Willamette Falls Television

The Open Media Globe
Submitted by wftvjenelle on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 14:30
Contact Information
Individual Applicant Name: 
Jenelle Neill
About the Center
1. Does your organization currently have a public computer center?: 
No
2. What is the goal of your public computer center? If it currently is not set up do you have organizational capacity for one?: 
Become the anchor institution for local support and training in communications and technology through skill building in multimedia. WFTV strives to provide local communication solutions with a skill based workforce.
3. What percentage of content submitted to your station is posted online?: 
2
4. Will your organization's public computer center be available to all members of the general public or a specific population?: 
The general public residing within our service areas primarily.
5. Do you charge membership dues or other fees to the population you are proposing to serve?: 
No
6. What is the disabilities status for members in your area? Check all that apply.: 
Blindness, Deafness or a severe vision or hearing impairment.
A condition that substantially limits one or more basic physical activities such as walking, climbing stairs, reaching, lifting or carrying.
A physical, mental or emotional condition lasting 6 months or more.
Center Capacity
7. For the following questions regarding your center's capacity, are the values current or proposed?: 
Proposed
Public computer center name and type.: 
Willamette Falls Community Media Center
How many broadband-related equipment units (e.g. computers, wireless devices) have you/do you intend to purchase overall?: 
10
Center's Broadband Connection Speed (MBps): 
6
Number of Persons served per 120-hour business week?: 
100
Number of Persons served per 48-hour weekend?: 
20
Center Demographic Information
8. What is the estimated population size of your service area?: 
447830
9. What is your service area identifier?: 
Census Burea
10. What age distribution(s) will your center serve?: 
5 to 19 years
20 to 29 years
29 to 39 years
40 to 49 years
50 to 59 years
60 to 69 years
70 and above
11. What ethnicity(s) will your center serve?: 
Hispanic
Non-Hispanic White
Non-Hispanic Black
Non-Hispanic American Indian
Non-Hispanic Asian
Non-Hispanic Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
Non-Hispanic Other
12. What gender(s) will your center serve?: 
Male
Female
13. What is the median household income for the population your center will serve?: 
Less than $9,000
$10,000 - $14,999
$15,000 - $24,999
$25,000 - $34,999
$35,000 - $44,999
$50,000 - $74,999
$75,000 - $99,999
$100,000 - $149,999
$150,000 - $199,999
$200,000 and above
14. What education levels will your center serve?: 
Elementary - Kindergarten to Grade 5
Middle - Grade 6 to Grade 8
Secondary - Grade 8 to Grade 12
College
Masters
Doctorate/Post-Doctorate
15. What is the unemployment rate for your service area?: 
12
16. What describes the language preference of your service area?: 
English - Primary
17. Please describe your center's outreach strategy and how can you reach communities lacking broadband access. : 
Partnerships are a great way to create a foundation for need based services. Stewards and long standing organizations within smaller communities are the best voice of the community. The unincorporated townships and hamlets in Clackamas County don't have the financial structure to sustain current methods of communication. Transportation into metropolitan areas to utilized technology is preventing most citizens from a continuous flow of dialog. Willamette Falls Television is already partnered with Clackamas County to be the Public Access Center for the unincorporated region. In order to put these programs into place in support of accessible communication WFTV proposes to provide a journalism and technology program that is structured at the facility so citizens have a way to gain skills in providing leadership in their own communities without having to travel great distances to do so.
18. If you provide a computer checkout or giveaway program, how many users do you expect to provide equipment or computers?: 
Anyone that comes into the facility, that resides in the service areas, will be provided reasonable training and accessibility to technology.
19. How will you measure the program's impact in reaching disconnected communities and increase broadband adoption?: 
Utilizing metrics from the journalism website can provide immediate reporting. WFTV also provides annual reporting on equipment and facility usage. In terms of Public Access centers, qualitative metrics are a preferred method of reporting.
20. Please describe your primary training and educational programs, including curricula, student certification programs, etc.: 
Since 1986 WFTV has provided basic producer training in field production, post production and studio production. Producers are guided by a hands on approach with actual equipment. The instructor will assess comprehension and provide notations in the producer database with comments and instructions for followup. Currently WFTV is developing a program of production relevant classes. Community Schools is the division that has provided classes and workshops for all interests in Oregon City. Currently they are partnering with WFTV to provide a dual layer class. Dual layer classes are special interest classes embedded within WFTV production classes. WFTV will be providing special interest electives quarterly starting this summer, 2010. WFTV is also developing a program that will integrate IT Server training and Open Source Web Development to support content delivery of media and supplement channel operations.
20a. How many hours of training do you/expect to provide per person on average through training programs(s)?: 
20
20b. How many full-time instructors/facilitators do you/will you employ for broadband and digital literacy training purposes?: 
Instructor funding will be project based. They will be required to have working/educational experience and/or certification dependant on assignment.
Other Information
21. Is there evidence that less than 40% of your service population has broadband web access?: 
No
22. How will your center provide a $10,000 match of funds?: 
WFTV operations is funded from franchise fees. Additionally, WFTV receives PEG funding from three cities and Clackamas County when funds are available. Potential funding from Facility and Staff services is currently in review.
23. Does your center currently have an online component or plans for an online component?: 
Yes
24. How do you plan to maintain a public computer center?: 
Staff will be reorganized for dedicated maintenance of an IT Department. Partnerships and programs will assist in maintaining a public computer center at the onset. Membership fees will be implemented to hire part-time staff as core.
25. How do you plan maintain a website for your station or for the public computer center?: 
A journalism committee will meet regularly to discuss content. The IT committee will meet to discuss infrastructure. Finally a Web Development committee will discuss design and implementation.
26. Are you interested in enabling your community to directly schedule any portion of your programming schedule?: 
Yes
27. Are you interested in sharing content with other public access TV stations?: 
Yes
28. How many total new home subscribers (households) to broadband do you expect to generate over the entirety of the program?: 
Unknown
29. How many total new business and/or institutional subscribers to broadband do you expect to generate?: 
Unknown