Davis Media Access

Davis Media Access (DMA) is currently doing its annual funding appeal. It’s important that we raise this money each year, as it keeps KDRT 95.7 operational, and it helps support our local election and youth-media efforts.

DMA operates KDRT 95.7, Davis Community Television, and Educational Access Channel 17. DMA is a dba of Davis Community Television, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation and all donations are tax deductible.

Please join our current donors.

Events & Workshops

General Orientation

Wednesday, July 12, 2017 - 6:30pm

KDRT Highlights

Davisville, June 19, 2017: Dan Walters exits the Bee, keeps writing about California

If you follow California politics, then you’ve probably encountered the work of Dan Walters. For 33 years he wrote a column for the Sacramento Bee, writing about this state’s extensive cultural, demographic, economic and political changes since the 1960s and 1970s. He left the Bee this month, signed on as a columnist with the nonprofit journalism venture CALmatters, and joins us today to talk about our complex state, where change is constant and common ground can be very hard to find.

Divine Intervention Strikes - June 19

This week, Divine Intervention strikes to save us from that anticlimatic DMF hangover. Yes, the 7th annual Davis Music Fest (and KDRT's 2nd annual DMF live broadcast) was good fun for all—so much fun that it's hard to say goodbye. On top of that, unless you are as intrepid as our own photographista Eunah, you likely didn't catch every band on every stage.

Jazz After Dark June 20 2017

Bossa nova and jazz samba tonight!

Eliane Elias
Vince Guaraldi Trio
Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz
Sam Lazar
Dave Pike
Stan Getz & Luiz Bonfá
Kenny Burrell Octet
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Clark Terry & Chico O'Farrill
Boots Randolph
Ella Fitzgerald
Gerry Mulligan & Jane Duboc
Fabrizio Bosso with Strings
Jazz Nuances

Dead Wax its Final Vinyl show 6/15/17 - so sad

As George Harrison sang "All Things Must Pass" - Tonight is the final episode of DEAD WAX which was created and hosted by Jesse Deere. I had a hand in getting Jesse on the air but tonight, as he celebrates his 100th and final show, he taught me that music is more than just the joy of hearing it but discovering what makes it so. Dead Wax will leave a big hole in KDRT's line up. Jesse played several genres but the main focus was Americana and vinyl. He alsways had a theme to his show and I loved hearing his comments on why he selected the songs he played.

Jazz After Dark June 13 2017

Straight-ahead jazz, soul jazz, and sultry vocals tonight!

Billie Holiday
Erroll Garner
Herbie Mann
The Jimmy Giuffre 3
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Johnny Hodges
Jimmy Smith
Shirley Horn
Paquito d'Rivera
June Katz
Eva Cassidy
Lew Tabackin
Jimmy Rosenberg

Spring Funding Appeal is Under Way

DMA needs to raise $25,000, and we need our community's support.

In a time of widespread divisiveness, nothing is more important than community. How do we convene, connect, and communicate? How do we build bridges instead of walls?

For nearly 30 years, Davis Media Access (DMA) has been committed to building community though grassroots radio, local TV, and websites and archives. We bring people together from all walks of life to address issues and topics often ignored by mainstream media. We help people tell their stories and ensure their diverse voices get heard. This can be nothing short of transformative. We’ve seen young people find their passion, mid-career seekers develop new skills, musicians reach new audiences, and elected officials connect with constituents.

DMA is run by a small, skilled staff, along with a cadre of dedicated volunteers. As a well-managed non-profit with hundreds of active participants and supporters, DMA is responsible to you, our community—not to corporate profits. We provide real content, where you live. This is fundamental to our democracy, now more than ever before.

Please help be a part of keeping community media in Davis strong and whole. FRom March 15-Aprl 15, we're conducting our annual fund raising. Our many programs and services are made possible by your generosity – dollar by dollar, person by person.

Thank you for your support.

Summer Youth Media Workshops

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DMA’s summer workshops for youth aged 9-13 start next week. The first camp is full, but there are still some openings for others.

DMA has decades of experience teaching youth the basics of media production. These exciting classes teach production skills in areas such as camera and lighting, storyboarding and script development, sound, and stop-motion animation. DMA builds into all its curriculum critically needed media literacy training, and our workshops take place in the only HD studio in town. Participants get hands-on experience with quality equipment, work collaboratively, and share their work at the completion of the camp. Classes are taught by DMA staff and frequently assisted by students from past workshops.

Building community through media is what we do at Davis Media Access (DMA), and we make sure that starts with some of the younger members of our community. DMA has decades of experience teaching youth the basics of media production. These exciting classes teach production skills in areas such as camera and lighting, storyboarding and script development, sound, and stop-motion animation. DMA builds into all its curriculum critically needed media literacy training, and our workshops take place in the only HD studio in town. Participants get hands-on experience with quality equipment, work collaboratively, and share their work at the completion of the camp. Classes are taught by DMA staff and frequently assisted by students from past workshops.

