Manhattan neighborhood network: Community access television and the public sphere in the 1990s.

The article focuses on the screening of cable access television programming in informal, public settings to showcase the work of community television producers and to promote the use of Manhattan's public access channels. On August 22, 1996 a handful of independent video producers and public access television enthusiasts gathered at the Downtown Community Television center on Lafayette Street in New York City's Chinatown. The occasion: "An Evening of Community Video." That evening's program was the last of a four-part summer screening series that visited neighborhoods of the Lower East Side, Chelsea and Washington Heights. Throughout the year, Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN): the non-profit organization responsible for administering public access television channels in the borough of Manhattan; screens cable access television programming in informal, public settings to showcase the work of community television producers and to promote the use of Manhattan's public access channels. The summer series featured programming made possible by MNN's Individual Production and Revolving Fund Grants.