The University City Commission for Access and Local Original Programming (CALOP) is seeking applicants for an open grant round effective immediately.
Qualified individuals should submit applications that reflect CALOP's goal to provide programming that meets the arts, culture and history needs of University City and the region that would not otherwise be met by other media outlets. Interested parties are encouraged to review CALOP's goal and Five Year Plan and submit the application posted athttp://www.ucitymo.org/index.asp?NID=373.
All applications and video or multimedia examples of the applicant's work must be postmarked or delivered by 5pm, October 1, 2007, to:CALOPc/o Genise LayCity of University City6801 Delmar Boulevard, 1st FloorUniversity City, MO 63130
Selected applicants will be invited to make a short presentation to CALOP and answer questions. The Commission will then decide which applicants will be awarded a grant. For information, call (314) 505.8538.
The Higher Education Consortium's HEC-TV (Channel 26 in St. Louis County and parts of the City of St. Louis, Channel 13 in other parts of the city), premiers programs funded by CALOP in prime time Sundays and Thursdays as part of its “Liquid Light?broadcast. DVD copies of programs are made available for loan at the University City Library.
CALOP has given more than $1.8 million in grants to more than 200 producers in its 25 years of existence. CALOP is the only municipal sponsor of local programming in the nation, created in 1981 to insure that its cable franchisee would be able to cablecast local programming of interest to its citizens. Many of the projects funded by CALOP have won national and international awards of excellence.
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