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City of Tulsa Launches TGOVonline.Org Website with Live Video Streaming and Video On Demand
ARCHIVED PRESS RELEASE: Published 12-1-2009
Tulsa Government Access Television, TGOV, is now available
online in both live streaming and on demand at www.tgovonline.org. TGOV is a
collaboration of several City of Tulsa departments. The Tulsa City
Council teamed up with the Information Technology and
Communications departments to accomplish one of the Tulsa City
Council's Compendium of Needs' Citizen Engagement goals to bring
TGOV online to a wider audience.
Local government programming is accessible now to cable
television subscribers on Cox Communications Channel 24, and the
video streaming offers another option that allows people to view
TGOV programming from any personal computer, anywhere in the world.
For Tulsans, these two tools are used to promote transparency in
local government.
The City of Tulsa partnered with San Francisco-based Granicus,
Inc. to provide this online solution. The Granicus solution allows
the City to stream software to capture, manage, store and
distribute online video recordings.
"The beauty of the web streaming is that citizens can
immediately click on an agenda item of interest, watch the video
and view the supporting documentation all from one page," said
Council Communications Director Nathan Brown and director of the
web streaming project.
TGOV currently broadcasts Tulsa City Council meetings, Airport
Authority Meetings, Board of Adjustment meetings, and Planning
Commission meetings. These meetings will be archived and available
for a year. Special features highlighting the city government and
Tulsa will also be available to view on tgovonline.org, and more
TGOV programming will be added.
