Go to Lifetime: www.metrotv.org.au/lifetime.php
Go to Country Cousins: www.metrotv.org.au/country-c.php

METRO-TV Inc makes Community TV for C31

C31's campaign to GO DIGITAL has been successful. 

You should now re-tune your set-top box which will pick up C31 at channel 44

COUNTRY COUSINS has returned!   TUESDAYS AT 3 PM !!
COUNTRY COUSINS - ALSO - THURSDAYS AT 9-30 AM

Email: MetroCTV@yahoo.com.au

Phone: 9758-8707

METRO-TV is a community organisation established in 2006 and affiliated since then with Melbourne's community television station - C31.  We were thrilled to achieve full Member status at C31 on 26th November, 2009!

We're an enthusiastic group - small but growing.  Our first program was Lifetime, originally developed by a "Senior Producers' Group" auspiced directly by C31.  METRO-TV was formed to keep this program going.  We've now made four series of Lifetime (now showing - this season on C31).

Go to Lifetime:  www.metrotv.org.au/lifetime.php

A major feature of our work is to train people in all aspects of making a TV program - "from go to whoa".  Eventually we were able to sub-divide into two Production Teams, taking on a second program, Country Cousins - now preparing for its fourth series to be shown from June, 2010.

Go to Country Cousins:  www.metrotv.org.au/country-c.php

We're working to develop more programs, training up a crew keen to offer some great original local children's theatre.  We're also keen to develop programs exploring health issues in more depth.

We have from time to time also produced "one-off" programs, such as The Great Australian Dunny Race in 2008 and Rockn' Suzie's Good Friday Appeal in 2009.  We recently filmed and broadcast Modern Farming - Survive or Thrive? (transferred to prime time screening).

As a small group, we welcome new members. 

The annual subscription fee is $30 which has remained the same since we started.  We also accept supporter or "ordinary" members at $10 a year.  If members wish to move into production work, they'd then pay the $30 - and we'd be delighted to train them up.

We try to maintain a consensual and encouraging approach to our work. 

What we can achieve depends entirely on members' interests, members' time and also equipment. 

C31 program planning and scheduling deadlines means that it's not really possible to rush an exciting and innovative idea into reality (although it is possible to some extent - through occasional "one-offs"). 

As a small group of volunteers, we simply can't offer an enormous amount of "manpower".  We've found a self-help d-i-y approach has helped us progressively establish our program offerings.

Our emphasis from the beginning has been to focus on our television program-making work - not committee structures. 

We maintain a very small "executive" committee, of course, but we did not wish to be like some community groups which spend a lot of time in power struggles seeking domination of the group. 

We need some "organisation" and "administration" at the centre.  We see this as the "hub" of a wheel with the really important activity taking place around the "rim" - ie with program-making.

We hold occasional meetings, usually for the Production Crew of a particular program or a more general "Production Meeting" covering everything we do.

We have recently been running a series of Training Days for our Production Crews covering different aspects of the work.

Of course, we also hold an annual general meeting (in the second half of each year), usually very brief before we move onto production matters.

How to join?  Through our email address - MetroCTV@yahoo.com.au

We'd send you a membership form and we'd love to have a chat with you to see how you can best enjoy some production activity.  If you just want to be a supporter member, you receive regular emails and a newsletter.

Our Executive Committee comprises: John Worcester (President and Secretary), Josephine Christensen (Treasurer) and John Campbell (Vice-President and Training Co-ordinator). 

Go to Lifetime:  www.metrotv.org.au/lifetime.php

Go to Country Cousins:  www.metrotv.org.au/country-c.php

Go to C31:  www.c31.org.au