Saint Paul Neighborhood Network
| Type | Community Media |
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| Country | United States |
| Availability | Cable subscribers living in Saint Paul, Minnesota |
| Slogan | "Building Community Through Television" |
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Launch date
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1984 |
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Official website
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http://www.spnn.org |
Saint Paul Neighborhood Network, or SPNN is a non-profit community media center and cable television station located in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. Cable-casting on five channels, it reaches more than 52,000 cable households. SPNN maintains an official Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/myspnn.
SPNN was created in 1984 under the name "Cable Access St. Paul" when the city set up its first cable television franchise. In 1995, the station changed its name to "Saint Paul Neighborhood Network." SPNN's channel numbers were changed during St. Paul's switch to digital cable in 2003, and it currently operates non-commercial channels 14, 15, 16, 19 and 20 on the Saint Paul cable system.
SPNN also has credit for producing and broadcasting programs that moved up the ladder to TPT (KTCA), the Twin Cities non-profit broadcast television organization and its affiliated network, PBS. These shows include Mental Engineering, aired on PBS, and Kev Koom Siab, aired on TPT. Currently, several programs on TPT's Minnesota Channel are produced at SPNN.
SPNN, as with most Public-access television cable TV stations, offers the use of its equipment and programs to anyone who wishes to create media. By joining SPNN, members can sign up for instructional classes on studio or field production techniques and practices, become certified to use equipment and check out the equipment through its Access Department. Members can also take advantage of three, Mac-based editing suites, including Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro and Adobe Photoshop. Members' finished programs air on one of several Public-access television channels.
We have 11 digital cameras, 3 edit rooms, one studio, several light kits and miscellaneous audio gear available to create a program. Once member media has been created using SPNN facilities, members must share their program on one of SPNN's channels.
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