By Daily Press staff
CityTV, the government access cable channel for the City of Santa Monica, has announced its “Vote 2002” line-up of pro-gramming for this year’s election.
The line-up represents CityTV’s most ambitious election programming efforts ever. In all, the channel will produce 17 election programs and provide all-night election results on Nov. 5.
New this year is ballot measure pro-gramming which will cover all seven Santa Monica ballot measures. Representatives for and against each ballot measure will debate each other. (See schedule below).
The public is invited to be a part of the studio audience. The ballot measure programs are produced in partnership with the Center for Governmental Studies, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that works to create innovative solutions to improve civic engagement in communities and governments.
The channel has partnered with the Center for Governmental Studies to also produce City Council candidate program-ming. In addition to an introductory “Meet the Candidates” series, council candidates also will participate in a new series of five short interviews which will each focus on a Santa Monica related issue. The issues were selected based upon the results of the city’s annual resident satisfaction survey.
The election programming culminates on Wednesday, Oct. 23 when CityTV will present a three-hour live program with school board candidates featured from 7-8 p.m. and City Council candidates featured from 8-10 p.m. The candidates will answer and debate questions presented by the community and the Santa Monica local press. The new program format will feature debate, rebuttal and follow-up questions.
In partnership with the League of Women Voters of Santa Monica Education Fund, CityTV is producing Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD) Board programming and coverage of the League’s candidate forums for the Santa Monica College District Board, Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District Board of Education and the Santa Monica Rent Control Board.
Election night brings the finale to CityTV’s election programming.
The results are updated throughout the evening and will continue to air on the channel until the next day at noon.
To help make the election program-ming schedule more widely accessible, CityTV and the Center for Governmental Studies have also created a web site.
SMVOTE.org features candidate profiles, video interviews, ballot measure information, useful links, a community calendar of election related activities and program schedule information for CityTV’s many election programs.
CityTV is seen on cable channel 16 in the City of Santa Monica. The channel reaches more than 24,000 cable television households in the city. In addition to election programming, CityTV airs a variety of local news, sports, performing arts and public meeting coverage.
For the first time, CityTV is producing local ballot measure programming. Both sides of each measure have been invited to participate in a roundtable discussion about the ballot measure.
CityTV is inviting the public to be a part of the studio audience for CityTV’s tapings of Vote 2002: Santa Monica Ballot Measures.
The shows are all being taped on Sunday, Oct. 13, at the Powerhouse Theater, 3166 2nd Street in Santa Monica. Show tap-ings begin at 1 p.m. and go until 7 p.m.
Audience members may submit questions that may be asked as part of the show. Here is the taping schedule: 1:00 P.M. Ballot Measure FF (rent control) and Ballot Measure GG (rent control board compensation) 2:30 P.M. Ballot Measure II (property conversion) and Ballot Measure KK (TORCA) 4 P.M. Ballot Measure EE (parcel tax) 5:30 P.M. Ballot Measure JJ (living wage) 7 P.M. Ballot Measure HH (Veritas) For more information, call (310) 458- 8590.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 8, 2002. Read the original PDF.