Web TV Channel Focuses Exclusively on Cities
According to the organization, NLC TV will provide live and taped Web cast coverage of NLC conferences and other events as well as video programming on successful initiatives, lessons learned and best practices being applied in cities.
“This is information about cities; it is information for cities; and it is a way of getting information out so it is relevant, targeted and timely,” NLC Executive Director Donald Borut said.
The inaugural July newscast features NLC’s response to the recent FBI report showing growing violence in smaller cities; recent news from the California Cities Gang Prevention Network; current efforts to address the problem of foreclosures; and recent court actions on telecom. Also included is information concerning the upcoming Congress of Cities being held in November in New Orleans.
“We are living in a visual society. If we want to be at the cutting edge, we’ve got to use new technologies and NLC TV is exactly that,” Borut said. “What we’re doing here is making it possible to provide information that is Web-based, that is digital and that can be used by local elected officials and their citizens, to be able to communicate what is happening in our cities.”
NLC said that NLC TV video will be available in digital broadcast quality for use by television news outlets and local cable channels.
To visit the NLC TV Web site, click here.