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Final Session Wrap-Up and Push for Federal Action on Gun Control This Week on CT-N Capitol Report: Week in Review

Thursday, June 13, 2013, 2:21:07 PM

For Immediate Release

June 13, 2013

Contact: Meaghan MacDonald

(860) 246-1553, ext. 116

meaghan.macdonald@cga.ct.gov

Final Session Wrap-Up and Push for Federal Action on Gun Control

This Week on CT-N Capitol Report: Week in Review

Hartford, CT – Starting at 7 p.m. this Friday, Connecticut Network viewers will get an insider’s look at the end of the legislative session on this week’s episode of Capitol Report: Week in Review. Hear from Governor Malloy and leaders from both sides of the aisle as they spoke of the successes, failures, and roadblocks of the 2013 legislative session.

Capitol Report this week will also include coverage from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives where members of Congress pushed for federal action on gun control in the days leading up to the six-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook shootings. This week’s episode will also include highlights from the Connecticut Association of Boards of Education legislative wrap-up workshop where they discussed how new bills will affect the state’s schools and boards of education. Also this week, get updated on the state’s new health insurance exchange as the Health Care Cabinet hears the latest on the roll-out and implementation of Access Health CT. The implementation is federally mandated to occur in January of 2014 but the state has plans to begin the program in October.

Capitol Report: Week in Review summarizes the activity at the State Capitol during the week, using voice over and graphics to combine history, context, and next steps in the process with full-length excerpts from the week’s proceedings. The program premieres on CT-N every Friday night at 7:00 p.m., then rebroadcasts at Noon and 7:00 p.m. on Saturdays, 8:00 p.m. on Sundays, and 6:00 a.m. Monday mornings; check CT-N’s online program schedule for additional airtimes. Each episode runs between 30 and 60 minutes.

All episodes of Capitol Report are available online, in keeping with the network’s seamless integration of telecast and interactive content. Visit www.ct-n.com/CR for OnDemand and podcast downloads of each episode, annotated with synopses and links to related gavel-to-gavel coverage.

CT-N is available full-time on U-Verse channel 83 and on expanded basic cable statewide. Visit ct-n.com to find the channel location for the network in your community or to watch online. All Connecticut Network programming is closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Nominated for a 2012 Boston/New England Emmy Award, Winner of the national Sunshine Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Open Government Award from the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government, the Connecticut Network is the state’s source for complete and balanced television and webcast coverage of state government and public affairs. For more information, become a fan of CT-N on Facebook, follow the network at www.twitter.com/CTNetworkTV or visit CT-N’s website at www.ct-n.com.

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A Look Back at 2013 and A Look Ahead to What Is Next

Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 4:27:42 PM

For Immediate Release

June 12, 2013

Contact: Meaghan MacDonald

(860) 246-1553, ext. 116

meaghan.macdonald@cga.ct.gov

A Look Back at 2013 and A Look Ahead to What’s Next

Hartford, CT – Legislators have all headed back to their districts, sessional employees are cleaning out their desks and the Capitol campus seems unnaturally quiet for the first time in months. Another legislative session has come and gone. As the Connecticut Network crews take a deep breath after logging over 1,175 production hours since January, including a few sessions that lasted into the wee hours of the morning, the team looks back at another successful year covering the Connecticut General Assembly.

Only a few weeks before the start of session, the state was rocked with the horrific news out of Sandy Hook Elementary School. As the days and weeks followed, the state started to look for answers on how to prevent another such tragedy from ever happening again. Viewers tuned to CT-N for public hearings, task force appointments and meetings, news conferences and legislative session debates that eventually ended in the passage of stricter gun laws and measures aimed at creating safer schools. Through some last-minute technical heroics, the Connecticut Network provided a pool feed for both local and national media from the Newtown High School auditorium for the last of the four public hearings held by the Bipartisan Task Force on Gun Violence Prevention and Children’s Safety. Throughout the session, numerous cable news stations used CT-N’s coverage for national news stories on gun violence prevention, school safety and mental health.

The network was able to cover off-site events such as the Newtown High School public hearing with the addition of some new equipment. The LiveU Transmission Backpack allows CT-N to live-cover events on the go with just a camera and a cell-phone signal using mobile broadband internet. This technology makes regular live remotes possible for CT-N for the first time, at a fraction of the cost of a satellite truck and satellite time.

