Davis Media Access

This Fall season (as we celebrate our broadcast birthday AND a new antenna), we continue our training of a vibrant new group of volunteers and are developing a new local public affairs programming department. We ask you to help support these efforts and the station by helping us raise $5000. Keep our grassroots growing stronger and deeper within the community - all donation levels are greatly appreciated.

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

Events & Workshops

DCTV Website: Reservations & Resources Training

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 - 7:00pm
PSA Day 2018

Wednesday, February 7, 2018 - 10:00am

KDRT Highlights

Turn Us On! Support KDRT’s Fall FUNdraiser, Oct. 22-29!

The new antenna’s up and we want to hear from you!

KDRT Live Broadcast: Davis Fire Relief Benefit

KDRT is broadcasting live from the Davis Fire Relief Benefit today, Sunday, October 22nd, featuring live music from the West Nile Ramblers, the Smoke Shovelers, Sometimes Warren, and the Byron Colborn Trio. Please help our North Coast Neighbors. Turn us on and join us at Sudwerk's this afternoon til 4 PM. Your entry ticket is simply a gift card from a store that sells clothing or food. Proceeds from today's event go to fire victims in Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, and Lake Counties.

Jazz After Dark October 10 2017

Swing, boogie, and blues tonight on Jazz After Dark!

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson, Dinah Washington, Lou Donaldson, Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, Cannonball Adderley, Barney Bigard-Claude Luter, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra, Billie Poole, Paul Gonsalves/Earl Hines, Bobby Hackett Sextet and more!

Our New Antenna Is Up - Your Feedback From Quick Survey Is Requested

News flash - our new antenna is up and running, and now we ask you to let us know how we are sounding. This short survey will take less than a minute and will give us valuable information about how well the signal is carrying throughout Davis.

We are very grateful to all the listeners who helped us last year with our first Listener Survey where about 40% reported fair to poor or variable signal reception. We expect to see an improvement this time around now that the new and improved antenna has been installed, so please take a moment to let us know.

Jazz After Dark October 17 2017

Spanning the decades of jazz tonight, from 1950 to 2017. Virtuoso instrumentals and lovely vocals, coming up on Jazz After Dark. 8 pm, KDRT-LP in Davis CA, live-streaming and available by podcast everywhere. Featuring Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald, Herb Ellis & Stuff Smith, Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Cornell Dupree, Ximo Tebar, Catherine Russell, Ahmad Jamal, Herb Alpert & Hugh Masekela and more!

Davis Fire Relief Benefit: Helping our North Coast Neighbors

Fire relief fundraiser planned in Davis Oct. 22

If you’ve been wondering where or how to donate to fire victims, look no further: a group of local elected officials and community organizers in Davis has come together to mount a response to the unprecedented wildfires that devastated Sonoma, Napa, Lake, and Mendocino counties last week.

Spearheaded by Davis City Councilmember Lucas Frerichs, the group has organized a Fire Relief Benefit, to be held Sunday, Oct. 22 from noon to 4 p.m. at Sudwerk Brewing Company, 2001 Second Street in Davis.

Thank You to Our 2017-18 Donors

This money keeps KDRT on the air this year, and supports youth media efforts. We fundraise all year, but conduct our major drive during the spring months.

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

$500 & Above

Sharon Hale & Dawn Student

$250-$499

Karen Vikstrom

$100-$249

Nik Joshi
Autumn Labbe-Renault
Benjamin Millam
Marian Stephenson

DJUSD Production Internships- Application Deadline September 19!

Davis Media Access (DMA) has openings for video production internships.

The internship is available to DJUSD students and provides hands-on experience and exposure to many aspects of video production. During the four-month, non-paid internship, participants focus on media coverage of assigned DJUSD events, namely athletic games, music concerts and drama productions.

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) successfully completed its spring 2017 fundraising appeal. This money keeps KDRT on the air this year, and supports youth media efforts. We fundraise all year, but conduct our major drive during the spring months.

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

$500 & Above

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.

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.

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.