BRATTLEBORO — Brattleboro Community Television (BCTV) has won a national Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media in the category “Overall Excellence in P. E. or G. Access” for stations with budgets under $300,000, according to a news release.
“PEG” is short for Public, Education, Government, the types of programming produced at public access centers.
To enter, BCTV submitted a 20-minute video with excerpts from 15 programs produced by staff and volunteers in 2015, along with a description of BCTV's services and reach. BCTV staff will accept the award in Boston at a conference in August.
The significance of the award is that it recognizes the entire scope of work produced at BCTV over the year, not just one program.
The Hometown Media Awards category description states: “The Overall Excellence award recognizes access organizations for their overall operational activities and programming efforts for the year 2015."
This is the fifth year in a row that BCTV has won at least one Hometown Media Award.