MADISON – WisconsinEye today announced it has reached agreement
with the Wisconsin Department of Administration to launch the WisconsinEye
channel on the BadgerNet video network serving education and government sites
throughout the state’s 72 counties.
WisconsinEye President & CEO Chris Long said planning and installation of the
required transmission equipment has already begun and WisconsinEye is expected
to be available to BadgerNet Converged Network (BCN) video sites by January 15,
2008.
“WisconsinEye is committed to expanding public access to our programming. We’re
delighted to be partnering with DOA to make the channel available to BadgerNet’s
long list of video clients across our state,” Long said.
The partnership with BadgerNet will bring WisconsinEye into over 255 schools and
54 college campuses across the state as well as organizations like the
Experimental Aircraft Association, the Milwaukee Public Museum, the Fallen
Timbers Environmental Center, and the Dane County Job Center.
“WisconsinEye has just the kind of public content that BadgerNet was created to
provide for schools and public organizations,” said state Chief Information
Officer Oskar Anderson. “Bringing WisconsinEye to more classrooms will help
students gain a better understanding of how state government works.”
BadgerNet was created by the State of Wisconsin to provide next generation
voice, data, and video services to state agencies, local governments, UW
campuses, technical colleges, private colleges and universities, public and
private K-12 schools, and libraries. A key goal of the BadgerNet project is to
enhance statewide educational systems for both children and adults.
WisconsinEye is a private, not-for-profit statewide public affairs network whose
mission is to provide independent, nonpartisan coverage of civic and community
life in Wisconsin, beginning with gavel-to-gavel, unedited coverage of the
actions of all three branches of state government in Madison.
The WisconsinEye channel, launched in May 2007, is available on digital cable at
Charter Channel 200 and Time Warner Channel 163, and on the Internet at
www.wiseye.org. A complete archive of the network’s programming is available
at the website.
A bipartisan and nonpartisan donor community of individuals, foundations,
organizations, and corporations is funding the network’s start-up operations.
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For more information, contact:
Chris Long, WisconsinEye
608-316-6850 x302 (office)
608-658-7901 (cell)
chris.long@wiseye.org
Linda Barth
Communications Director
Department of Administration
608-266-7362
linda.barth@wisconsin.gov
