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Bitterroot’s BVTV: low-power television operator describes volunteer start, funding and technical limits
Summary
At the MCAT workshop, Jim Parker described the volunteer origins, funding mix and technical challenges of Bitterroot Valley Television (BVTV), a low-power station that launched in 1988 and relies on underwriters, members and translators to reach its audience.
Jim Parker, a leader with Bitterroot Valley Television (BVTV), described BVTV’s volunteer founding, funding mix and technical limits at a Missoula workshop on community media.
“BVTV went on the air in 1988, in August of 88,” Parker said, recounting the station’s founding and the role of local volunteers who built programming and raised underwriting. Parker said BVTV later received a $165,000 grant to help purchase local production…
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