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I received this tonight for my work at Community Television Network<\/a><\/strong>, the Portland public access station<\/strong>. It was really unexpected. Thanks, folks<\/strong>, it means a lot to me.<\/p>\n I helped start PTV<\/a><\/strong> in Provincetown<\/strong> and volunteered there for a couple of years, training producers, editing and operating cameras. It was lots of fun. I was really happy to find out that I could contribute in Portland. Public access<\/strong> is a great resource and I wish people took better advantage of it.<\/p>\n It's always seemed strange to me that Comcast<\/strong> was able to take over the entire City of Philadelphia<\/strong> without providing access until their most recent contract.<\/p>\n If you're not watching public access, you should be. It's fun!<\/strong> It's certainly not like public access in NYC in the 70s<\/strong> but what is, really? The days (and nights) of the bizarre Telepsychic<\/strong>, Ron Jeremy<\/a>'s<\/strong> nude talk show Interludes After Midnight<\/strong>, Ugly George<\/strong> (who tried to get women on the street to take off their tops) and The Robin Byrd<\/a> Show<\/strong> are long gone. Sigh<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I received this tonight for my work at Community Television Network, the Portland public access station. It was really unexpected. Thanks, folks, it means a lot to me. I helped start PTV in Provincetown and volunteered there for a couple of years, training producers, editing and operating cameras. It was lots of fun. I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,23],"tags":[99,97,485,98,101,100],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portland","category-tv","tag-community-television-network","tag-ctn","tag-portland","tag-public-access","tag-robin-byrd","tag-ron-jeremy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2ccTA-award","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.highstrungloner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}