One would think Arvig would've bothered to mention this by now, but since to my knowledge they haven't:
DTV20 School and Community TV will no longer exist as we know it. It will operate similarly to Arvig's old channel 14 which has operated in the communities north of the old Diversicom stomping grounds (and DTV20 will in fact move to channel 14, and have it's name changed as well...also it's coverage will be expanded to include the likes of Osakis and maybe Wadena (don't remember) but the overall shift in station policy is that it will no longer spend money to produce content that is not previously contracted...In other words, we will still film city council meetings in towns where we have been filming them, and I think Adam Saltmarsh will still be doing Movie Reviews on Main with Main Street Theatre owner Bob Douvier, but beyond that, anything else which is not already on our filming schedule will no longer be filmed by DTV20. Note that the 2012 Sauk Centre and Melrose proms are on our schedule, as is one other community event that eludes my memory at the moment. But, no more high school activities or athletics (or graduations or proms or coronations) for Melrose or Sauk Centre. No more community events or concerts. No more original shows. Assumably no more filming of the Sinclair Lewis Days Parade Live or Santa Live. As far as Arvig and DTV20 are concerned.
However.
Though details are currently murky at best, as I understand it Arvig's policy has historically been that camera equipment can be borrowed (or rented?) from the community tv station for use in filming community events. I'm not certain that this was true for just anyone, although the impression I get is that that is the case. That said, I will now independently offer my services as a videographer for school and community events in the nearby communities, contingent upon an agreement involving free use of the station's cameras, though I cannot afford to work for free, and so my tentative rates are currently as follows:
I need $50 down (cash or check) to film any school or community event. However, I will also provide 5 DVD copies of the production to the party(s) who funded the production. Any additional desired copies will be available at the cost of $5 each. The event must be within 50 miles of Sauk Centre, MN for this rate to apply. For an additional 50 miles, another $5 will be added to the initial production charge (making it $55). Any distance beyond this is outside my operating range; talk to me if you really want it to happen and we'll figure something out. Note that I am not including performances, plays, larger productions, and the like at this rate, as they take considerably more time to edit and therefore require a higher price tag. Also I do not intend to film any performances involving copyright issues unless I know for sure that they can easily be resolved. So, no Music on the River, for example, sorry.
Anything I film can still be submitted to and played on whatever DTV20 becomes, though it doesn't have to be - it's up to the people who request it to be filmed (keep in mind, the new general Arvig policy is simply to not spend any money on content)
Also, once some of the fog of general confusion clears, I'll have a better idea of what the fate of DTV20's former sports sponsors is, and whether I'll be able to have them sponsor my efforts instead, or if I'd have to get new sponsors--doing so would for sure let me reduce and maybe allow me to eliminate the production charge listed above.
Additionally, this change may open up the possibility of streaming live video of some school events, though I'd have to work those details out with the school districts.
My phone number: 3.2.0 2.6.0 5.8.2.0
Sunday, April 15, 2012
As seen on facebook...
"The problem with stories on the internet involving Albert Einstein is that, like quotations, it's hard to determine their validity" -Albert Einstein
This is my response to one of those "Christian victory over the secularists" tales that came across my radar on facebook recently. It was about a student challenging a professor's claims that a good God couldn't have created a world with evil in it, and that God's existence cannot be proven by science...at the end of the story it claimed that student was Einstein, and aside from that assertion, I had a few other raised eyebrows as well, and so here's what I wrote in response:
Additionally, the professor was a very nice straw man in this story; a real secular professor would have an answer for the student's challenge about evolution (he would've surely claimed that evolution can be and is witnessed today, I mean, I'm no secular college science professor, yet I can easily point out that the current trend of bacterial mutation which is making antibiotics ineffective is an evolutionary process) and the existence of his brain (I mean, come on, how hard would've it been for him to say, "no, you can't see it now, but we can prove that it exists, quite easily."?) So in summary, it might give us Christians an oh-so-tantilizing (yet very sinful) sense of "yay us; secularists suck" to read this sort of thing, but really, if you want to pick a fight with a secular professor or witness someone else doing it, please actually go to a secular institution of higher learning to do so, and find a professor who's ready to argue. This is a cheap shot. That said, A) are we as Christians really called to pick fights in this manner? and B) I will say that secular scientists are far too quick to assume (and note that assumption is not a valid way to prove a scientific theory) that there is no physical evidence of the existence of God...this assumption requires denying the validity of many well-known historical accounts, after all, in addition to many more contemporary testimonies...and additionally, the scientific method is flawed at its core for only allowing input from 5 senses to be considered valid (as there are many reasons to believe in the presence of more than 5 "senses"...hey, might as well throw a bit of my personal experience in as evidence for that: we got in an accident (going 70 mph) on the freeway and everyone came out unharmed, and though Christians jump up and down and call that a miracle, scientists do not, however, that isn't my evidence. My evidence is that when a person in the car called her mom to tell her that there had been an accident, her mom already knew...bare minimum concrete evidence of a 6th sense for the scientific community, obvious evidence of the supernatural for Christians (yes, by faith).
This is my response to one of those "Christian victory over the secularists" tales that came across my radar on facebook recently. It was about a student challenging a professor's claims that a good God couldn't have created a world with evil in it, and that God's existence cannot be proven by science...at the end of the story it claimed that student was Einstein, and aside from that assertion, I had a few other raised eyebrows as well, and so here's what I wrote in response:
Additionally, the professor was a very nice straw man in this story; a real secular professor would have an answer for the student's challenge about evolution (he would've surely claimed that evolution can be and is witnessed today, I mean, I'm no secular college science professor, yet I can easily point out that the current trend of bacterial mutation which is making antibiotics ineffective is an evolutionary process) and the existence of his brain (I mean, come on, how hard would've it been for him to say, "no, you can't see it now, but we can prove that it exists, quite easily."?) So in summary, it might give us Christians an oh-so-tantilizing (yet very sinful) sense of "yay us; secularists suck" to read this sort of thing, but really, if you want to pick a fight with a secular professor or witness someone else doing it, please actually go to a secular institution of higher learning to do so, and find a professor who's ready to argue. This is a cheap shot. That said, A) are we as Christians really called to pick fights in this manner? and B) I will say that secular scientists are far too quick to assume (and note that assumption is not a valid way to prove a scientific theory) that there is no physical evidence of the existence of God...this assumption requires denying the validity of many well-known historical accounts, after all, in addition to many more contemporary testimonies...and additionally, the scientific method is flawed at its core for only allowing input from 5 senses to be considered valid (as there are many reasons to believe in the presence of more than 5 "senses"...hey, might as well throw a bit of my personal experience in as evidence for that: we got in an accident (going 70 mph) on the freeway and everyone came out unharmed, and though Christians jump up and down and call that a miracle, scientists do not, however, that isn't my evidence. My evidence is that when a person in the car called her mom to tell her that there had been an accident, her mom already knew...bare minimum concrete evidence of a 6th sense for the scientific community, obvious evidence of the supernatural for Christians (yes, by faith).
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