Overview of Services:
All of our equipment and resources are available to your organization free of charge!
1) Free Training: If you are a Manhattan based not-for-profit organization your members can receive free TV-making training—so your organization can communicate with your members or reach a broader public. (Please see “Training & Resources” for details)
2) Community Media Grant Program: Generally, once a year MNN provides community-based organizations with an opportunity to apply for community media grants to support the purchase of video equipment for your organization, to assist the training of your members, and to help with other expenses linked to your media project.
3) Facilitated Productions: In certain circumstances, we will provide your organization with a video crew—all you have to do bring is your ideas to our studios and we will supply all the staff and skills needed to make your own television program.
4) Airing Pre-Produced Programs: Your organization can send us a completed video program and/or a short Public Service Announcement and we will air it on our MNN channels.
Training & Resources:
Television Studios
Ideal for talk shows, live call-in shows, drama, cultural, musical and other live performances. Requires a trained crew of four or more people to operate. Studios are located at our 59th street and Chinatown locations. All our studios are equipped with the tools you need to make professional studio-television programs including titling equipment, tape deck to “roll-in” previously recorded footage, and telephones for live “call-in” from the public.
“Express” Television Studios
Ideal for live call-in shows, on-air talk and advice shows. Requires a trained crew of one or more people to operate.
Camcorders
Ideal for making shows on location around the city. We offer regular workshops on how to use camcorders and other location equipment—such as microphones and lights. Once trained, members of the public may borrow camcorders free of charge to create programs for MNN.
Video Editing
We offer computer editing classes in Apple based iMovie and Final Cut Pro software.
For information about how your organization can begin making its own local television programming, please email:cm@mnn.org
You can also call the Community Media Department hotline at: (212) 757-2670, ext.352.
