WSTO TV is the community media organization serving Stoughton, Wisconsin, a Dane County city southeast of Madison known as the Norwegian Capital of America for its strong Norwegian immigrant heritage and annual Syttende Mai celebration, providing PEG access television for this distinctive small Wisconsin city.
The organization provides public access cable television for Stoughton residents, covering city council and government meetings and offering community members the opportunity to produce and broadcast locally focused programming that reflects the distinctive Norwegian heritage and civic culture of this small Wisconsin city.
Stoughton residents rely on WSTO TV for the city council coverage and community programming that keeps this Dane County city - a community with an unusually cohesive cultural identity built on Norwegian heritage, strong civic traditions, and a genuine small-city pride - connected to its own governance and community life.
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Bob and Janeen Burrel were early grassroots pioneers of community television in Stoughton, Wisconsin, where their work helped create what became WSTO TV, one of the country’s earliest community access channels. Their story belongs to the moment before public access had settled into familiar language, funding structures, and station models.
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