Mad City Chickens Premiere

WYOU Program Coordinator & Education Director Robert Lughai, along with his filmmaking partner, Tashai Lovington, premiered their feature-length documentary Mad City Chickens last night before a sold out audience at Monona Terrace in Madison.

Read the reviews from the Isthmus Daily Page & the Capital Times.

Madison Progressive Voices

Madison Progressive Voices is a show that focuses on those all-important things that are often lost in the media addiction to national and state politics: local politics and local issues. You can catch this new program Tuesdays at 3:30 am, 8:00 am and 1:30 pm.

The producer, Rick Richards, has since retirement in 2005 become very involved in local politics and issues and currently is the chair of the Progressive Dane Economic Issues Task Force and vice-chair of the board of Dane Buy Local

Rick also has a long career in information technology including employment at IBM, at the State of Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development and as an instructor at Madison Area Technical College. He spent several years foolishly trying to earn a living as an actor in the early 1970's.

January's Madison Progressive Voices program was a documentary about the local Progressive Dane political party. February's consisted of three parts: person-on-the-street interviews, a discussion of future goals by members of the Progressive Dane party, and a discussion of the barriers to third parties achieving ballot status by University of Wisconsin professor Joel Rogers. The March, April and May programs deal with making local government more accessible to the public by showing recent Progressive Dane teaching forums about how the City Council works (March), how the County Board works (April), and how the city and county budget processes unfold (May). Future shows will deal with how citizens best can interact with the Madison School board and issues such as the following, taken from the city and county platforms of Progressive Dane:

Open and Democratic Government; Efficient, Effective Government; Public Health; Sustainable Economic Development; Responsible Land Use; Safe, Efficient, and Accessible Transportation; Affordable Housing and Tenant Rights; Protected Civil Rights and Liberties; Tax Justice and Local Sovereignty

A soon to be added regular feature called "myth busters" will expose mythical statements about local politicians and political parties. This feature is inspired by and partially based on Madison Alderperson Brenda Konkel's blog "This Side of Town".

Bean Sprouts: New Kids Cooking Show in April

Bean Sprouts is coming to WYOU in April.

A locally-produced kids cooking show, each week Bean Sprouts will feature two back-to-back 15 minute episodes. From tacos to dessert, don't miss this informative and entertaining program designed for younger viewers.

Wednesdays at 4:00 pm with a repeat performance on Fridays at 11:00 am.

Virtual Rock Band Contest on WYOU

ROCK BAND owners, players, fanatics......
You’ve played it, now take the stage in rock history. WYOU Community Television Cable Channel 4 welcomes all ages to compete in Madison's first televised "Virtual band" contest, with prizes for best performances. Must own Rock Band box set and own PS2 or 3 or X-BOX 360 to bring to studio. Also, 4 members and instruments are required. $20.00 tax deductible entry fee, includes DVD of taped performance. Call Craig at 445-4980 by 3/31/08

New WYOU Board Members Elected at Meeting Held at Wilmar Center

This past weekend, the WYOU annual membership meeting at the Wilmar Center in Madison was a success. Director Charles Uphoff spoke to the gathering about the state of the station as well as the need for board members to get involved with fund raising (due to the passing of the Video Competition Act which effectively placed a sunset on PEG funding in three years).

Following the Executive Director's statements, attendees heard from Eric Allin, the station's Technical Director and then Robert Lughai, Program Coordinator & Education Director.

The membership then listened to statements from those board members on the ballot before casting votes.

New board members: Natalie Hinckley, Craig Meyer (newly-appointed Treasurer), Steve Singer, and Yamina Stiet. They join existing members: Jeremy Rintz (Chair), Guy Swansboro (Vice-Chair), Sara Meredith (Secretary), Rosemary Bodolay, and Heidi Johnson.

WYOU MEMBERSHIP MEETING

WYOU Memebership Meeting

COME ONE COME ALL!

When: 2 PM, Saturday, February 23, 2008

Where: Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center
953 Jenifer Street
(from the capitol, go east on Williamson, right on Patterson, left on Jenifer)

Senator Erpenbach Pays Visit to WYOU

State Senator Jon Erpenbach visited WYOU Studio today, February 21, to film an interview with Steve Singer, host of ShrinkRap! Wisconsin. Senator Erpenbach is a strong supporter of local control of media, and voted against the AT&T-sponsored Video Competition Act last November, in his ongoing effort to foster good government in District 27 and throughout Wisconsin.

Jon and Steve discussed a wide range of topics, from the inner workings of the state senate, to problems in the local economy, to health care, and to the presidential race. The show will air in early March, in the ShrinkRap! Wisconsin timeslots - Mondays at 7PM, Tuesdays at 11:30AM, and Fridays at 2PM.

