Fritz Gisler, the city’s Television Center manager, shows off a control room to Ward 1 City Council member Sarah Marsh during a recent new alderman tour of the facility.
Photo by Todd Gill
City officials will celebrate the Fayetteville Television Center’s 20th anniversary on Thursday, Jan. 31.
The public is invited to the event, set to begin at 4:30 p.m. inside the center at 101 W. Rock St. in downtown Fayetteville.
The building, located across the street from the police department, houses the Fayetteville Government Channel, the city’s public access channel, and is home to the Fayetteville Media Services Division.
The center also trains Fayetteville residents in production skills, provides free use of camera and editing equipment for residents to produce their own programming, and assists various city departments and divisions with presentations.
Following an open house reception, Mayor Lioneld Jordan; Fritz Gisler, Television Center manager; and Dan Robinson, executive director of the city’s public access service provider, Your Media, will speak at a facility rededication ceremony at 5:15 p.m.
Self-guided tours of the center are planned from 5:30 to 7 p.m. An acoustic performance by local musician Benjamin Del Shreve is set for 6 p.m.
From a recent news release:
If you have not toured the City’s Television Center, this is a wonderful opportunity to see where fun, productivity, open government, free speech, art, discovery and enlightenment, history, new friendships, inclusion, public service, government transparency and accountability, and deliberation and commentary all converge in Fayetteville. If you have visited the Center in the past, you know it is an exciting place, and we think you will appreciate the City’s extensive improvements. We hope you will come and celebrate the re-dedication of the City of Fayetteville Television Center and the next 20 years of City-supported television in Fayetteville.
For more information, contact the center at 479-444-3434.
Happy anniversary, thanks for the truly locally produced media and opportunities for the public to become involved, produce and learn about televised media. Dgold, Honest FM
Truly an excellent facility to have access to. And the people running it are top-notch (thanks Dan and Fritz!)
This is a true community resource that is only getting better and better. Full credit due to Dan, his predecessor Anne Shelley, and Fritz for the fine job they do, as well as the expert work from J.R. and Flint at the center.
Isn’t this what YouTube is for. This only appeals to an aging generation.
The local content from these stations can be viewed online too, CVP. Who do you think makes youtubes? Resources from Fayetteville “TV” Center (such as “Your Media”) provide cameras, teach video editing, and other principles of media-production and public access, helping to produce higher-quality and more Arkansas-oriented video that can be viewed on sites like youtube.
To put it simply you can go here to learn to make better youtubes, or you can go to youtube and see videos that were produced by local people at this facility. It’s for all generations.
+1 Dgold.
The resources available to Fayetteville citizens, not only in terms of sets and equipment, but also in terms on instruction and support, are fantastic.
? It isn’t hard for people to edit a video, you can do it on a cellphone.
You’re right. YouTube and Vine are just rife with quality programming and excellent production value.
Very cool
Our public television center is an incredible resource for the community. I’ve been taking international students from the university to visit the center for years now and they’re always quite impressed, especially that we have a government-sponsored public television station devoted to promoting the First Amendment. Fritz Giesler has done a great job – overseeing a renovation and increasing the visibility of the programs offered at the center. If anyone has dreams of making a documentary the center has everything one would need to learn how. I hope I can make it tonight to help celebrate!