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HISTORIC WEEK!

In case you missed it, last week's main TV Humboldt programming line-up was a milestone for the channel, because we
DID NOT RELY ON YOUTUBE'S 
TECHNOLOGY OR CONTENT!

We took our first test flight last week to try out our own video player technology. That's right, we leapt out of the "Mama's Birdnest" that is YouTube, to give our own new wings their first real trial.

If you missed it, you can still watch it by clicking here.

Although not entirely without complications, it was a SUCCESS!

And so,

TV Humboldt has now proven that
local online television 
can be done
here in Humboldt, 
independently, and 
without having to depend on 
the likes of YouTube!!

But is Humboldt smart enough to support an idea like that? Is Humboldt ready to help make last week's TOTALLY LOCAL INDEPENDENT BROADCAST an example of the rule, rather than of the exception?

Humboldt has an unusually vast pool of creativity, media skills, and talents that are being tragically underutilized, at least economically speaking!

But will there be enough enlightened local souls with enough imagination and fortitude to help assure that a project like TV Humboldt, which seeks to help correct this tragedy head-on, will get the nourishment and guidance it needs to follow through with its already partially-fulfilled promise to reinvent TV around the organically democratic principles of the "web 2.0" digital universe?

Will the media of the future be open, diverse, and interactive, or will the same old "Powers That Be" take over the internet like they've taken over most everything else, leaving the public dialogue controlled, filtered and moderated by the powerful?

There is no longer any reason whatsoever that the media industry needs to be dominated by Hollywood, or owned and controlled by the likes of Rupert Murdoch and Mickey Mouse. Internet technology has left such "top-down" heirarchical structures of media delivery quite obsolete.

But, will the right people, who catch the revolutionary drift of what TV Humboldt is about, even bother to click our " Help us Grow"  button to see if there's a way they can share the labors and rewards involved in assuring that Humboldt County realizes its potential as a model for a whole new kind of media system?

Only if we collectively and aggressively employ the new media technologies now available can we hope to preserve and expand upon Humboldt County's unique strengths to set the stage for a whole new model of media, where ideas and information can come from anywhere, and be transmitted  to  anywhere. There's no good reason why Humboldt can't become a prominent supplier of great media content. And TV Humboldt offers (to our knowledge) the only strategic plan to put our fair county at the forefront of the new media frontier. What better way to be a part of history and positive development than to participate in a new model of mass communication like TV Humboldt, and the TV Humboldt platform?!?!

Now is the time for a highly creative place like Humboldt County to reach for a larger piece of the media pie. We have plenty of readily-available technology, talent and know-how to develop a burgeoning local media industry strategically tailored around the emerging web-based independent media renaissance. That is, IF  we work together toward a strategy for such local economic reinvigoration, such as the plan we've already developed and have begun deploying at tvhumboldt.com!

Any smart, enterprising, visionary local business, media-maker, or entrepreneur should contact us to discuss how we can together use the changing mediascape to create unprecedented wealth, prosperity, influence, and creativity for Humboldt County in the 21st century.

To start the ball rolling, check out our  Help us Grow page. But be warned that the next step will require some initiative on your part.

So -- will Humboldt step up? If not, I may be able to maintain TV Humboldt indefinitely, as a hobby. Maybe. But based on who's currently doing what here in Humboldt, it's probably safe to say that "the TV Humboldt Strategy" is the best, and pretty much the ONLY, thing going to realize such transformational potentialities.

But our strategy is unlikely to play out properly without a deep level of collaboration with other ambitious and visionary local minds.

We invite other local businesses, entrepreneurs, media-makers, and other serious parties, to contact us to expore ways of bringing these remarkable opportunities and possibilities into full fruition! Please e-mail citizenmediaman AT gmail DOT com to let us know how you'd like to team up with us.

- Paul Benson
Creator and Volunteer-Perpetuator of TVHumboldt.com