CTV now available at Calabasas mobile home park





By Michael Picarella
pic@theacorn.com

CTV, the Calabasas cable access TV network on Channel 3, is now being offered to the residents of Calabasas Village Mobile Estates at 23777 Mulholland Highway in Calabasas. CTV offers its viewers live coverage of city council, city commissions and city board meetings, a benefit much needed in the mobile home park, according to park officials.


Calabasas Senior Media Specialist Arvin Petros said the city had previously been sending meeting VHS tapes to the mobile estates. The park’s in-house cable network would then air the recordings several days later.


"The residents were big on seeing the city council meetings because a lot of the issues have to do with them, such as issues regarding the shuttle buses and other things like that," Petros said.


Many of the mobile home residents aren’t easily able to get to Calabasas City Hall for council meetings, according to Calabasas Communications and Technology Commission Chair Michael Brockman. Presenting CTV to the park’s residents is important for that reason alone, he said.


In addition, senior citizens who are very active in the city make up much of the mobile home park, sources said. Park officials said the residents there would now feel more connected to the city with CTV service.


CTV is offered to those with cable.


"The cable company, as part of their responsibility in their relationship with the city, is to provide a channel for the government and/or for educational purposes," Brockman said. The city took serious action on the matter of wiring CTV into the mobile home park about six to nine months ago, he said.


The service began this week.


"The city didn’t make any kind of payments toward this at all," Brockman said. Tesco, the mobile home in-house cable network, and Charter, a cable company, funded the project.


The Calabasas Village Mobile Estates owners were also instrumental in the project, Brockman said.


"(The cable groups) volunteered to cooperate to do this. They didn’t have to do it. . . . I applaud both Charter and Tesco for their good public service in this case," Brockman said.



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