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Programs on Our Channels

Our programming is both locally originated and imported from other communities. Here is a list of programs produced at the Media Center or in nearby communities. To request updates to this page, please email us.

Abilities United
Alive and Free Youth Media
American Songwriter
Art for Well Beings
The Bay Show
Ask "Dr." Business
Change Makers
Circulo Cultural
A Common Song
Cooking w/Your Loved Ones
The Painting Gourmet
Digiquest
Everyone's Yoga
Faces of Local Heroes
Fredrico's Kitchen
Future Talk
Gardening Rhythms
God's Woman
Grace Lutheran Church

Hale I Ho'Omana
Heritage
High Five Fitness
Humanist Community Forum
Intern Projects
In The Sisterhood
Jook Joint with EC Scott
Law Talk
Local Focus
Make The Call
Media Edge
MC Studio Class
MC Studio Session
Michael Killen on Creativity
Mom and Pop Business
Neal's Place
The Next Step
Other Voices
Palo Alto PTA Parent Education
PAUSD Board Meetings

Peninsula Backstage
PPJC Presents
Pushpanjali
Scary Cow Films
Seniors Alive
She TV
Spirit Talk with Jean
The Stephanie Herman Show
Swara Lahari
Talk Art
Talking with Henrietta
The Theatre Factory
Thriving Now!
Toastmasters Bay to Bay
Toastmaster Time
Types
UNA Form Presents
Veterans Helping Veterans
Youth Advisory Council

Abilities United Presents:
Community Connections

A program dedicated to those individuals living with a developmental or physical challenge. Abilities United is a not-for-profit organization which champions people with developmental and physical challenges and provides the training, education and support they need to lead the lives they choose.

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Online Episodes
Abilities United Website

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American Songwriter

American Songwriter Spotlights emerging Bay Area songwriters and bands. Each episode features a single band or performer playing their own original works. Host Becky Sanders interviews the performers between songs.

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Online Episodes

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Art for Well Beings

Art For Well Beings is a delightful art variety show—visual art, human art—art, art and more art. Judy Gittlesohn hosts. The show is presented with 3 main sections peppered with artistic interludes: About a Painting, A Very Well Being and Paint and Response. You'll see painting demonstrations, artists and more.

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Art for Well Beings Website (with online episodes)
AFWB on Facebook!

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The Bay Show

The premiere television show showcasing aspiring hip-hop artists along with interviews and special guest performances by popular Bay Area artists.

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The Bayshow Website

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Ask "Dr." Business

Roy J. Blitzer hosts this live show on how to make your work life more satisfying. He and his guest field live phone calls from the TV audience, dispensing advice on career management and interpersonal issues.

Ask "Dr" Business is cablecast LIVE on the third Thursday of the month, at 8pm on Channel 30. Watch then and call in with your questions!

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Change Makers

An interview show, featuring local people with interesting stories to tell. The producer/host is Gopi Kallayil, who has twice been a semi-finalist at the Toastmasters International World Championship of Public Speaking.

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Online Episodes

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Circulo Cultural

Promoting the arts and culture within the Hispanic community, Circulo Cultural presents a series of interviews, research and field productions that inform and invite the public to become active on the arts community. En Español.

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Circulo Cultural Website
Online Episodes

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A Common Song - Poetry for Everyone

Local poets share their inspiration and poetry.

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Cooking With Your Loved Ones

A fun and unique TV show for for kids and their parents. We introduce healthy and easy to make foods from all over the world. Watch as we teach international cooking techniques to kids along with you at home!

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Online Episodes

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Darlene Carman
The Painting Gourmet

Artist Darlene Carman provides a variety of creative art activities for children and adults.

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The Painting Gourmet Website

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Digiquest

Youth-produced shows from the Media Center's Summer Video Production Camps.

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Find out more about the Media Center's Digiquest Summer Camps

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Everyone's Yoga

Join Yoga instructor Andrea Throndson in a beginning-to-intermediate yoga class. Experience the many physical and mental joys that a yoga practice can bring.

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Online Episodes

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Faces of Local Heroes

Six persons are chosen each year for this Media Center award, based on their outstanding contributions the community. See these riveting profile shows.

Show Times (Active Spring and Summer)
Online Episodes

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Fredrico's Kitchen

Fredrico's Kitchen: the cooking show that teaches you how to make great meals from items you may already have at home.

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Future Talk

Future Talk examines the global impact of technology, both for good and for bad, and tries to see where the new technology is leading us.With leading edge guests, videos and reports from the field, we try to examine scientific developments from every possible angle and analyze both the short and long term effects on our lives.

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Online Episodes
Website

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Gardening Rhythms

Gardening Rhythms is a comprehensive urban gardening show (for any skill level gardener) embracing the wisdom of traditional farming systems, modern scientific and technological knowledge. The show has a lot of eye-candy. The Producer and Host of Gardening Rhythms career in gardening began at the tender age of 10 when he started a professional arborist business.

