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Seal Beach volunteers urge council to support SBTV upgrades, propose Community Media Access Collaborative
Summary
Members of the Seal Beach Cable Communications Foundation and community producers asked the council to fund a station manager, upgrade decades-old equipment (estimate ~$410,000), pursue a Community Media Access Collaborative model and seek clarity on annual PEG/franchise funding.
Several volunteers and board members associated with Seal Beach Television (SBTV) urged the council during public comment to support funding, staffing and organizational changes for the city’s public access channel. Joe Osuna, who identified himself as a member of the Seal Beach Cable Communications Foundation board, said SBTV “is a community channel” and described gaps in staffing and accounting for the channel’s revenues.
Peter Anninos, chairman of the Seal Beach Cable Communications Foundation, and other volunteers presented a proposal to modernize equipment and operations. Anninos said SBTV has relied heavily on volunteers since the station manager resigned in December 2022 and later passed away. He told the council that the station’s technology is aging — “our computer that we have upstairs that's running the graphics for this, it's running on Windows 98”…
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