PORT TOWNSEND – Representatives of Jefferson County’s public TV station hope to branch out, broadening electronic media coverage to include Web-streaming video, and possibly FM radio.
PTTV Producer’s Guild president Karen Nelson said she and other station representatives are wrapping up a long-range planning strategy.
The group anticipates having a production manager start work at the station in August.
Nelson said the station needs a production manager with high-tech skills.
“The production manager would help producers and nonprofits put out their messages to the community,” she said.
The station was fortunate to have Carl Nomura, retired Honeywell executive and Skookum board chairman in Port Townsend, to act in an advisory capacity on the plan, Nelson said.
Nomura is working with the station’s Public Education and Government advisory board, known as PEG.
PEG includes Mayor Mark Welch, a broadcasting instructor at Port Townsend High School who helped found the station some 20 years ago.
Nomura had been attending PEG meetings since January.
“His business expertise will help us figure out the best way to position ourselves for the best growth possible,” Nelson said.
“The strategy is how to position ourselves with the new regulations and technology, and how to best position ourselves in the community to stimulate interest in all the unique things that Port Townsend contributes to the Olympic Peninsula,” Nelson said.
Web streaming would take that message global, she said.
