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1973 Public Access TV Workshop Loch Haven Art Center Invite

by: © 2022 Walker Webb Watson 1951

Publication date: 1973-02-23

Topics: public access televison, cabletv, Orange Cablevision, Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL, Alternate Media Center, New York University, Bobby Mariano, Walker Watson, Public Access Workshop, community tv, Sony Portapack, television

Collection: television_inbox; television

This is an invitation for a public access workshop at the Loch Haven Art Center for Orange Cablevison in Orlando, FL. I was part of the original group along with Bobby Mariano, Elliot Mitchell (Channel 9) and other volunteers who formed the Public Access Workshop.

The management of Orange Cablevision in Orlando, FL and the Alternate Media Center of New York University, School of the Arts, have worked together to give us, the Community of Orlando, access to television via the cable television network.

I hope you will join me Friday night, February 23, 1973, at 7:00 PM here at the Loch Haven Art Center for your orientation class in Public Access Television.

These were a series of workshops to train PAW TV volunteers and familiarize them with the Sony 1/2 B&W Portable Video Tape recording deck, https://www.retrothing.com/2005/11/the_sony_cv2000.html,

including leather case camera & power supply. It was the first portable that could record AND play back video. Included is the AV-3420CE reel to reel video, recorder, the AC–3420CE power supply and the AVC–3240CE EIAJ B/W camera.

The AV-3400 was the most mass produced successful “Portapack” system ever sold.