Producer Sankulay Jallow Meets Major Garrett

Sankulay Jallow, producer of WYOU's West Africa Experience: Music from the Continent, covered the recent visit to Madison of presidential candidate Barack Obama. While taping, he bumped into Major Garrett, a congressional correspondent for FOX News Channel. Garrett is responsible for covering congressional elections and all breaking news on Capitol Hill.

Below is the hand-written note Garrett gave to Jallow:

Mayor Cieslewicz visits WYOU

Madison's Mayor Dave Cieslewicz visited WYOU Studio today to film an interview with Steve Singer, host of ShrinkRap! Wisconsin. The mayor is a long-time supporter of local control of media, and has opposed the AT&T-sponsored Video Competition Act, in his efforts to support good government. Mayor Dave and Steve discussed a wide range of topics, including his work as mayor, his thoughts on the presidential race, and his cameo appearances on the Chad Vader series. The show airs during the ShrinkRap! Wisconsin time slots, through late February, Mondays at 7PM, Tuesdays at 11:30AM, and Fridays at 2PM.

New Classes coming to WYOU

NEW CLASSES OFFERED:

INTRO TO GREEN/BLUE SCREEN TECHNIQUES:
Monday, March 3rd
6-8pm
(1-session course -- $15)
Learn to use chroma key techniques in your video work. "Keying" is a term used for when a background is removed from a subject. This allows a weatherman to be superimposed on animated maps or Frodo to appear in lava-filled Mount Doom. This tutorial will take you all the way from a studio shoot to final compositing (merging background and subject) on Final Cut Pro.

TITLING 101:
Monday, March 19th
6-8pm
(1-session course -- $15)
Easily learn to use Apple's LiveType to spice up your titles, credits, lower thirds and more! This tutorial will introduce you to the library of backgrounds and animated fonts available within LiveType. We'll then take these component pieces and put them together within Final Cut Pro to make truly professional-level credits and titles.

STUDIO MICROPHONES 101:
Coming Soon
6-8pm
(1-session course -- $15)
Become familiar with and learn to properly use the wide variety of microphones available at the WYOU studio in your video work. From hand-helds, lavalieres, and shotguns, to boom poles, phantom power, gain, EQ, and feedback. MMMM...Feedback.

COLOR CORRECTION:
Coming Soon
6-8pm
(1-session course -- $15)
From our manual camera controller units in our control room to light settings on our checkout Canon GL1 cameras, there are many ways to go right and wrong. Learn to get good color the first time in this tutorial of this equipment. Then Learn to use post-production techniques in Final Cut Pro to get your recorded color (good OR bad) to truly professional (or, at least acceptable) balance.

ADVANCED GREEN SCREEN IN
AFTER EFFECTS :
Coming Soon
6-8pm
(1-session course -- $15)
Take your green screen editing techniques to a new level using the dynamite program Adobe After Effects.

MOBILE MIXING 101:
Coming Soon
6-8pm
(1-session course -- $15)
Learn to use our mobile mixing unit (available for checkout ONLY to certified producers) to produce real-time mixes with multiple cameras. Mix rockin' band concerts, nerdy lectures, or exciting sporting events all in real-time, cutting the need for post-production beyond adding titles.

ShrinkRap Wisconsin

Steve Singer MD is a psychiatrist and host of ShrinkRap! Wisconsin. The show combines his interest in psychiatry, politics, work, and leisure, and features interviews with politicians, public officials, active citizens, psychologists, business owners, and others willing to talk publicly about their work with a shrink.
Some of Steve's past guests have included Representative Tammy Baldwin, Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk, political polling expert Dr. Charles Franklin, Municipal Court Judge Hamdy Ezalarab, 2nd District Democratic Party Chair Peter Rickman, Public Interest Advocate Cynthia Laitman, and many others. Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz will tape an interview at WYOU studio on February 11. A show covering the recent juggling festival is also in the works.
Steve's lively and probing questions delve into what motivates people who are drawn to politics, public service, and creative work and play. He creates an atmosphere that is comfortable and informal and affords his guests an opportunity to transcend the sound-bites that too often characterize public discourse.

Cap Times Exposes Corrupt Video Competition Act

Cap Times reporter Doug Moe responds to criticism by State Senator Jeff Plale of community television in general, and Cooking With Bob in particular, in his February 5 editorial. Moe writes, "We have a channel in Madison of a guy grilling a chicken; sometimes he grills lambchops," says Plale. "Should the ratepayers really pay for that?" Moe's response: "The answer to that question is an unequivocal yes."

Senator Plale, it turns out, is merely doing the bidding of the American Legislative Exchange Council, an organization devoted to privatization and corporatization of publicly held interests. Read Doug Moe's article here. Thanks Doug!