His father, who holds a graduate degree in Agriculture from OSU, taught him how to prune trees using loppers and a chain saw at the age of 10. At 13, he expanded into beekeeping. And his entrepreneurial pursuits continued through college with full landscaping design and installation of residential gardens.

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Website

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God's Woman

Reverend Mary Frazier tackles issues affecting the modern Christian.

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Grace Lutheran Church

We believe that, in Holy Communion, Jesus Christ is truly present in the breaking of bread andsharing of cup. Watch us at the Lord's Table. Persons, including children,who normally commune in their own fellowship, are welcome to share Holy Communion with us as well.

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Hale I Ho'Omana

Hawaiian themed Praise and Music show.

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Online Episodes

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Humanist Community Forum

The Humanist Community Forum is held every Sunday morning from 11am until noon at the Student Center in the middle of Palo Alto High School (on the corner of El Camino Real and Embarcadero Road in Palo Alto). A lunch is served immediately after the Forum. The Forum features a wide variety of speakers speaking on a wide variety of interesting topics. The Humanist Community believes in compassion, fairness, happiness, reason, and science.

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Online Episodes

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Heritage

Heritage focuses on a different aspects of Palo Alto's history. It is produced by The Palo Alto Historical Association, which was established in 1948 to preserve materials pertaining to the history and heritage of Palo Alto, and to inform the public about Palo Alto's history through programs, exhibits, publications, and its newsletter.

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Palo Alto Historical Association's Website

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High Five Fitness

High Five Fitness is a fun and interactive motivational fitness TV show. We encourage our viewers to get up off the couch and get moving with us. We cover a wide range of fitness styles and techniques, including boot camp, yoga, body weight exercise and weight training.

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High Five Fitness on Facebook

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Intern Projects

Features projects by Interns at the Media Center.

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Online Episodes

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In The Sisterhood

In the Sisterhood explores what is on women's minds and in their hearts with a variety of topics designed to empower women. The show is intriguing, intelligent, engaging, informative, at times irreverent, spiced with some levity, but never boring!

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Online Episodes

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Jook Joint
with EC Scott

Each week EC Scott takes us on a journey through the blues world with her own performances, guest appearances and clips from some of the great blues houses.

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Online Episodes

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Michael Killen on Creativity

Produced by Charlie Class, hosted by Michael Killen. The show enables viewers to discover how artists and business persons of all types create the new. Michael Killen asks them how they developed from childhood to do what they do, how they think, what are they creating now, and where are they going in the future.

Michael Killen is an artist and founder of a research and publishing company: Killen and Associates, Inc.

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Online Episodes

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Law Talk

Law Talk brings the understanding of today's law into your living room. We provide comprehensive overviews of the events of the day into everyday terms. Controversial issues involving legal matters are put in context of the law and the constitution.

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Local Focus

Local Focus is a series of short (10 minute) videos which profiles an event, person or organization in the Media Center's service area. This series is distributed on our website and on the Media Center TV channels.

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Online Episodes

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Make The Call

The East Palo Alto Police Department produces this show asking the community to help in solving cold cases.

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Online Episodes

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Media Edge

A weekly two hour show which aggregates news and information and issues affecting our nation and our world. Produced by We the Media, an all-volunteer nonprofit group dedicated to bringing independent progressive video programming to community cable access channels.

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Online Episodes

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Media Center
Studio Class

YOU could be producing programs shown on our channels! Just take our popular Studio TV production class, and we'll train you in everything needed to produce a TV show--Cameras, Director, Switcher, Audio, Graphics, even on-camera talent! Our 5-night studio TV class is presented every month, and at the end the class a 1/2 hour TV show is produced. The MC Studio Class program shows the class project of the most recent TV Studio Production class. Check it out and sign up for the next class!

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Online Episodes

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Media Center
Studio Session

This series showcases local musicians in the coverage area of the Midpeninsula Community Media Center. For more information on appearing on this show, send email to info@midpenmedia.org

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Online Episodes

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Mom and Pop Business

East Palo Alto resident David Tschang shares the importance of small businesses to the community.

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Article on Mom & Pop Business

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Neal's Place

Blues master Kenny Neal hosts this half hour series of amazing blues performances with a different guest each week.

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Online Episodes

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The Next Step

"The Next Step: Showcasing the art, music, literature, spirituality and politics of the evolving new consciousness" The Next Step is hosted by Daniel Kottke, and features an hour-long panel discussion on a topic of the day.

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Other Voices

"Other Voices" is produced by Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, the local area's leading grassroots activist organization. "Other Voices" is a monthly interview program featuring experts, analysts and activists on a wide range of issue areas.

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Online Episodes

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Palo Alto PTA Parent Education

These parent education programs, in collaboration with community partners, are designed to provide parenting tools to address the social, emotional, and physical health of our youth, and provide opportunities for parents and students to share experiences and information.

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Online Episodes

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PAUSD Board Meetings

Gavel to gavel, live coverage of the bi-weekly school board meetings for PAUSD.

