About the station
Austin Public is the public access community media operation for the City of Austin, Texas, operated by the Austin Film Society on behalf of the City since 2015, and home to what is recognized as Channel 10 - the longest continually running public access station in the country.
Austin Public operates cable channels 10, 11, and 16 through local cable providers with simultaneous streaming and video-on-demand, offering low- and no-cost training, equipment, studio facilities, and content distribution to all Austin residents. The station traces its roots to 1972 when University of Texas Radio-TV-Film students and community activists launched Austin Community Television, which went on to produce an estimated 500,000 hours of original programming and twice win the Alliance for Community Media's Community Communications Award.
Austin residents and the city's independent creative community have long used the public access channels to produce everything from political commentary and music videos to church services and children's programming - a free-speech platform that helped define Austin's character as a city that believes everyone has something worth saying.
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