Get Your Community Involved With GET CONNECTED . . .

There's a great opportunity to promote your local activities on KCET-TV through a new program brought to our attention by Greg Nelson, Director of DONE, the Department of Neighborhood Empowerment.

The press release below describes a wonderful new PBS program called "California Connected" that will be airing shortly.

During this program, and at various times throughout every day of the week, KCET will broadcast one minute community GET CONNECTED announcements, telling local viewers about three separate important area events or meetings that will be occurring the next day.

The producers need to start getting community information starting almost right away, since the show premiers April 25th, and will begin to broadcast GET CONNECTED announcements starting April 29th.

They'll need to continue to do this on a daily basis.

What they're looking for are events, at the neighborhood, city and county level, that involve political activism. So while a notice about a bake sale wouldn't be accepted, a meeting to discuss a controversial land use issue, or information about protests, rallies, and public hearings, are good candidates for GET CONNECTED announcements.

If they promote an event on air, they'll also post it on the KCET website, and provide a link back to your website if you have one.

The best way to let them know about your event is to e-mail the program researcher:

Bess Hubbard - bhubbard@kcet.org

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A project of KCET, KVIE, KPBS and KQED

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GET YOUR COMMUNITY INVOLVED WITH GET CONNECTED
Regional News Briefs alert your region daily to opportunities to get involved

Four California PBS stations in the state - KCET, KQED, KPBS and KVIE - have joined forces to create a weekly news magazine that will serve the entire state of California.

California Connected - which premieres statewide Thursday April 25th - will encourage the citizens of this vast and diverse state to start thinking about themselves as members of the same community - and to GET INVOLVED.

We do that through the stories we tell. We believe that one of the underlying causes of the growing lack of trust in political, business and community leaders and institutions has to do with journalism's traditional focus on what's broken, what doesn't work, and who's "to blame."

California Connected will not report stories in that manner. Instead of investigating the past, the program will report the facts as they are today and its stories and discussions will be about possible solutions and the people working to find them.

We also do that through our GET CONNECTED minute. GET CONNECTED is an independent adjunct to California Connected.

GET CONNECTED, a unique kind of daily news brief, will act as a daily community alert - targeted to the communities in which it airs.

Every day we'll tell people what decisions are being made or discussed in their area tomorrow, and where and how to get involved. We will also on occasion talk about community events and volunteer opportunities.

What's on your calendar? What groups are active in your community? When are your leaders meeting with their public?

WE WANT TO KNOW !!!

We want to be your daily television billboard. Send your events, your happenings to us.

California desperately needs the participation and care of educated and informed citizens. California Connected / GET CONNECTED is specifically designed to encourage individual action.

The problem is civic disengagement. California Connected - and GET CONNECTED - is an answer.

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