Youth media opportunities abound at DMA

Originally published in The Davis Enterprise on May 5, 2017 In its 2015 study “Teens, Social Media & Technology Overview 2015,” the Pew Research Center found that 24 percent of teens go online “almost constantly,” facilitated by the widespread availability of smartphones. I’ve been around kids and technology since before smartphones were a thing, and I’m a mom of three teens. I’d be mighty surprised if those numbers haven’t climbed dramatically in the past two years.

Thank you to our 2016-17 Donors

Davis Media Access (DMA) is currently doing its spring 2017 fundraising appeal. To donate, davismedia.org/donate

DMA's donors and supporters make possible a great deal of the work we do. We appreciate you!

$500 & Above

DJUSD Graduations FAQ

How can I get a Commemorative DVD of a DJUSD HS Graduation? All five HS graduations will be recorded again this year by Davis Media Access. DVDs are available for sale here: https://djusd.davismedia.org/order-dvd

Will any of the graduations be broadcast live on DJUSD.tv Comcast Channel 17 or streamed live on the Internet? Not this year.

Thank You to our 2015-16 Donors

DMA's donors and supporters make possible a great deal of the work we do. We appreciate you!

$500 & Above

Craig & Darien Blomberg
Aimee Carroll Crawford w/ corporate match from PG&E
Tom Estes
Valerie Jones
Sunny Shine - In Honor Of & In Memory of All Tibetans, Everywhere
UU Church of Davis – congregational donation

$250-$499

A Note From the Director

Help Keep Media Local: DMA Needs Your Support

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Davis Media Access (DMA) has been described as “part of what makes Davis, Davis.” I believe that reflects how DMA is connected to–and supports—so many different aspects of our community that it’s become part of the fabric. Like any fabric, DMA is woven from many brightly hued and different threads, and we’re stronger together.

DMA is currently doing its annual funding appeal. It’s important that we raise this money each year, as it keeps KDRT 95.7 operational, and it helps support our local election and youth-media efforts. We’re more than halfway through May, and more than halfway to our goal of $25k, but that still leaves us with another $12k to raise over the next couple of weeks.

What is DMA? It’s three big projects (public access TV, educational access TV, and community radio) that together comprise a small staff, a large volunteer base, and a whole lot of learning and doing. DMA operates and staffs a media center and helps community members produce and distribute content across local television, radio, and the Internet. Using the framework and resources established nearly 27 years ago by the City of Davis, we’ve leveraged those to include a radio station, four open-source websites, video and audio streaming and archiving, and support for a tremendous variety of individuals and community organizations.

Looking Back, Planning Ahead

The life of an executive director is full of report writing, with perhaps none more important than an annual report, a document that tells the story of an organization, why it exists, and how it makes a difference. For the second year, we've taken what used to be a big written annual report and made a short video instead.

I constantly hear from people involved with one of our projects that they had no idea how many other things happen here at the media center. The video aims to give some insight into the whole organization by looking back on what we did in 2015. You can find it here, and I hope you’ll take a few minutes to check it out. Big thanks to Darrick Servis and Jeff Shaw for their production work, and Eunah Cho for the majority of the still images used.

DMA Welcomes New Board Members

DMA is delighted to welcome two new members to its board of directors, the volunteer body that provides governance for our non-profit.

In December, we seated Craig Blomberg for a two-year term. Craig is a longtime volunteer with KDRT, and has chaired the all-volunteer KDRT Management Team for the past several years. He spends hours each week updating the logs for the radio station, and selflessly devotes his time to making KDRT a great community resource. A registered nurse, Craig supervises case management at Sutter Davis Hospital. He lives in Davis with his wife, Darien.

In February, we seated Laura Grindstaff for a two-year term. Laura is a professor of Sociology at UC Davis and a faculty affiliate in Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, and Performance Studies. Her research and teaching focus on American media and popular culture and their role in reproducing gender, race, and class inequality. She publishes and lectures on a wide variety of topics ranging from cheerleading to reality television. From 2008-2015, she served as the faculty director of the Davis Feminist Film Festival, a grassroots festival of short films from around the world linking art to social justice issues. Prior to pursuing a career in academia, Grindstaff trained as a journalist at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) in her hometown of London, Ontario.

From the Vault

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Davis Media Access (DMA) is a community media center that has served Davis and environs for more than 25 years, amassing an archive of more than 10,000 locally produced videos. These programs tell the story of our area: our struggles, triumphs, concerns, and motivations. Most were either produced by, or feature, community members. In an era where broadcast outlets became fewer and increasingly homogenized, these programs helped tell the story of our community in a very real, and meaningful way, often covering what the Sacramento media market would not.

Kid Vid Workshops

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If you are interested in enrolling in one of our kids' camps for Summer 2016, don't delay too long! Some of our Summer camps fill up by March, and we know some parents try to coordinate to be in the same camp as friends.

Davis Media Access (DMA) is a dba of Davis Community Television, a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. DMA is a community media center serving Davis, CA and surrounding areas. Our mission is to enrich and strengthen the community by providing alternatives to commercial media for local voices, opinions and creative endeavors. Our major projects are KDRT 95.7 FM, Davis Community Television and DJUSD Channel 17.