New programs on KOCT!

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KOCT’s camera crews and editors have been very busy and  they want to share to share their efforts with you! Oceanside High School Spectrum has just been edited and features interviews with Dr. Ron Pirayoff, the Principle of Oceanside High School. Lou Fosnut, OHS Counselor and Dr. Jim Fosnut, OUSD Consultant were also interviewed. Finally the talented host for the program, Robert Rasul interviews retired CIF Championship Coach John Carroll. Thanks to KOCT volunteer Maya Maryvilla for her awesome editing efforts!

Juneteenth 2015 was another annual community event our camera crews attended. Host Elaine Swann finds out about the origins of this event and meets an amazing saxophone player too.

Filipino Cultural Celebration 2015—This years Filipino Celebration was well attended and remember that it's easy to share these brief programs with friends by sending this link to them. They can watch KOCT programs on their computers, smart phones and tablets or the old fashion way: by tuning to KOCT channel 18. You can check out our easy to use Program Guide by clicking here.

The KOCT crew recently attended the event How Can You Reduce and Recycle. Held at the El Corazon Senior center, the event promoted conservation and sustainability. It included water and energy conservation and everyday things we can do to reduce waste. 

KOCT ‘s camera crew also attended the North County Water Summit at the Vista Civic Center. The topic was “The Reality of Today’s Water Issue-Solutions Through Innovation.

So make sure to tune in to KOCT to catch our Newsbriefs and the Water Summit. The best way to stay tuned to community events, topics and cultural celebrations is to watch KOCT-Your Community Channel. 

KOCT PROMOTES THE ARTS

Early this year KOCT was pleased to receive $3,000 from the City of Oceanside Arts Commission to produce three short programs about Oceanside’s thriving Arts & Culture activities. KOCT is matching the Arts Commissions’ funding and the first program has just been completed by KOCT talented Producer/Editor Peter Bonscher.  Our goal with this grant series is to highlight some of the other non-profits arts programs that were also funded by the Oceanside Arts Commission. 

Crew Member Addison Wolf preparing for the shoot.

The Arts Commission grant has helped kick start a new program by the Boys and Girls Club of Oceanside called, Art of the Masters, which provides kids an opportunity to delve deeper into the contributions of world renowned artists throughout history, helping to solidify the Club’s commitment to educating the youth of today for the needs of tomorrow.

Director Jodi Diamond of the Boys & Girls Club of Oceanside

 The Boys and Girls Clubs of Oceanside have been offering after school and summer programs for North County youth since 1952.  KOCT is pleased to be able to highlight this new arts program.  The great thing about our VOD or Video On Demand service is that it’s easy for you to share programs like this with others AND watch the programs on your computer, tablet or smart phone.

KOCT’s Editor Peter Boncher and Crew Member Addison Wolf interviewing Jodi Diamond

Peter has done a great job kicking off this new grant series and it follows the great news we received last week for another program in our Arts and Culture series:  The “18^th Annual Inter-Tribal Powow” has won a 2015 Hometown Media Award—a national and very competitive video competition.  That program was funded in part by a grant from the Oceanside Charitable Foundation and is another good example of the spotlight that KOCT is shining on our local community. Stay tuned later this summer for more in our ongoing Arts series and remember: KOCT is Your Community Channel!

2015 Hometown Media Award Winner!

We are proud to announce that KOCT is a 2015 Hometown Media Award winner! The Hometown Media Awards recognize the best Community Media Programming of 2014, KOCT’s program “18^th Annual Inter-Tribal Powwow” was the winner in the Access Center Professional category of   Community Events- Parades/Festivals.

“18^th Annual Inter-Tribal Powwow” funded by the Oceanside Charitable Foundation and KOCT.

The Producer of the program was KOCT’s Angela Miranda who also shot some of the footage. The Videographer was   Angela Wong and the Grip was Tamara Ilich. The program was edited by a talented college intern during the summer of 2014.  Editor   Brandee Wyse is a Native American who shared her talents with KOCT, learned new editing skills and is continuing her education at California State Long Beach.  

KOCT’s Station Manager Jacob Rush will receive the  award  at the 2015 Hometown Media Awards Celebration on August 13th in Pasadena. This celebration is being held in conjunction with the 2015 ACM Annual Conference.

