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WisconsinEye - which provides gavel-to-gavel video coverage of state government - has reached an agreement to broadcast on the BadgerNet video network serving education and government sites throughout the state.
WisconsinEye President & CEO Chris Long said planning and installation of the required transmission equipment has already begun and WisconsinEye is expected to be available to BadgerNet Converged Network (BCN) video sites by January 15, 2008.
“WisconsinEye is committed to expanding public access to our programming. We’re delighted to be partnering with the State Department of Administration to make the channel available to BadgerNet’s long list of video clients across our state,” Long said.
The partnership with BadgerNet will bring WisconsinEye into more than 255 schools and 54 college campuses as well as organizations like the Experimental Aircraft Association, the Milwaukee Public Museum, the Fallen Timbers Environmental Center, and the Dane County Job Center.
“WisconsinEye has just the kind of public content that BadgerNet was created to provide for schools and public organizations,” said state Chief Information Officer Oskar Anderson. “Bringing WisconsinEye to more classrooms will help students gain a better understanding of how state government works.”
BadgerNet was created by the State of Wisconsin to provide next generation voice, data, and video services to state agencies, local governments, UW campuses, technical colleges, private colleges and universities, public and private K-12 schools, and libraries. A key goal of the BadgerNet project is to enhance statewide educational systems for both children and adults.
WisconsinEye is a private, not-for-profit statewide public affairs network whose mission is to provide independent, nonpartisan coverage of civic and community life in Wisconsin, beginning with gavel-to-gavel, unedited coverage of the actions of all three branches of state government in Madison.
The WisconsinEye channel, launched in May 2007, is available on digital cable at Charter Channel 200 and Time Warner Channel 163, and on the Internet at www.wiseye.org. A complete archive of the network’s programming is available at the Web site.
A bipartisan and nonpartisan donor community of individuals, foundations, organizations, and corporations is funding the network’s start-up operations.
Posted November 1, 2007