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Northwest Suburbs to Launch City Meeting Webcasting Services
August 27, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Brooklyn Park, MN– Area residents will soon be able to see many of their local city’s meetings live on the internet, and will be able to watch replays of all or part of those meetings at their convenience through a link on their city’s web site.
The Northwest Suburbs Cable Communications Commission (NWSCCC) has funded and is coordinating this project for its nine member cities: Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Crystal, Golden Valley, Maple Grove, New Hope, Osseo, Plymouth and Robbinsdale. The NWSCCC negotiates, adopts and enforces cable franchise agreements with cable television providers in the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition, the NWSCCC provides and funds Northwest Community Television and Channel 12.
The new on-line service is powered by San Francisco-based Granicus, Inc., the premier provider of government webcasting and public meeting management solutions to nearly 400 government agencies spanning 39 states across the nation.
Deployment of the system will be in stages over the next several months, with completion anticipated by the end of December, 2008. The first two cities to go on-line with the service will be Brooklyn Center and Crystal scheduled for early September. Residents should watch their city newsletters, websites and local newspapers for more information on when their city’s service will be activated and how to access the on-demand video offerings.
NWSCCC’s Granicus Solution includes streaming software to capture, manage, store and distribute online video recordings. The video page includes an agenda keyword search so users can simply search for an issue they are interested in watching. The video player window will include the meeting agenda with links to access specific agenda items within the archived meeting. Archived meetings will generally be available for viewing by the morning after the meeting takes place. Meetings will be archived and available for viewing for one year.
Residents will be able to access the live and on-demand video offerings through a link on their city’s website. From there they will be redirected to the host site provided by the Northwest Suburbs Cable Communications Commission at www.nwsccc.org.
City meetings that are currently cablecast on Channel 16 will still be seen live on that channel and replayed at their regular times. The webcasting service will be in addition to the cablecasting services that have been provided since 1982 by the NWSCCC and Northwest Community Television.
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