KOCT is a community television station that gives young people real world experience—but as you can see from the following shot bios of this  award winning team—they have a wealth of experience and education that they share with KOCT too :

Production Supervisor, Angela Miranda

KOCT's Production Supervisor, Angela Miranda, graduated from Cal State, University of Los Angeles with a B.A. in Telecommunication and Films.  Angela has been and still is a mentor of film to High School students. She worked previously as an Assistant to the Director of Reel Rasquache Film Festival (Latino Film Festival) in 2009. Angela is a good example of a KOCT employee with multiple video production skills: including camera, editing, audio, graphics design and producing (Oceanside Spectrum).

Production Team Supervisor, Angela Wong

The Production Team Supervisor, Angela Wong, graduated from Ithaca College in 20125 and studied Cinema Production.  She moved to Oceanside and joined KOCT in July 2013. In her spare time, she enjoys surfing. She hopes to start her own film production company in the future. 

Production team member, Tamara Ilich

Tamara Ilich, a KOCT Production team member, attends MiraCosta College and has had a year internship at the station.  She loves to dance hip hop/break-dance and make short films in her free time.  She has participated in several studio and on location productions.  She hopes to transfer to Cal State Fullerton for Video Production. Tamara is proud to be a part of the KOCT Production Team.

Editor, Brandee Wyse

Editor, Brandee Wyse sent KOCT this bio update: I began at KOCT as an intern during the summer of 2014. Eager to take the opportunity, she spent her very first day entrusted with editing footage for the Mission San Luis Rey Inter-Tribal Powwow. By summer's end, the project was complete, and today, she is incredibly grateful to her community station for giving her such an opportunity. 

Outside of KOCT, Brandee has competed in national film competitions and won awards from San Diego's IVIE Film Festival, the Girl’s World Expo, and the Gulf Island Film and Television School in British Columbia, Canada. She has studied Telecommunications in Film and Television at California State University Los Angeles, recently working in associate producing and stage management positions for plays while directing, shooting, and editing short films with her peers, and will now transfer to Cal State Long Beach to complete her degree in their selective program, Narrative Production. Congrats on the win, and thank you again for such a great summer last year! Cheers! ~Brandee~

21^st Annual Oceanside Independence Parade 

The 21st Annual Oceanside Independence Parade was colorful and festive with funky floats, beauty queens, military bands, extravagant cars and fire trucks. Thanks to Main Street Oceanside, its hosts, volunteers and Tri-City Medical Center, for participating in this year’s 21^st annual parade.

KOCT has covered the Oceanside parades for the last 30 years and our talented crew was set up by the Oceanside Civic Center to capture the colorful tradition.

Staff included Miguel Blanco, Tamara Ilich, Toby Maysey, Damian Mickey, Tyler Jardine, Bill Peters, Jake Rush, Phoenix VonHendy, Micheyl Steinway, Addison Wolf, and Angela Miranda.

The hosts of parade were Oceanside’s Jim Schroder and Kristi Hawthorne.

The show will air on KOCT’s Community Channel 18 and can be seen in Oceanside on Cox Cable and county-wide on AT&T’s U-Verse (channel 99).   Also, if you have family or friends who don’t live in Oceanside they can still watch  your little baton-twirler perform in the  parade by going to KOCT.ORG and clicking on the “Video on Demand” banner at the top of the home page.

KOCT provides extensive replays on KOCT’s channel 18 and 19 as well as Video on Demand (Specials: Parade) via KOCT.ORG by the following Monday (June 29^th).

KOCT Replay Schedule for the 21^st Annual Oceanside Independence Parade:

·         Multiple replays the week of June 29- July 3^rd

      Sat. July 4^th

o   6 am & 4 pm             - Channel 18

o   12 pm & 9:00 pm      - Channel 19

See KOCT Program Schedule for additional July 2015 air times or watch on your smart phone, tablet or computer by going to KOCT’s Video on Demand and click on SPECIALS: Parade.

(click Community Connection to view our news letter)

The KOCT family would like to give a big THANK YOU to all those that attended the 2015 Open House Event. It was a great opportunity for the KOCT Board and staff to meet our viewers. We appreciate the assistance from Board members Debbie Allen, Michelle Bray-Davis, Frank Gould, Gerald Hampton, Margret Merlock, and Board Chairman Liz Rhea.  We also want to thank our host of Oceanside Spectrum, Elaine Swann and a big "GET WELL SOON" to her husband Chris.

Here are some scenes from our Great Event!

