Ventura Creative Economy Specialist, Eric Wallner, is interviewed by Polly Hoganson about his role with the city of Ventura regarding local economic development.
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Marlene T. Elias Discusses Her Experiences and Friendship With Mother Teresa
Annie Gabriel interviews (her mom), Marlene T. Elias, about her friendship with Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Marlene sang at Mother Teresa’s funeral, at the request of Mother Teresa.
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Annie Gabriel Interviews Jimmy Young About Biodegradable Bamboo Fiber Packaging
Annie Gabriel interviews Jimmy Young of McConnell’s Fine Ice Cream about environmentalism and sustainable packaging with biodegradable bamboo fiber pulp.
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Camille Harris Interviews City Corp
Camille Harris interviews members of City Corp, Ventura, California about their community service.
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Ventura Salvation Army, Sherry Cash and Bill Finley, Interviewed by Camille Harris
Ventura City Corp has a mission “to inspire and develop youth to become capable, productive, engaged civic leaders and to elevate the status of youth in their communities in the Central Coast.”
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Front Row at the 2010 Cappie Awards Celebration
Tonight marked Community Access Partners’ (CAPS) 7th annual ceremony honoring the best in community programming in Ventura, California. The celebration was hosted at the Ventura Adult & Continuing Education and Technology Development Center studios. The great food and camaraderie of the evening was punctuated by the spirited and entertaining awards presenters. Congratulations to all the nominees, and to the awardees who took home the CAPPIE AWARD trophies. And numerous accolades to the CAPS staff and volunteers who created the best-ever Cappies event!
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Where are the Earliest Interviews?
(Updated 1/28/25)
Our Ventura TV started in 2008. That’s when we began recording interviews for broadcast on Ventura cable channel 6 TV.
We started posting shows online in 2010.
However, there are numerous missing interviews from 2010. That’s because our earliest studio interviews were 30 minutes in length. At the time, YouTube only hosted 10-minute videos, so we couldn’t use that back then for our online archives.
Instead, our 30-minute interviews were hosted by a company called Blip TV. But they shut down in 2015 and all our earliest 30-minute archives disappeared with them, leaving only some shorts that were posted on YouTube, when YouTube was still an infant. So, those shorts turned out to be our oldest remaining archives, even though our earliest and primary productions were all interviews.
Later in 2010, YouTube increased upload lengths to 15 minutes. As a result, we reduced our studio interviews from 30 minutes to 15 minutes so we could use YouTube for hosting and that’s how our studio interview archives began in 2010.
(NOTE: in this context, ‘hosting’ means storing the video files. Although the same videos are ‘displayed’ on this website and other social media platforms, their actual home is on YouTube).
Later on, YouTube allowed much longer upload lengths, but we kept our studio interview length to 15 minutes.
In 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, the studio closed and we moved our productions online to Zoom videoconferencing and reduced these online interviews to 10 minutes.
In brief, Our Ventura TV online archives go back to 2010 because that’s when we began posting them online (via Blip TV) and that’s when YouTube began to allow 15-minute videos.