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Archived Meetings

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Peninsula Backstage

There's no shortage of live theatre on the San Francisco Peninsula. Plays, musicals, and opera. Modern and classical. Professional and amateur. Peninsula Backstage brings in the people behind upcoming shows to talk about them. Tune in and find out what's going on in our world of theatre.

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Online Episodes

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Peninsula Peace & Justice Center Presents

"PPJC Presents" is produced by Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, the local area's leading grassroots activist organization. The series features videos from PPJC's extensive speaker series, with well-known speakers such as Amy Goodman, Noam Chomsky, and Robert Fisk.

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Online Episodes

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Pushpanjali

Classical Indian dance.

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Online Episodes

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Scary Cow Films

Scary Cow is a 200-member cooperative, based in San Francisco. Members pool resources and know-how to make short independent films, with either no budget or with money awarded from a prior film. Films are made every 4 months, and the final product is shown on a big screen film festival in San Francisco. Money is awarded to films, with prizes going toward the making of future films. Many Scary Cow films are shot in part at the Media Center.

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Online Episodes
Scary Cow Website

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Seniors Alive (formerly Senior New Ways)

This show is associated with Senior New Ways, a multi-faith, non-profit organization providing programs, activities, resource referral, consultation, and support to older persons and their adult children and caregivers. We promote the wholeness - physical, mental, spiritual and social well being - of older adults in northern and central California. We are unique in providing a quality-tested array of innovative programs.

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Senior New Ways Website

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She TV

Hosted by life coach Vicci Smith. Tune in as we learn about achieving dreams, living well and managing everyday life!

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She TV Website

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Spirit Talk with Jean

Jean Ramaciotti hosts this monthly half hour show with guests discussing many forms of spirituality.

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The Stephanie Herman Show

Stephanie Herman, a former principle ballerina, takes us on a journey of Bay Area culture, often involving dance routines choreographed and performed by Stephanie herself. Stephanie also takes us around the peninsula, exploring fine hotels, restaurants and wineries.

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A Performance from "Agon"
Interview at La Belle Day Spa
Delaying Parkinson's Disease

Hot Moms/Dads, Max Bran Beat Band
Enjoying Napa
Enrich, Enhance, Enjoy

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Swara Lahari

Weekly program of Indian classical music with a guest performer each episode.

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Online Episodes

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Thriving Now!

Join Dr. David Kamnitzer and host Christine Healy as they help us access our ability to THRIVE instead of merely survive in today's challenging reality.

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Davd Kamnitzer's Blog

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Talk Art

Let's Talk Art! Sally Rayn hosts an interview show featuring local artists.

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Online Episodes

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Talking with Henrietta

Henrietta Burroughs, a local journalist, hosts this twice-a-month public affairs program, frequently focused on East Palo Alto issues.

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Online Episodes

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The Theatre Factory

Local theater productions are invited into the Media Center Studios to perform excerpts of upcoming and current productions. Theaters and production companies are profiled using in-studio interviews, and externally shot segments provide insights into the behind-the-scene processes that make a local production come to life.

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Online Episodes

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Toastmasters Bay to Bay

The 200 clubs of Toastmasters' District 4 spans the San Francisco peninsula down to Monterey. Toastmasters Bay to Bay is produced by District 4 Toastmasters as a platform for local Toastmasters to practice their public speaking skills on TV, and also lets non-Toastmaster members know what's involved in a Toastmasters meeting. Are you a Toastmaster? Find out what's happening in District 4. Not a Toastmaster? Tune in and see what it's all about!

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Online Episodes
Website of Toastmasters District 4

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Toastmaster Time

Toastmasters' District 57 stretches from Northern Coastal Californa down through the San Franciso East Bay, as far south as Fremont. Toastmaster Time is a long-running series produced by District 57 members. The show offers members the opportunity to learn televison skills, while showcasing the talents of excellent speakers.

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Online Episodes
Website of Toastmasters District 57

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Types

Personality researchers David and Katherine Fauvre guide viewers in a monthly exploration of the Enneagram, a psycho-spiritual personality system. Discover your type!!

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Online Episodes
Enneagram Exploration Website

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UNA Forum Presents

UNA Forum Presents highlights the documentary films and filmmakers whose films are being screened at two local film festivals: SFIFF (San Francisco International Film Festival) and UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival). This show has been on-air at the Media Center since 1998 and is hosted by Jasmina Bojic, UNAFF Founder and Festival Director (unaff.org), and produced twice a year (April / October) by Jasmina Bojic and Cathy Keys.

Show Times (active in April and October)
Website of the United Nations Association Film Festival

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Veterans Helping Veterans

This long running series is Produced by the Veterans Employment Committee of San Mateo County.

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Online Episodes
Website of Veterans Employment Committee of San Mateo County

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Youth Advisory Council

The Media Center's Youth Team produces everything from public affairs to game shows as they perfect their video production chops. All from a youth perspective.

Learn More About the Media Center's Youth Advisory Council

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Online Episodes

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