 Davis Media Access is a community media center serving Davis, California, and surrounding areas. The local media and community development work we carry out at Davis Media Access, known as DMA, takes place in the context of a much larger technological landscape. We actively track media policy and participate with others, both locally and around the country, to protect the resources that help individuals and organizations to document, communicate, and collaborate. Technology will continue to change, and that makes the work of DMA more relevant. DMA helps people build critical skills, but also uses that technology to strengthen community. People need to connect, to share their stories, air their concerns, promote their events. They need to do this at a local level with content relevant to their neighborhoods and their lives. Commercial media is often costly, doesn't invite participation, and represents a narrow spectrum of voices owned by a very few companies. Noncommercial community media teaches both digital literacy and media production, all while highlighting the voices of nonprofits, community activists, and marginalized perspectives. DMA's main projects are DCTV, Public Access, Television Channel 15, Educational Access Channel 17, and KDRTLP, 95.7 FM, Low Power Community Radio for Davis and Beyond. Through partnerships with the City of Davis and the Davis Joint Unified School District, DMA provides the public with access to video and television equipment, training, and unique programming. Through partnerships with other nonprofits, schools, businesses, concert venues, and musicians, as well as several UC Davis departments, DMA helps support creativity and good works. We round out our offerings with digital equipment and social media, topical workshops, several local programming archives, participation in open source software projects, youth media projects, local studio productions, event coverage, and advocacy and information for broader media issues. Our mission is to enrich and strengthen the community by providing alternatives to commercial media for local voices, opinions, and creative endeavors. DMA is committed to strengthening localism through media and is proud to support platforms for free local expression. Davis Community Television, known as DCTV, is the heart of DMA and where it all started nearly 27 years ago. As a public access channel, that's Channel 15 on the Comcast System and Channel 99 on the U-Verse System, DMA welcomes all members of the community to learn hands-on aspects of video production from planning to studio production to editing and distribution. DCTV has grown from a single public access channel to the media center as it is today. In 2015, DCTV aired over 600 first-run non-commercial programs, 156 of which were produced by local volunteers using our state-of-the-art resources and facilities. Last year, volunteers logged 800 hours of edit suite time, 300 hours of studio time, and 10,000 hours of field equipment usage. DCTV produces three episodes of In the Studio each month providing a platform for exploring issues of local interest. These shows are managed by DMA staff but crude and sometimes produced by volunteers who contributed 350 hours of time to this effort in 2015. DCTV also produces local election programming, including candidate and issue forums, meet the candidate's statements for local contested races, and live election night coverage. Events such as PSA Day serve and highlight local nonprofits. In 2015, 14 nonprofits took part in this event. As resources allow, DMA covers other local events of note, ranging from the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration to the Interfaith Climate Conference, the U.S. Bicycle Hall of Fame installation, concerts, lectures, community forums, and more. From the vault highlights some of the more than 10,000 locally produced programs in the DCTV Archive. DCTV maintains a digital archive on our website at archive.org and on YouTube with 420 programs on demand and 100 subscribers resulting in more than 2,000 views per month. From a scrappy station that struggled to get on the air, now 11 years old, KDRT has found an audience and thanks to social media and online archives an ever-expanding listener base. In 2015, KDRT had 41 radio programmers who produced over 1,600 radio shows. DMA holds the license and provides organizational support for KDRT The station's day-to-day operations are the purview of its all-volunteer management team. This team tirelessly promotes KDRT via live remotes throughout Davis and live music events in partnerships with the Davis Music Festival, the Davis Odd Fellows, the Davis Live Music Collective, and many others. The community has responded with over 3,000 followers on the KDRT Facebook page, 1,000 followers on Twitter, and extensive listenership of archive programs on the KDRT website. Since launching, the station has diversified the community's media options. Davis sites have a choice of media, varied training programs for different ages and abilities, and an opportunity to broadcast and receive local content via free radio. KDRT is nationally known for its leadership on low-power FM radio and locally has become a bright light and center of alternative arts and culture in Davis. DMA is responsible for the day-to-day management of educational access Channel 17. In partnership with school district staff, DMA staff manages the production and promotion of Channel 17's schedule, its high school internship program, its website at djusd.davismedia.org, and related initiatives. In addition, we work with many DJUSD teachers and parent liaisons. Many recordings are made into DVDs, which are then sold to benefit parent booster groups such as Davis Schools Orchestral Music Association, or DSOMA. DMA's internship is competitive and well utilized. In 2015, nine interns from Davis High, DaVinci, and King High schools were trained in production, post-production, and digital file management. With their help last year, we recorded 50 programs such as volleyball and football games, Davis Community Idol, Everybody Dance Now, and DHS Jazz Extravaganza, a tribute to Tony Fields, all high school graduations, and secondary orchestra and band performances. We hope you've enjoyed this brief look at the work that unfolds at Davis Media Access over the course of a year. Our work happens because curious people walk through the doors, and if we're doing our jobs well, curiosity quickly becomes something else. A love of learning, an enjoyment of process, immersion in a community of passionate advocates for community media. We're grateful to our institutional and community partners, our board of directors, staff, and the countless volunteers who help make Davis Media Access a truly unique learning environment. For more information, a list of our donors for 2015, and links to all our websites and archives, please visit davismedia.org. For our financials and other narrative, please see our guide star giving edge profile. Davis Media Access is located at 1623 Fifth Street in Davis, California, and may be reached by calling 530-757-2419 or emailing info at davismedia.org.