Community Connection for Thursday, June 26, 2014

Channel Surfing Snippets

KOCT has been documenting Oceanside parades since the early 1980’s—in fact we used to cover both the Christmas Parade and the Independence Parade before budget cuts silenced the December high school bands. Thanks to Main Street Oceanside we still have the Independence Day parade and thanks to Mossy Nissan, this year’s television sponsor, KOCT’s camera will be there to catch all the festivities. The parade starts at 10 am but it usually doesn’t arrive at our KOCT Civic Center location till about 10:30 am. Our hosts this year will be the hysterical Tom Brault along with historical Kristi Hawthorne (she’s President of the Oceanside Historical Society and Tom is a talented, singer, actor and long-time Rotarian too).

What’s that? You have to stay home and wait for the cable guy? Don’t worry! The Parade airs LIVE on KOCT’s channel 18 AND you can watch it on your smart phone, tablet, computer, iPad or google glass by going to KOCT.ORG and clicking ‘streaming 18’ on our home page.

And if that doesn’t work for you because you’re IN THE PARADE (like Grand Marshall and KOCT friend David Nydegger) here are Replay times for the Independence Day Parade for June 29 – July 6 are:

Channel 18

Sat 6/28 - 10am [*live*], 6pm

Sun 6/29 - 8am, 8pm

Mon 6/30 – 6pm

Thursday 7/3 – 2pm

Fri 7/4 - 6am, 2pm, 6pm

Sat 7/5 – 6am, 2pm, 9pm

Sun 7/6 – 10am, 9pm

Channel 19

Sun 6/29 - 11am   

Mon 6/30 – 2pm

Tue 7/1 – 4pm

Wed 7/6 – 5pm

Thursday 7/3 – 7pm

Fri 7/4 - 4pm

Sat 7/5 – 11am, 7pm,

Sun 7/6 – 2pm

Award

Congratulations to KOCT Editor Shawn Lennon, Videographer Angela Wong and Production Assistant Tamara Illich For their STAR Award at this years SCAN NATOA Conference in Santa Monica. This annual video competition for California and Nevada government access television channels is very competitive. The second place award in the Community Event category was for KOCT’s coverage of the annual Dia De Los Muertos event at the Mission San Luis Rey. Angela and Tamara were the field crew that videotaped the event and then team member Shawn Lennon edited the final award winning video. I also want to give a shout out to our friends at the County Television Network (CTN) who won a wagonload of awards for their quality programs! They now go by the name County News Center and you can watch their program by clicking here.

Next weeks Journalist Roundtable-

Next weeks Journalist Roundtable on Thursday night, July 3^rd at 6 pm has a diverse array of guests and subjects you won’t want to miss. 76^th District Assemblyman Rocky Chavez will fill us in on all the events occurring with our state government in Sacramento.  Next up will be the President of Cal State San Marcos, Dr. Karen Haynes who will talk about the student population boom and what that means for future campus growth. She’ll also talk about the fire that forced the evacuation of the campus and the delay in graduation ceremonies. Dr. Bart Billings will talk about his annual conference that was held last month in Carlsbad about Combat Stress and the link between psychiatric drugs given our soldiers and the link to increased suicides among soldiers.  And it must be the start of election season: Chuck Lowery, a former Oceanside City Council member has just announced his run for one of the two seats currently occupied by incumbents Jerry Kern and Gary Felien—Find out why he’s decided to throw his hat in the ring and what issues he’ll campaign on. The show airs LIVE between 6 pm and 7 pm on Cox Cable channel 18 or AT&T’s U-Verse (ch 99). And don’t forget you can go to KOCT.ORG and click Streaming 18 and watch on your smart phone, tablet or computer. AND Journalist Roundtable Now a podcast too.

Thanks to the creative spark of KOCT’s Angela Wong our Journalist Roundtable programs are now Podcasts too! We’re using PODOMATIC to host our media. Simple go to PODOMATIC to listen to the JRT episode!

Very cool feature: Click on the bottom right button that says "Subscribe on iTunes" and your iTunes will automatically open and you can download/listen to the episode there!  We’ll do our best to post the latest show within about 5 days of its television premier! Thanks Angela!!

