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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.

Events & Workshops

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic all orientations and workshops at DMA will be rescheduled or conducted virtually. If you have already signed up we will reach out to you shortly with details.

General Orientation

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 - 7:00pm

KDRT Highlights

KDRT to Participate in Justice for Breonna National Community Radio Simultaneous Broadcast on August 13, 2020

On Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, community radio stations across the country will unite to commemorate the life of Breonna Taylor and the many female victims of American police brutality. Led by WXOX-FM in Loisville KY the link to Facebook event gives additional info. This date will mark the five-month anniversary of Breonna’s passing.

Jazz After Dark August 11 2020

Jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s tonight on Jazz After Dark.

Bennie Moten & the Kansas City Orchestra, Teddy Wilson, Earl Hines, Bing Crosby, Benny Goodman, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington, Don Byas Quartet, Jimmy McPartland's Hot Jazz Stars, Claude Williamson Trio, Gerry Mulligan & The Concert Jazz Band, Paul Desmond, Ximo Tebar, Bob Brookmeyer Small Band

Broadcasts 8 pm Tuesdays on KDRT-LP 95.7 FM in Davis, CA. Replays Monday 11 pm.

Live-streaming at https://kdrt.org/page/listen-now

COVID-19 Community Report Episode 31: West Sacramento City Councilmember Martha Guerrero - Aug 11th, 2020

Today's featured guest is West Sacramento City Councilmember Martha Guerrero, who was elected in 2018 after having previously served on the city’s Planning Commission. She is running for mayor in the current election cycle. We'll talk about the impacts of COVID-19 on West Sac, community resiliency, and economic recovery. I reached out to her because she’s been a leading source for information about West Sacramento on the COVID-19 Yolo Response Facebook Page.

Jazz After Dark August 04 2020

Coming up at 8 pm on Jazz After Dark!

Erroll Garner, Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, Billie Holliday with Eddie Heywood And His Orchestra, Georgie Auld and His Orchestra with Coleman Hawkins on sax, Kenny Drew Trio, Miles Davis (live performance of ‘Round Midnight), Ahmad Jamal, Gary Burton, Dal Richards & His Orchestra, Mulgrew Miller, Charlie Haden with Hank Jones, George Robert.

Broadcasts 8 pm Tuesdays on KDRT-LP 95.7 FM in Davis, CA. Replays Monday 11 pm.

COVID-19 Community Report Episode 30: Joseph Fletcher - Vibrant Community Role for the Veteran's Memorial Theatre

We’re doing a deep dive into local theatre arts today, and we’ll hear how one longtime community venue is working to survive and remain vital during the pandemic, and ready for whatever comes next. My guest today is Joseph Fletcher, who is nearing his one year anniversary as the Theatre Manager for the City of Davis at the Veterans Memorial Theatre. Joseph talks about a variety of projects that can be done during the pandemic including physical updates to the space and its equipment and incr

COVID-19 Community Report

Davis Media Access Executive Director Autumn Labbe-Renault will be hosting live shows Tuesdays 12-12:30pm and Fridays 12-12:30pm to help update the community about COVID-19. The shows will rebroadcast Tuesdays and Fridays at 5pm. This show will be a compendium of local resources with check-ins from local officials and other community leaders. As a companion piece for the show, link to the weekly updated blog posting of local services and information called the COVID-19 Community Resource List.

Hollywood at Home - Collaborative Video Fun!

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We'll be making a video together online! Using our smartphones and some elbow grease we will show Hollywood how to make movies during a lockdown! We'll start by generating inspiration for a collaborative idea that we can each shoot parts of at home using what we have available to us. We’ll learn to storyboard and script together and focus our ideas, recognizing that being apart might lead to some crazy funny things! Each person will then shoot portions of the script at home using the cameras built into their phone. We will share our segments using an online video editor called WeVideo (DMA has a classroom account), and have fun trying to piece together everyone’s different parts.

Reopening DMA

Hello DMA community,

It has been an incredibly strange three months of quarantine and closure. DMA’s staff and board have met regularly (and virtually) during this time. We want to let you know what we’ve been working on, and what reopening looks like for Davis Media Access (DMA) at this point in time.

Background

Since closing the facility on March 13, we’ve navigated a broad range of operational/technical/programmatic and administrative challenges during quarantine. We’ve helped some of our radio and TV volunteers as they’ve navigated producing from home--and commiserated with those who couldn’t. And we’ve adapted on other levels, working to fill budget gaps that are a byproduct of this time, while striving to respond to community requests for help with events that are now virtual. In short, though the building has been closed, the organization has not!

Through it all, we’ve kept abreast of the ever-changing laws and public health orders. In particular, we are following the guidelines for reopening developed by the John Hopkins Center for Public Health and Yolo County Public Health. We’ve spent the past couple of weeks developing a plan for reopening, just as cases in Yolo County and California began climbing again. Our policy and timeline has been developed by staff and was vetted and approved by the DMA board at its June meeting.

Thank you to our 2019-2020 Supporters

During this time of COVID-19, nonprofits are especially at risk, which makes our community support even more vital. As of June 23, we are about $9,000 away from our fundraising goal. Donations—whether by local businesses, donor-advised foundations, events or individuals—keep KDRT on the air, and help support DMA's work on local elections & youth media services. This list includes donors since July 1, 2019. DMA's donors and supporters make possible a great deal of the work we do. We appreciate you! And there is still time to donate before July 1.

$1,000 & Above

Craig & Darien Blomberg

Don & Julie Saylor

Jessica Kelly, via a workplace match from Cisco

$500-$999

Jesse Drew

Sam & Lori Hawk

Life in the Time of COVID-19: The Community Diary Project

Davis Media Access (DMA) invites you to help document the history we’re making during the COVID-19 pandemic by participating in a collaborative, virtual storytelling project here in Yolo County. Upload videos to https://davismedia.org/diary. Read on to learn more about the project.

Historians are as informed by first-person recollection and ephemera as they are by world events. Think about those who kept diaries during the flu of 1918, or the spread of smallpox through the Americas. What we experience as individuals adds to a greater understanding of the crisis we’re weathering as a whole. In this spirit, DMA is launching Life in the Time of COVID-19: Yolo County Community Diary as a collaborative storytelling project during this time of societal shift.

DMA Summer Workshops

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic all orientations and workshops at DMA have been paused or will be conducted virtually. Due to the way our youth camps function, with kids in close proximity and sharing lots of equipment, we have determined that we cannot safely offer our normal camps this summer. We realize that our summer offerings have been an important part of your summer plans, and we don't make the decision lightly. Full refunds have been made.

DMA is putting together plans for a variety of short format youth workshops that are appropriate for online/remote delivery. We will have more details on June 15th.

Connecting to What Matters

If this is your first visit to our website, welcome, and thanks for visiting.

Davis Media Access (DMA) is a non-profit community media & technology center currently celebrating its 31st year of serving Davis and environs. Elsewhere on this website you can read about what we do; the purpose of my message here is underscore why we do it. DMA’s community-centered work connects us to what matters: newsmakers, schools, families, youth, teachers, local elections, policy makers, community activists, neighborhoods, social justice activists, other non-profits, businesses, libraries, veterans, senior citizens, musicians, artists, and more.