Channel 17 and the Standard-Examiner Come Through With Pre-recorded Ogden City City Council Video Broadcasts

Watch taped Emerald City Council sessions from the comfort of your easy-chairs

We were quite delighted to read this morning's Standard-Examiner story, reporting that Ogden's Channel 17 will begin broadcasting pre-recorded Ogden City Council sessions, starting this very day. And lo and behold, having navigated to the Std-Ex "Live" site we discover that the the Std-Ex actually furnishes a broadcast sampling of several portions of last Tuesday's council session right there in a video player, embedded within today's online story, (although we'd have greatly preferred to have been offered a gavel-to-gavel, unedited broadcast):

• Council meeting to be televised

Still, this is what we call progress. We've earlier railed about setting up such broadcasts here and here, and we can't contain our joy to find out that media entities such as the Standard-Examiner and Channel 17 are working behind the scenes, following through, and at least beginning to make city council meeting broadcasts available to all interested Emerald City lumpencitizens, particularly those whose schedules won't accommodate live City Council meeting attendance.

We have a call in to Channel 17 station manager Bill Francis, by the way, and will update this article when he's able to provide specific information with regard to Comcast Cable scheduling. Channel 17 is of course also available via the net.

Who will be the first to comment?

Update 8/6/09 3;52 p.m. MT: For what it's worth, Channel 17 management has apparently updated its online schedule sometime during the day. According to to this latest information, full gavel-to-gavel council broadcasts will occur at these times daily during the upcoming week: 12:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m and 7:30 p.m .

That's the best we can do regarding Channel 17 scheduling until further notice, folks.

Your blogmeister also had a brief conversation with station manager Bill Francis a few minutes ago. He's been dealing hands on with technical glitches this afternoon, so we didn't have time to discuss the nuances. We'll be sure to report back later however, once we've had the opportunity to fully interview Mr. Francis.