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Open Signal is a nonprofit media arts center in Portland, Oregon that has managed the city's PEG access resources since 1981, first as Portland Community Media and rebranded as Open Signal in January 2017, with a mission to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.
Open Signal operates five cable channels on Xfinity including Pulse of Portland (Channel 29, alternative news, arts, and youth filmmaking), CityNet (Channel 30, round-the-clock Multnomah County meeting and public affairs coverage), and shared regional channels, while providing free media production training and equipment access, a cinema-quality camera library, and animation and other specialized equipment to Portland-area community members. The organization holds a commitment to equity that explicitly acknowledges that neutral "first come, first served" policies cannot address structural injustice, and actively works to center underrepresented communities in its services.
Portland residents across the city's neighborhoods - from immigrant communities producing programming in their own languages to Native American organizations, artists, and civic activists - rely on Open Signal for the free-speech broadcast platform, media education, and civic programming that give Portland's full community spectrum access to television that commercial media cannot provide.
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