Chicago Independent TV

Chicago Independent Television is the monthly television series of the Chicago Independent Media Center.

Download the shows here.

We are the Chicago Indymedia Video Collective. We operate along the same lines as Indymedia, fostering the same ideals and processes.

We are a collective of media producers, activists, videographers and concerned citizens offering your alternative to mainstream corporate coverage of local and international events, movements and expression.

CHICAGO INDEPENDENT TELEVISION IS CABLECAST ON CAN TV
(cable channel 19 in Chicago) on the first and third Monday of the month at 11pm.

ON DISH NETWORK: Chicago Independent Television airs on national satellite, on Free Speech TV (Dish Network channel 9415). Learn more and check listings for airtimes:

http://www.freespeech.org

WHO WE ARE:
The Chicago Independent Media Center Video Collective produces Chicago Independent Television. In the summer of 2003 the idea of an independent television show, free from corporate bias and serving the needs of the community, was conceived. Chicago Independent Television is the result of that movement.

Our mission is to provide YOUR CORPORATE NEWS ALTERNATIVE.

PLEASE JOIN US!
Our Video Collective meets at 7PM every 1st and 3rd Monday, sometimes at the IMC headquarters, 3411 W. Diversey in Chicago, though we often change meeting venues – please contact us if you’re planning to attend a meeting).

OUR WISH LIST:
Our work requires supplies and equipment. We are gladly accepting the following resources:

Blank Tapes (Mini-DV or VHS)
Blank DVD’s
Lights
Microphones
Walkie Talkies
Camcorders and Camcorder Batteries
Firewire Hard Drives, DVD burners

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Please submit any video material, bumpers, artwork or queries to the Chicago Independent Media Center:
3411 W. Diversey, Suite 1, Chicago, IL 60647
773-384-8544 chicago.indymedia.org or email us: imc-chicago-video@lists.indymedia.org

!	How It Works

SEND US YOUR VIDEOS!!!
We are looking for videos between 3 to 8 minutes in length, preferably themed to Chicago and/or social justice. However, if you have pieces that are longer or shorter than this or that don't fit these themes but would still like to submit them for consideration, please do so and we?ll see what we can do.

We are also looking for ?Bumpers? to fit between the video pieces that we show. These should incorporate a mention of Chicago Independent Television in order for our audience to know what they are watching, but otherwise you have free reign with the format. These should be roughly 8 seconds long.

If you need a frame of reference for this kind of work, think of MTV in the early days when the station accepted submitted videos of a given length (the music videos) and also artistic animations and videos incorporating the MTV logo that were used to interject the videos and reinforce the logo. These were MTV?s bumpers. As long as you mention Chicago Independent Television in the bumpers, you can pretty much do what you want!

If we are happy that the material you submit is of broadcast quality (we?ll help you with this if you need it!) and will fit into one of our shows, we will include it.

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