|
Open Channel is the Stockholm
public access TV channel accessible to 350.000 cable households in
the Capital of Sweden - 24 hours a day with a government granted
must carry status.
Open Channel in Stockholm is a
non-profit organization established 1993 funded by memberships and
transmission fees. Commercials are not allowed in programs.
Programs are produced by 65 member organizations (NGO's) and
broadcast every day.
2006 the Open Channel broadcasted a
total of 3.600 hours of program.
The studio and HQ of Open
Channel is located in central Stockholm in The Citizen House
Medborgarhuset.
Open Channels also operates in fourteen
other citites in Sweden. Open Channel Stockholm is a member of the
National Association for Open Channels (Riksförbundet Öppna
Kanalen - Network Open Channels)
Open Channel is FREE
TELEVISION as programs are not confined to the rules governing the
national public service television or the private commercial
channels. Open Channel is dedicated to the fight for the freedom
of speech offering citizens to produce programmes and run a local
TV station on their own terms. Open Channels in Sweden will be a
dynamic part of the growing multicultural society offering
especially young people a cultural and political arena as well as
finding new means and ways to make television.
Open Channel
is a part of a growing worldwide movement of citizens promoting
democracy through free media access. An European organization for
Community Access Television is launched; Open Channels
Europe
PROGRAM EXCHANGE: Open Channel is on the Information
Highway on a local and global basis exchanging ideas and programs
with committed organizations and people. Government-run or
commercial television will not work in this context. Open Channel
Stockholm also broadcast programs produced by non-commercial
stations in other cities and countries.
ÖPPNA KANALEN STOCKHOLM
Box 4332
102 67
Stockholm, SWEDEN
Telephone: (+46) 08 714 51 00
Telefax: (+
46) 08 642 00 27
stockholm@oppnakanalen.se
|