{"id":894,"date":"2019-10-27T21:19:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T21:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/10\/27\/20191027a-labor-of-love-the-hurdles-of-public-access-television-in-connecticut\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:25:48","slug":"20191027a-labor-of-love-the-hurdles-of-public-access-television-in-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/10\/27\/20191027a-labor-of-love-the-hurdles-of-public-access-television-in-connecticut\/","title":{"rendered":"A Labor of Love: The Hurdles of Public Access Television in Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nestled on the edge of a suburban neighborhood, sits an old-barn-turned self-proclaimed \u201cCommunity Media Center.” Wallingford Public Access Association, or WPAA<\/a> for short, is one of many public access television stations in the state, but getting from the drafting board to on TV screens requires helping hands that aren\u2019t always available.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Susan Huizenga, the Executive Director of WPAA-TV, often works 10-hour days and is for most of the day, the only person at the station throughout the week. She\u2019s in charge of all scheduling, the stations\u2019 social media, overseeing studio shows, and just about anything else that\u2019s needed on a day to day basis.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m still here,” Huizenga laughs as the sun begins to set on a quiet Tuesday. \u201cMost of the time I\u2019m the only one here, but people will stop by with donations and what not or ask if they can do their own show at ‘X’ time.”<\/p>\n

Read the complete story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations that face public access television stations in Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects","category-qnn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}