Dublin Community Television

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Dublin Community Television (DCTV) is a not-for-profit co-operative television station in Ireland. It broadcasts from the country's capital, Dublin.[1] The channel launched on 16Script error: No such module "Unsubst". July[2] 2008.[3] It shut down 2013 - 2014 due to lack of funding, but came back on the air in 2015.[3]

The launch was attended by Minister Eamon Ryan, Department of Communications, Energy & Natural Resources.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". DCTV is Ireland's only co-operatively run TV channel,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and Dublin's only community TV station.[4]Template:Primary source inline It has offices in Temple Bar[5][6]Template:Primary source inline and The Digital Hub in Dublin.[4]Template:Primary source inline

The channel broadcasts on television as well as online services such as YouTube and Vimeo.[3]

Production and programming

DCTV is a member's co-operative.[3] DCTV is funded by membership fees, alongside local and national government funding, and community organisations.[4]Template:Primary source inline The station does not run advertising.[4]Template:Primary source inline

Programs for DCTV are created and produced by sources which include:Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

  • Not-for-profit TV production companies, such as NEAR TV Productions in Coolock.
  • Other DCTV member organizations, such as AONTAS (adult education), Cultivate (sustainable living), Project (arts); NALA (adult literacy).
  • Individual members of DCTV.

It provides training for its members in television production.[3] Its own productions are produced under a Creative Commons license that allows non-profit use, subject to recognition of source.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 2011 during the Post-2008 Irish economic downturn Dublin CTV opened up production facilities in disused shopfronts for unemployed locals and students to create media for digital broadcast.[7]

The channel airs features and shorts (both documentary and drama), cookery programs, adult literacy programmes, activist and college films, community programming, films by young/emerging film-makers and sports (with an emphasis on minority sports).Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

The station also shows international material such as Democracy Now![6]Template:Primary source inline

In 2012 as part of the local Occupy movement DCTV broadcast a series of local lectures relating to "radical movements in Irish history".[8]

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