In addition to covering gun violence prevention and school safety, CT-N followed the rest of the General Assembly’s work as the legislature tackled other hot-button issues like minimum wage, undocumented immigrants and driver’s licenses, mixed martial arts, a state energy strategy and a new biennial budget. Even now, viewers can browse the video-on-demand library at CT-N.com to catch up on what they missed.

Throughout the session, CT-N crews were hard at work to bring state residents the network’s signature transparent look at state government. Teams of producers, production technicians and closed captioning technicians work closely together to cover each public hearing, legislative session and other events effectively and efficiently, making it look “easy” to the outside viewer in the process. How big a crew does it take to get just one CT-N show on air? The math might surprise you: for every event covered, there can be up to three production technicians operating cameras, switching graphics and mixing audio (remember, there are 151 individual microphones in the House Chamber alone, not including the Speaker’s!) At the same time, two closed-captioning technicians switch off every two hours and use voice-recognition-based software to “voice write” the program’s captions in real time, adding punctuation and other information critical to the Deaf community. A producer rounds out the team, watching the show, writing last-minute graphics for the production staff and following the legislative process to help inform the network’s future programming decisions. That’s up to six people for one show, and when proceedings stretch past the 8-hour or even 12-hour mark, that show can quickly become an “all hands on deck” event. Supporting these teams are a handful key support staff who update CT-N.com’s Video on Demand library, develop the daily playlist for those hours when CT-N is not live with an event, and circulate the schedule of upcoming programming. No wonder everyone’s tired by closing night!

Now that session is over, what’s next for the network? Plenty! Summer gives CT-N a chance to catch up with the legislative branch and other events of interest that we don’t have the resources to cover during session. The crews are looking forward to annual events such as the Mark Twain’s Teachers’ Workshops and Women’s Campaign School at Yale University, which started this week. Other shows will include the Connecticut’s Old State House’s “Conversation at Noon” monthly program, the Supreme Court’s Day Trips for Kids event, Parole Board hearings and monthly meetings with area Chambers of Commerce.

Like always, the next legislative session will be here before we know it. The 2014 legislative session, staring in February will coincide with the Connecticut Network’s 15^th anniversary. Throughout that whole year the network plans to celebrate the milestone with some surprises for the viewers so be sure to stay tuned!

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CT-N to Re-Air Bill Debates from 2013 Legislative Session

Wednesday, June 12, 2013, 1:55:57 PM

Hartford, CT – Like all other sessions before it, this legislative session was marked by different opinions, intense debates and compromise. The Connecticut Network is highlighting some key debates which culminated in passage of new laws for state residents...

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Final Days of the 2013 Legislative Session This Week on CT-N Capitol Report: Week in Review

Thursday, June 06, 2013, 5:40:08 PM

Hartford, CT – Starting at 7 p.m. this Friday, Connecticut Network viewers will get caught up on the race to sine die (the constitutional end of the legislative session) on this episode of Capitol Report: Week in Review...

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Last Full Week of Session and Still Waiting on a State Budget This Week on CT-N Capitol Report: Week in Review

Friday, May 31, 2013, 6:57:13 PM

Hartford, CT – Starting at 7 p.m. this Friday, Connecticut Network viewers will see highlights from the last full week of session on this episode of Capitol Report: Week in Review...

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Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants, Genetically-Modified Food and Mental Health This Week on CT-N Capitol Report: Week in Review

Friday, May 24, 2013, 7:30:58 PM

Hartford, CT – Starting at 7 p.m. this Friday, Connecticut Network viewers will see some key moments from what proved to be a marathon House of Representatives session on this episode of Capitol Report: Week in Review....

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Teenage Tanning Ban, Mattress Recycling Program and Armed School Security This Week on CT-N Capitol Report: Week in Review

Friday, May 17, 2013, 7:24:20 PM

Hartford, CT – Starting at 7 p.m. this Friday, Connecticut Network viewers will hear what’s been taking place at the State Capitol on this episode of Capitol Report: Week in Review..

2013_5-17_CapitolReport.pdf

A Rare Debate, Mixed Martial Arts and Minimum Wage This Week on CT-N Capitol Report: Week in Review

Friday, May 10, 2013, 12:26:15 AM

Hartford, CT – Starting at 7 p.m. this Friday, Connecticut Network viewers will learn more about the discussions taking place at the State Capitol on this episode of Capitol Report: Week in Review...

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