public, Education and Government community media centers like Access Sacramento. J Robertson is the board chair for ACM West.

Monterey Mayor Clyde Roberson welcoming community broadcasters to the Alliance for Community Media West Region Conference at Embassy Suites Monterey Seaside. Saying thanks to AMP (Access Monterey Peninsula) for bringing meetings and public content to their community. ACM West

Mayor Roberson says "We need AMP because you're giving the direct message. No filtering... Through AMP we have hundreds and thousands of people who are watching. WE want to make sure we continue that and the City of Monterey is committed to that.

Attorney Harriet Steiner of Best Best & Krieger's Sacramento office commenting that Access channels across the county need to keep communicating in order to combat an FCC 621 order that challenges the money that supports public, education & government broadcasters. West Region - Alliance for Community Media

Attorney Jim Horwood of Spiegel & McDiarmid speaking ACM West commenting that the FCC's 621 order challenging community cable channels doesn't make sense. Reducing payments for providing the channels is monetary cost, not a capital cost. It's the cost of doing business.

On the FCC 621 order affecting community media channels: "This order does not grandfather anyone in. This order says, today we're going to make changes to existing cable orders," says Steiner. "Here you have no time and it's a challenge to the constitution." West Region - Alliance for Community Media West Region - Alliance for Community Media

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Chatting today about the value of community media and the local media voice with US Rep. Doris Matsui and aides in Sen. Feinstein and Harris’ offices.

Opening session of the ACM West Conference in Sacramento. Experts telling why community media broadcasting to their neighbors is so important!