Deputy Mayor Chuck Lowery and Gwen Sanders

KOCT's Aaron Capehart and Gwen Sanders

KOCT's Crew Wolf, Angela Miranda, and Micheyl Steinway

Live taping of the Oceanside Spectrum

Visitors enjoyed the behind the scene perspective 

(L-R) KOCT's Board Member Michelle Bray-Davis, Felicity Gould, KOCT's Board Members Frank Gould and Debbie Allen

KOCT's I.T. Specialist Phoenix Von Handy explaining Cablecast to visitors 

(L-R) Casa De Amparos Director Tamara Fleck-Myers with Host Elaine Swann

KOCT's Executive Director Tom Reeser and KOCT Board Member Janet Bledsoe-Lacey

Green Screen Magic

KOCT's Station Manger Jacob Rush with Deputy Mayor Chuck Lowery

THANKS again for ALL the participation with the Open House!

Preparing for Monday’s KOCT's Open House(click to open the link)

On Monday KOCT will host its annual Open House at our 3038 Industry Street Studio. (Near Garrison and Oceanside Blvd).

Besides meeting KOCT’s staff and volunteer Board of Directors visitors will get to see how Oceanside Spectrum is produced.  Elaine Swann is the host of this long-running, monthly, Community Television Program. You’ll be able to meet her and find out how your non-profit organizations can appear on Spectrum to help publicize your fund-raisers, events or needs.

One of the fun ‘exhibits’ you’ll see is our Green Screen technology.  They use to call it Chroma-Key and its how your local TV weatherman is able to stand up in front of a giant map and tell you that San Diego will again be 70 degrees. (Except for May-Gray & June-Gloom).

Aaron Capehart (left) Jon Beltz (right).

You’ll get to sit in a custom little car designed by KOCT’s Chief Engineer, William Peters, and take a virtual road trip all around Oceanside.  Earlier this week, KOCT’s Production team of Angela Miranda, Aaron Capehart and Damian Mickey drove around Oceanside with our High-Definition (HD) cameras to gather the footage needed for your Trip.

Green Screen Set up.

Yesterday’s crew consisted of Angela Miranda, Aaron Capehart, Tamara Ilich and Jaylen Abrego. They set up an elaborate green screen background to shoot footage that will really make your experience a (as they said in the 60’s) Trippy.

As you can see from the photos it was truly a flying 3D-Circus.  The next step in our preparation for Monday is to take the road trip footage and combine it with yesterdays Green Screen footage so you can experience a drive around Oceanside like no other….

Take a ride with KOCT on Monday, June 15^th from 2 pm to 5 pm for our annual Open House (click to open the link).

 For more information or to RSVP call 760-722-4433.

Random Pixels

Congratulations to this year’s winner of the 25^th Annual Bob Bowditch Scholarship Award, Jade Yusi!  Jade is a graduate of El Camino High School. The KOCT staff met Jade during her Directors Training for this years El Camino high school Spectrum production. (KOCT also produced a Spectrum program with Oceanside High School Students) 

Former Spectrum host Brian Graham, with the first scholarship recipient Jeff Robinson in 1990, 
and Ida Bowditch

The Bob Bowditch Scholarship was created in 1989 to honor the founder of KOCT. His widow, Ida Bowditch wanted to create this endowment to remember Bob and to help young people going to college and majoring in Communications and Media. 

Director Jade Yusi at the controls

Jade is a good example of the young people Ida wanted to assist—Jade wrote in her scholarship application; 

“I dream of making movies. To do so for a living would give me an opportunity to change people’s lives. My passion for storytelling cannot be silenced and I know I want to do this for the rest of my life. This fall, I will be going to the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in film-making”.

Congratulations Jade and best of luck in your pursuit of your dreams!

We recorded an interesting new Journalist Roundtable on June 4^th and it will be replayed throughout the month of June AND  you can watch anytime as Video on Demand too. 

KOCT Production Crew preparing for the show.

Our first guest was Chris Jennewein the Publisher and Editor of the Times of San Diego. Chris created the nation's first online and Internet newspaper at the San Jose Mercury News in 1992-94. And we discussed his journey and that of online newspapers. 

Our second guest was Ken Weinberg, Director of Water Resources of the San Diego Water Authority, and our subject was the Drought and everything to do with water or the lack of it in North County.

Our final guest was Eric Larson with the Farm Bureau of San Diego County. We asked him how our north county farmers are doing in this drought and about a new industry: Agritourism.

And remember... you can watch this program on your tablet or smart phone too!

Finally don’t forget to RSVP if you can attend the KOCT OpenHouse on Monday June 15^th from 2 pm- 5 pm. 

You can watch Oceanside Spectrum being filmed, take a tour and meet the KOCT staff and Board. Find out how local television is produced by coming to KOCT-Your Community Channel!