ATLANTA -- People TV won! People TV producers, Patricia Crayton and Adrian Coleman-Tyler, are winners of the 2015 Hometown Media Awards in the About Access & Empowerment category. The category honors media created to inform the viewer about an access center, access channel, or the concept of public, educational, or government access; programs that exemplify how community access television empowers people to speak about issues that affect them.
Hometown Media Awards are sponsored by the Alliance for Community Media (ACM) and honors and promotes community media, and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels. Awards are presented to creative programs that address community needs, develop diverse community involvement, challenge conventional commercial television formats and move viewers to experience television in a different way. To view all Hometown Media Award winners visit ACM 2015 Hometown Media Award Winners (http://www.allcommunitymedia.org/events/5140)
People TV, Inc. and its producers are creating award worthy programming but most importantly, local programming beneficial to Atlanta communities. “This is what Public Access is all about,” says Teddy Lewis, People TV Managing Director. “Look for more People TV winners in 2016!”
The winning video “People TV: The Story Behind the Story” “The Patricia Crayton Show” features Mrs. Adkins, a senior residing in Atlanta’s Fourth Ward and longtime People TV viewer.
Click PTV The Story Behind the Story (https://youtu.be/D-FaBlvz3Wg) to view the video.
About People TV
People TV, Inc. (A Georgia 501(c)3 Non-Profit) is the City of Atlanta’s public access media technology center giving residents, nonprofits and community organizations an open forum to communicate opinions, programs, ideas, services and talents to 100,000+ households. This access center provides adult and youth citizens with equal opportunity to participate in affordable television/video production workshops, access to production facilities and equipment to produce local programming for Comcast cable channel 24.
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For more information about People TV Atlanta, please visit http://www.peopletv.org or watch Comcast Channel 24. Follow People TV on www.facebook.com/PeopleTVAtlantaand Twitter and Instagram@PeopleTV_Atl (http://www.twitter.com/PeopleTV_Atl)
Media Contact Info:
Teddy Lewis / Sandi Pruitt
PH: 404-873-6712, ext. 201
Email:tlewis@peopletv.org / sandi@peopletv.org
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