KOCT’s partnerships with schools, the faith community and The Coast News:

At KOCT’s recent Open House we met parents and teenagers interested in KOCT and our Internship program.  Many of our local schools, such as Rancho Buena Vista, have excellent student internship programs and KOCT has trained many of their students and utilized their skills to produce community programming.

KOCT continues to produce a wide variety of programs—documentaries and topical talk shows such as North County Talks: Faith & the Common Good. The program is hosted by the Pastor of North Coast United Methodist Church, Pastor TS Harris. They have tackled many challenging and topical subjects such as the Minimum Wage, Human Slavery and Affordable Housing. Check out their most recent show.

I would also like to announce a new KOCT partnership with another local media resource, The Coast News.  Now, in every addition of this weekly newspaper  you can find a weekly listing of KOCT latest programs and the date and time they will be airing. Thank you to Chris Kidd, the Advertising Manager and Associate Publisher for the Coast News Group for his support of KOCT.  The Coast News is also expanding and starting this month they will be publishing an inland addition of their popular newspaper. KOCT wishes them well in their new endeavor. We also appreciate that The Coast News Managing Editor, Tony Cabala, has been offering his expertise as one of the journalists on our popular Journalist Roundtable program.

KOCT Celebrates 30 Years

This Week's "Live" JRT Plus Upcoming "Open House"

Watch tonights’ Journalist Roundtable on KOCT’s Community Channel 18 “LIVE” at 6pm—Guests include Francine Busby the Chair of the San Diego County Democratic Party,  Gary Felien of The Republican Party of San Diego County, Chris Van Gorde, President & CEO- Scripps Health and  Councilmember Jerry Kern, of the San Onofre Community Engagement Panel .  Watch on Cox Cable in Oceanside, AT&T U-Verse Ch 99-county wide or watch on your Smart Phone, Tablet or Computer by clicking here.

KOCT Open House-Celebrating 30 years! One week from now KOCT will host its annual Open House & Forum. This free event will be on Thursday, June 12 from 4 pm to 6:30 pm.

Attendees can take a studio tour and see how television programs are recorded, edited and televised. You can experience green screen magic and drivers of any age can take a drive around Oceanside without leaving the KOCT studio. Find out how your non-profit can appear on Oceanside Spectrum and KOCT Board members will be on hand to answer any questions. We will also have a KOCT swag raffle and tell you how you can become a Friend of KOCT to support your community channel in producing more programs for, by and about the community we live our lives in.  RSVP by calling 760-722-4433 or koct@koct.org.

THIS WEEKS COMMUNITY CONNECTION NEWS

The Bob Bowditch Scholarship fund was established by Ida Bowditch upon the passing of KOCT’s founder, Bob Bowditch in 1989. Every year annually KOCT awards a small scholarship to Oceanside or El Camino High School graduates whose intent is to have a college major in communications or media studies. Our 2014 Scholarship Recipient is Joshua Montiel from El Camino High School. In his application he wrote “A good film takes you into the story and lets you become a character; you begin to feel the emotions as if you are part of the film itself. It distracts you from everyday stress and worries. For the length of the film nothing else exists but the story you are taking part in”. Watch for Joshua’s appearance on a future Oceanside Spectrum when he will be interviewed by Spectrum Host: Elaine Swann!

Congratulations Joshua!

KOCT’s founder, Bob Bowditch

Speaking of Elaine Swann her latest book “LET CRAZY BE CRAZY” (you can order her book on her website) has just been published and it contains practical examples, tips and advice on the perils of what she calls “Crazy Folk.” Whether in our professional environments or family and personal relationships, they exist. Swann gives sensible guidance on:

How to identify Crazy Folk, How to get rid of toxic Crazy Folk and How to deal with the Crazy Folk in situations where we have no choice, such as work, in volunteer organizations and with family members. Elaine is currently on a coast to coast tour including appearances on television stations all across the county. As you can tell we are Crazy about Elaine who, by the way, will be our host at our June 12^th Open House and Forum.

