American Democracy Television (ADTV) provides nonpartisan programming about representative democracy to Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV channels across the United States.[1]
General
ADTV programming is produced by The Alliance for Representative Democracy a partnership combining the resources of the National Conference of State Legislatures, Trust for Representative Democracy; the Center for Civic Education and the Center on Congress at Indiana University.[2] The project is funded by the U.S. Department of Education under the Education for Democracy Act approved by the U.S. Congress.[3] ADTV has free programming available to public-access television, educational-access television, government-access television channels nationwide, and currently distributes to nearly 500 cable TV stations.[4]
Selected topics
- How representative democracy works at the local, state and national levels
- That compromise and disagreement are an important part of our system of democracy
- How their ideas and special interests are represented
- Ways to make their voices heard[5]
In its first 2 years, ADTV spread to all 50 states and Washington, DC. The programming currently reaches over 12 million households on a regular basis and continues to educate the public about representative democracy, with its stated goal to challenge cynicism and reinvigorating the public's perception of its government.[6]
Awards
ADTV Flight 4 won the 2005 Gold Marcom Award.[7]
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