Allen City Television
Time Warner Ch. 16 - Allen, Texas

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Mark Kaufmann
Video Producer

Scott Evans
Video Production Specialist

John Perry
Video Production Assistant

ACTV
Allen City Television
Allen City Hall
305 Century Parkway Allen, TX 75013
Phone: 214-509-4151
Fax: 214-509-4590

allentv@cityofallen.org


ACTV produces more than 100 programs a year. These programs include:
  • Live Allen City Council and Planning and Zoning Commission Meetings
  • AISD board meetings
  • Access Allen - monthly magazine show
  • ACTV News
  • Allen Philharmonic Symphony concerts
  • AEDC's Business Landscape
  • Special programs
  • Annual budget videos
  • Internal training videos
  • Public Service Announcements
  • Community event coverage (Allen USA)
  • City Council Candidates' Forum
  • State of the City
ACTV Allen City Television, part of the Public & Media Relations Office, is the City of Allen's government access cable channel. The goal of the channel is to provide Allen residents with comprehensive television coverage of important City meetings, special events and services.

 





ACTV Wins National Programming Award
for Overall Station Excellence

Read More HERE


As part of a research project designed to examine the role of government cable access channels in supplying news and information to their communities, Professor of Communication at Old Dominion University in Norfolk Virginia, Jeffrey P. Jones, Ph.D wrote an on-line journal about how government cable access programming serves communities in important ways beyond that provided by either local broadcast news stations or public television broadcasters.  The article can be viewed HERE.


ACTV Wins State Programming Awards!
Read More HERE

Since 2000 ACTV has won more than 70 local and national awards
including a first time Lone Star EMMY in 2006.

 

Visit the ACTV Schedule for air times. New episodes of Access Allen start airing every first weekend of the month.