FSTV Growing and Producing Content

Hey everybody,

Tomorrow we have the meeting about the direction we are heading as far as Action Calendar and Your Voice Here is concerned. We haven't had the meeting yet so obviously I don't know exactly what direction it will be, but it sounds like we are getting prepared to start producing more of our own content. And I think that's just dandy. I really enjoy producing the Your Voice Here episodes and would love to get the chance to work on more of that kind of thing. I think it also makes FSTV more competitive with the other major news networks. I remember Don saying at the last meeting, how he wished that Denver was higher up on the list of Cities that view FSTV, and I've been thinking of ways that we could accomplish that. One thing that a lot of people in Denver share in common is a love of the outdoors. Perhaps some kind of environmental program could be produced that would pique the interests of Denverites. Of course, it doesn't matter what programs we produce if Denverites don't even know we exist, so the next idea is some way to make our presence here known. It might be beyond our resources at the moment to host some kind of regional news conference but that was the first thing that came to mind. Another more realistic tactic, and one that was actually suggested to Ginny, Aaron, and I on the mall one day,  would be to have us interns go around to different high schools and talk about what it's like being an intern, working for a national news network, and really reinforcing to the students how important and powerful the media is. High School seniors are the generation that will be going to college soon and starting to form their own opinions about the world, so introducing them to FSTV right now might not be such a bad thing. Anyway,  it's really exciting being at Free Speech right now; I love what our goals are and I hope I can help make them happen.

--Mark