Host, Elaine Swann

•  Next week, Tuesday June 3rd is Primary Election Day. What will the results mean? Will incumbents lose and be forced to fight for their office in the November election or did they slide to victory over their aspiring challengers? For insightful analysis you’ll want to tune to next Thursday Nights (June 5^th- 6 pm / Channel 18) Journalist Roundtable where our first two guests will help in our Election Dissection. Our first guest will be Francine Busby-the Chair of the San Diego County Democratic Party and our second guest will be  the Treasurer of The Republican Party of San Diego County. Both will discuss the outcome of the June primary at both the local and regional level.

Our other two guests will discuss two important subjects in the news: Health Care and the decommissioning of San Onofre Power Plant.

Chris Van Gorder is the President & CEO of Scripps Health—his path to CEO is an unusual journey and Scripps has many health facilities in North County. He’ll discuss changes in health care since the passage of the Affordable Care Act and Scripps plans for health care in North County.

Our last guest will be Councilmember Jerry Kern who is a member of the newly formed Community Engagement Panel which is looking into issues related to the decommissioning of the San Onofre Power Plant.

Our Journalist for next week JRT will be Host Kent Davy, KPBS’s Alison St. John and the Managing Editor for The Coast News, Tony Cagala. Don’t miss JRT- “It’s Good TV”!

• Finally don’t forget to mark your calendar for Thursday, June 12^th from 4pm to 6:30 pm. KOCT is inviting everyone interested in touring your community channel to our annual Open House and Forum! (more in next week’s Community Connection)

          Save the Date-June 12^th Open House

JUNE PRIMARY PROGRAMS

Journalist Roundtable program featuring Bill Horn VS Jim Wood now available as VOD Plus more June Primary Programs

On Thursday night, May 1^st, the two experienced candidates for the San Diego County 5^th District Supervisor seat faced off in a tense and sometimes testy one-hour program.

Logan Jenkins wrote about the two diverse candidates in his column

As did Kent Davy

You can see for yourself what all the talk is about because the show has now been posted on KOCT.ORG as Video On Demand.  The two candidates appeared together in a forum put on by the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee and hosted by MiraCosta College. That program has just been posted and you can watch it by clicking here. (Thank you to the Oceanside Chamber of Commerce and MiraCosta College for providing this program.)

All candidates have been invited to participate in all of KOCT’s election programs but not all have decided to participate.  As an example our District Attorney focused Journalist Roundtable program featured Bob Brewer and Terri Wyatt but, unfortunately, incumbent Bonnie Dumanis did not participate.

We have also added to our June Primary Video On Demand series our popular Candidates Statement program featuring Mayor Jim Wood and incumbent Supervisor Bill Horn for the 5^th District Supervisor race and candidate Bob Brewer for the District Attorney seat.

If you prefer to watch TV the old fashion way remember ALL of these June 3^rd primary election programs will be shown extensively on KOCT throughout the month of May.  Check out our Program Schedule it has a cool search function that makes it easy to type in the name of the program and it will provide you a custom listing of that shows airing dates and times.

Stay informed about the upcoming Election by staying tuned to KOCT-Your Community Channel.

Community Connection

One of the services KOCT has provided for Carlsbad, Oceanside and Vista residents since 1997 is coverage of the Tri-City Medical Center’s Board of Directors meetings.  Tri-City is one of a handful of community hospitals in San Diego County and local homeowners fund and care about this important medical center.  In fact the reason we began covering these meetings is that in the mid-90’s there was talk about privatizing the hospital. Community members and the Board of Directors themselves felt the community needed to be informed if such a decision was going to be made and coverage of their meetings was the first step in keeping the public informed about the workings of their hospital.  

Pictured in today’s blog are some of the talented young people who provide this television service. KOCT rolls its sophisticated Mobile Studio to the hospital and set ups a four-camera shoot on the 4^th Thursday of every month and documents the meetings in a style we call ‘live on tape’.  It requires 7 crew members to cover these meetings and every meeting is shown 4 times on KOCT as well as shown on the government channels in the City of Vista and Carlsbad. KOCT also makes each meeting available as Video On Demand (VOD) too.

The Affordable Care Act has brought to the publics attention the cost and importance of health care and KOCT is proud that we’ve been bringing the public’s attention to our local health care facility for seventeen years.  A shout out and thanks to the KOCT talented crew who carry the tripods, cameras and cables down a flight of stairs once a month to keep our community informed!