COMMUNITY ON AIR; COUPLE TUNES IN TO PUBLIC TV.Byline: Victoria Giraud Special to the Daily News After many years of working at a variety of jobs, Jeannette and Peter Scoville both work in community television on public access stations - mainly because of Earth Day. Peter is the local origination/access manager of TCI (Trustworthy Computing Initiative) An umbrella term from Microsoft for its efforts to improve security in Windows. TCI was announced in 2002 after viruses such as Code Red and Nimda had succeeded in attacking numerous Windows computers. in Ventura County, while Jeannette is the director of programming local origination In broadcasting, local origination may refer to:
They found their way to public access television because Jeannette was part of the 1990 Earth Day event at California Lutheran University Mission statement The University's mission statement is as follows: "California Lutheran University is a diverse, scholarly community dedicated to excellence in the liberal arts and professional studies. . Since the event eventually drew 11,000 people, she decided it needed to be videotaped. ``I wanted to document it,'' Jeannette says. She called the local cable company (Ventura County Cablevision) at the time to see about TV cameras, ``and found that I had to take classes, and there was a waiting list.'' Luckily she found a trained cameraman for Earth Day, but the interest in TV persisted, and Jeannette signed up to learn how to run TV equipment. When the day arrived, Peter, who'd had a long career in computer management, decided to go along. Afterwards, Jeannette thought, ``We ought to do something with our new knowledge.'' Their first public access show on Channel 8 was ``Love and Life Recipes.'' The recipes were all based on raw food, but Jeannette was amazed a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. . ``We put a call number on the screen, and I couldn't believe how many calls there were.'' They were hooked. In 1991 they created ``Focus on the Environment'' and ended up putting together 400 shows over a 5-year span. Peter did the videotaping, Jeannette was the host and did the editing. Taping the show took them all over. First Christian School A Christian School is a school run on Christian principles or by a Christian organization. The nature of Christian schools varies enormously from country to country according to the religious, educational, and political culture. preschoolers and kindergartners had turned their classroom into a rain forest and done reports on endangered animals. Jeannette interviewed each child on camera and was astounded a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, at their sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. : ``These kids sounded like professors.'' Focusing on the environment gave them a wide berth of topics. They interviewed a Russian major general in charge of the cleanup from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, who showed very graphic slides on the human side of the tragedy. One show depicted growing rare fruit, another showed how to graft fruit, and one was about the miniature boats in Oxnard's Maritime Museum A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on seas and lakes. A naval museum focuses on navies and military use of the sea. . Volunteer TV programming turned into a job for Peter. ``Because we had been going to the studio and using the equipment so often, I happened to be there when they had a sudden need for staff,'' he recalled. When 20 hours a week turned into 60, Peter was hired, and has been at the TCI studio facility on Agoura Road since 1991. Falcon heard about Jeannette's work with the Women's Commission for Ventura County and recruited her to create community programming. There was no equipment when she came on board, she said. In her nearly three years there, Jeannette has created a magazine show, ``Community Viewpoint,'' that promotes special local events or soft news. ``I love what I do. It shows the best of human nature,'' Jeannette says. She coaches those who are there to record messages. ``When they are nervous, I tell people to let their enthusiasm show.'' Jeannette and Peter grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay . Peter's father helped to build the Golden Gate Bridge Golden Gate Bridge, across the Golden Gate from San Francisco to Marin Co., W Calif.; built 1933–37. Its overall length is 9,266 ft (2,824 m); its main span across the strait, 4,200 ft (1,280 m), is one of the longest bridges in the world. Joseph B. . Jeannette's home was the Beverly Plaza Hotel The Plaza Hotel in New York City is a landmark 19-story luxury hotel with a height of 250 feet (76 m) and length of 400 feet that (122 m) occupies the west side of Grand Army Plaza, from which it derives its name, and extends along Central Park South in Manhattan. near San Francisco's Chinatown, where her father was the manager. Peter's career with computers, which began in 1970 - ``I was right on the ground floor'' - took them around the country and to several California locations. While Peter was dealing with inventory management for a spice company in garlicky gar·lick·y adj. Containing, tasting of, or smelling of garlic. Adj. 1. garlicky - relating to or tasting or smelling of garlic; "garlicky sauce" Gilroy, Jeannette was creating a summer recreation program for children, including their own three. When they left Gilroy, where the hot air blowers drying the garlic saturated the atmosphere both inside and outside, Peter chuckled, ``I had to throw away my suits.'' Community TV is an absorbing passion for the Scovilles. ``Anybody who lives in the community can get a TV show,'' Peter points out. There's ``free training, free editing, a free studio and free air time. We'll even loan them the tape.'' As for the future, Jeannette says, ``We're both interested in the documentary as an art form.'' CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Jeannette and Peter Scoville found their way to public access TV because of Jeannette's involvement in a 1990 Earth Day event. Bob Halvorsen/Daily News |
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