Comcast Cable pays franchise fees to the City of Davis in return for access to the public rights of way. The Davis City Council elects to fund three community channels with those funds. Together these channels are referred to as PEG (for public, educational and government) access channels.
DMA's Channel 15 is the public access channel, with services and equipment available to all individuals who live, work or study in Davis, and organizations that serve our community. Our programming is as diverse as those who make it. The City of Davis operates government Channel 16, which televises City Council meetings and other civic events.
The Davis Joint Unified School District partners with DMA to manage educational access Channel 17. DMA recruits and trains production interns from the local high schools. Along with other production staff, the interns record a variety of events. Community favorites include football, basketball and water polo games; concerts and other performing arts events; and all five of the local high school graduations. We also produce specialty programming such as school climate talk shows or occasional DJUSD Board of Education meetings.
DMA also originates playback of Channel 17 programming, shares in equipment purchasing and maintenance, and provides other support services for the channel. We have partnered with the school district since since since 1997 and are pleased to help generate such important local programming.