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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, October 14, 2020 - 7:00pm
General Orientation

Wednesday, November 4, 2020 - 7:00pm

KDRT Highlights

COVID-19 Community Report Episode 36: A Visit With UC Davis Chancellor Gary May - Sep 22nd, 2020

Today''s guest is UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May, who happens to be the most-requested interview from a poll of community members asked to suggest future guests. Some 24,000 UC Davis students are expected to be living here for the fall quarter, which starts Sept. 28, with the vast majority living in apartments and single-family homes in Davis and surrounding cities. What impact will this have on our COVID-19 numbers? How is the university managing its approach to COVID?

Celtic Songlines Episode 3: From Scotland, Hungary, Ireland and Beyond - Sep 15th, 2020

On this week's program: Phillip Boulding's music featuring his hammered dulcimer, Old Blind Dogs from Scotland, Dervish, An Dochas, Kate Rusby Fay Hield, from Hungary The Moon & The Nightspirit, Celtic super group The Gloaming, Borun's Ghost, Dublin's Lankum and Altan. Altan will be streaming their first live concert since March on September 25th via their facebook page. From the Sunday Tribune, Dublin "“The appeal of Altan centres on the fact that they see no differences or div

Jazz After Dark September 15 2020

Coming up tonight on Jazz After Dark! Count Basie, Erroll Garner, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, The Don Ellis Orchestra, Paul Desmond Quartet, Bob Brookmeyer Small Band, Ramsey Lewis, Houston Person, and Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen with Mulgrew Miller.

Jazz After Dark 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

Davisville, Sept. 14, 2020: Learn how psychedelic pedal steel and sweet harmonies helped mix country with rock ’n’ roll

So, what’s your opinion of the Eagles? The band, not the team. How about Emmylou Harris, the unusual pedal steel of the Flying Burrito Brothers, or the pop twang of the Beatles’ “Rocky Raccoon”?

Estelle California Shares Her Music and Vision on Listening Lyrics, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020

Estelle California is a singer/songwriter born in France. She started playing the piano when she was 5 and went on to study saxophone. Later, she was formally trained in opera. Her current life is a far cry from her childhood in France, where she suffered physical and mental abuse, and lived in an environment where she saw many people being discriminated against.

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.

Election Programming 2020

Davis Media Access (DMA) is gearing up to produce 27 candidate and campaign statements for local elections, and will air a variety of election-related programs now through Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. DMA is the only nonprofit community media and technology center serving Yolo County, and providing free local election coverage to candidates from school board through Congress has been part of our mission for more than 30 years. Diane Dedoshka, DMA’s Studio Manager and election producer, noted how different this year is from all other years.

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

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.

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.