After 40 years of bringing Iowa City community-based television programming, Channel 18 will go dark, as Public Access Television (PATV) heads in a new direction. PATV is merging with another long-time local cultural institution, Public Space One (PS1) to “form one, integrated non-profit organization designed to provide enhanced community access to a wide variety of media, digital production, and creative support services across Johnson County,” according to written statement issued by the two organizations on Wednesday.
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Inaugural Bike-in Theatre event to screen ‘The Milpitas Monster’
Bike-in Theatre: The Milpitas Monster PATV parking lot — Friday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. Iowa City’s PATV Channel 18 (206 Lafayette St.) will be clearing out its parking lot tonight for its first Bike-in Theatre — an event that encourages area bicyclists to ride in to their lot for the B-horror and stay for […]
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PATV competition gives area filmmakers 48 hours to do their best (or worst)
PATV Channel 18′s first-ever No Sleep 48 Hour Film Festival is scheduled to kick off on October 17th at 7:30 p.m., challenging teams of local filmmakers to create…
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Fellow musicians collaborate on tribute album for deceased IC artist
Areli “Jamal” Morgan River, also known as John Fields, Jamma Joe, Chapped Reggie and other personae, was an Iowa City writer, performer, painter, video producer…
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Moon Zero Three premiers Thursday 2/28 at PATV
Tonight marks the release of the first installment of long-awaited, locally produced sci-fi epic Moon Zero Three. (Starring former Hawkeye basketball star Acie Earl!) Check out the trailer and head over to PATV (206 Lafayette) for the 7 p.m. screening.
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The Way of Tack
Features: March 2010 – There’s a disconnect between meeting Tim Tack–an Iowa City hip hop producer and PATV’s Assistant Community Programmer–and seeing Tack Fu, his alter ego, host of channel 18’s “85 dB TV.” But not what you’d assume. The former brims over with outsized energy for his professions, which he takes very seriously. And […]
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Iowa City Weekender: October 8-10
Good Weekend to You, Weekenders! First, a mighty huge thank you to Drug Rug for the kick ass in-studio set on last night’s edition of Little Village Radio, on KRUI. If you were at their show at The Picador last night, with Portugal. the man, you know this band is for real. For those of […]
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Iowa City Weekender – August 20-24
Welcome to Welcome Weekend, Weekenders! Yes, a weekend ‘specially designed for one of my favorite things: Sensory Overload. Our brains a-tingle, our appendages perhaps convulsing, our bewildered eyeballs falling out of our heads on their springs; from now until next Monday, life will feel like one long sneeze. But going off to college isn’t all […]
