Comments on: CTN: What’s The Vision for Local Television?

By: Vivienne Armentrout

Vivienne Armentrout — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:08:05 +0000

I’ve been very pleased by the videos now available on the city website from CTN footage. They are indexed by item and highly accessible. Since I don’t have cable (a beef with Comcast, not with CTN), I’m not able to watch Other Perspectives even in replay so will miss the Newshawks show tomorrow (Oct. 18, 7:00 p.m. Channel 17) and will have to wait till it gets to the (citizen-produced) website archive. We are really fortunate to have CTN and I’m grateful that so many governmental meetings are now covered.

By: Dave Chappell

Dave Chappell — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:34:50 +0000

You have an article dated August 11th 2011, about the relevancy of CTN base on a remark made over 2 years ago at a city council meeting in May of 2009. Sounds like sour grapes to me. You got the audio transcripts of the meeting you were looking for. Until CTN becomes the official holder for documents you have go thru city council for any past minutes of their meetings. By the luck of the draw it seems that you just pick an meeting that the video record was not available because of technical issues. Like I said, sounds like sour grapes.

By: TeacherPatti

TeacherPatti — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:25:41 +0000

This just reminds me that I have to get off my lazy booty and work on my once and future BEER SHOW :) CTN is awesome…the people who work there couldn’t be nicer.

By: Jim Rees

Jim Rees — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:21:52 +0000

Why doesn’t the City make the audio tapes routinely available for some reasonable fee?

By: Alan Goldsmith

Alan Goldsmith — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:43:32 +0000

So we have no way to measure viewer numbers for the over-the-cable broadcasts but can for online accesses? It’s amazing with this large of a budget, taken from a 5% tax on local cable bills, this effort can pay for a boatload of staff but there are not enough funds for letting me watch CTN on my ATT Uverse system. Why not?

By: Ben Connor Barrie

Ben Connor Barrie — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:50:20 +0000

I would really like to see CTN videos online in a more user friendly format. I think it could really increase public participation in local politics if it were easy to embed city council meetings on other websites and blogs. I realize there are issues with using a service like YouTube for hosting, but it’s worth noting that YouTube provides a free video hosting and allows people to post videos on their own sites.

By: Matt Hampel

Matt Hampel — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:15:18 +0000

Re. long-term online storage, I think it is worth noting that the Ann Arbor District Library already has infrastructure for long-term video hosting as well as a local history mandate. There's no reason why CTN couldn't negotiate a sharing agreement with the Library.

By: Dave Askins

Dave Askins — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:46:38 +0000

Re: [1] The table reflects that for May there were 9 views of planning commission meetings through the online video on demand service – that does not include viewership through ordinary television sets.

By: Dave Cahill

Dave Cahill — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:39:22 +0000

I’m confused. Does the table above mean that only 9 people watched the Planning Commission meeting when it was originally broadcast? Or through its on-line video demand service? Or both? Or something else?