INTERNSHIP PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Welcome to the Charter Communications’ CommuniTyVision 21 internship.  You have chosen to explore one of the special attributes of the CTV-21 training experience. This course is designed to provide participants with practical and principle knowledge of community television production and empower them to use equipment and facilities to create programming for CTV-21.  Different from custom training, which we also offer, the internship provides local residents, ages 16 and up, with community television production training in an 18 week 50 hour program.  The internship is unique in its approach, in that participants agree to commit to a minimum number of hours each week (training, producing or volunteering) in exchange for a training experience that is comprehensive, closely scheduled, and rewarding.  Interns who graduate are confident of their skills and often stay with CTV-21 as regular producers or on-call volunteers.    

The internship is open to anyone who resides within the franchise area (and those outside the area, on a space available basis) that would like to contribute to the advancement of local production at CTV-21.  A cross section of any intern group would display a variety of individuals in age, experience, and background.

The internship is held 3 times each year, sessions are held in January, May, and September.  20 interns are accepted into the program regardless of their level of experience.  The 50 hour commitment is a goal achievable based on the intern’s ability to contribute an average of 3 hours each week by producing and volunteering.   Potential interns must consider their availability before committing to the internship schedule as well as what their goal is for participating (career, school, etc.).  The Internship can be customized for students receiving educational credit based on the level of participation required by a school or other educational institution. 

The internship is designed to draw from the “group” experience to encourage participants to volunteer on productions created by each other, local residents and municipalities, in addition to the public affairs and mobile truck programming facilitated by CTV-21 staff.

  Upon completion of the program the Access Intern will receive a certificate of completion.