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About The Rockville Channel
The Rockville Channel (cable channel 11), winner of numerous national and local awards, is recognized as a leader and model of excellence in government television programming. The Rockville Channel’s programming about Rockville city government is rich in content and production elements, with many people comparing it to large market television stations with more resources.
As a municipal government channel, The Rockville Channel focuses on providing Rockville residents with timely, accurate, important, and interesting information about their city government—both its policy-making and its operations. Staffed by television and journalism professionals, The Rockville Channel works to achieve high standards of providing a valuable information service to Rockville residents. And judging by awards and positive feedback, The Rockville Channel is successful in achieving those standards.
The Rockville Channel’s innovative live coverage of Mayor and Council and Planning Commission meetings includes graphics and video to help illustrate the matters being discussed and to help viewers easily follow the meeting. In competition with some of the largest cities in the country, The Rockville Channel has won first place national awards for its public meeting coverage.
In addition to its live meeting coverage, The Rockville Channel produces and airs news programs, interview programs, a Mayor and Council meeting highlights program, a police feature, a recreation and parks feature, live and taped city election programming, and in-depth features, all with the goal of helping Rockville residents keep an eye on their city government.
The Rockville Channel is available to cable television subscribers not only in Rockville, but throughout Montgomery County, as well. With its coverage of City facilities and events that are open to everyone, not just city residents, The Rockville Channel informs residents and non-residents about recreational and cultural opportunities that are available.
The Rockville Channel's programming also is “streamed” on the City’s Web site, www.rockvillemd.gov, so it is available to people who are not near their television, people who don’t have cable television service, and, quite literally, people all around the world. The nearly limitless reach of The Rockville Channel allows people around the area, around the country, and around the world to learn about a community and its government, both of which have been recognized as outstanding in a number of ways, making Rockville a highly desirable place to live and work.
Local government is the level of government that most directly affects people’s everyday lives, and The Rockville Channel helps connect the people and their government, supporting the tenet that an informed citizenry is essential to a representative form of government.