Public Access Corporation of the District Columbia (DCTV)

Community Engagement & Programming: The cable providers who fund DCTV have granted it exclusive use and programming control of eight public access channels on which DCTV schedules and transmits community programming, most of which is produced and provided by DCTV members. Use of the channels is collectively valued at $157,400,640 based on a per subscriber valuation for Public, Educational and Government (PEG) channel usage. DCTV fulfills its mission to transmit community programming on the cable systems in the District of Columbia by scheduling and telecasting programming at no charge to DCTV members, and by creating, producing and telecasting DCTVs original locally focused programs. DCTV also provides and subsidizes supporting resources, training, and facilities to create community programming by its members. Despite COVID-19 restrictions, dedicated DCTV volunteers contributed thousands of hours creating, supporting and providing the programming telecast on DCTVs eight cable television channels on the Comcast, RCN and Verizon FiOS systems. The dollar value of the volunteers efforts and community service is not included in these financial statements.

Education: Participants received a total of 3,873 hours of education, including the Creative Economy Career Access Program students received 1920 hours of education, non-profit organizations received 1,197 hours of education, and interns received 660 hours of education.

Production: During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022, DCTVs charitable work supported 34 nonprofit organizationsby producing video content in stories involving their organizations that were telecast and then licensed to them for use on their website and in their social media. A total of 11,587 hours of facilities and equipment were used to create community focused original programming.