PCTV-plank

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* Mark Rauterkus will support PCTV 21 and be a large friend to the station in many ways.
* Mark Rauterkus will insure that funding for the station expands as needed.
* Just as Cambridge has three community access TV stations, Mark Rauterkus will work to expand with additional stations devoted to community access programming. 
* Community access TV shows for the city should be shown on suburban cable stations. And, shows done for suburban cable could and should be re-shown in the city. Pittsburgh should have many more chances to see what is going on in various municipalities. I will work to get a new community access TV cable station or more than one, so that it could be a highlights station that is a shared space among all the various cable access stations from Peters Township to Plum Boro.
* I'd work to get more programs onto the cable systems that were created in other parts of the world. I'd love to be able tune into four hours of CCTV, (TV from China), for example.
* PCTV producers and station workers should have full access to the mothballed, under-utilized TV station and studio on the 9th floor of the City-County Building on Grant Street. The station resources, edit suites, studio and facilities should be used, not left idle. And, those users could be PCTV as well as others in the community, such as high school students, CAPA, scouts and coaches. 
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Mark Rauterkus was part of the crew that produced the show, The Art of News. The show ran on PCTV and was born out of some activities from Ground Zero. 
Mark Rauterkus worked with PCTV staffers and other community leaders to in a time of crisis to produce a one-hour show in the spring of 2004, recorded at the National Aviary. At that time, the city had announced the total shut-down of all swimming pools, rec centers and the lunch program. The show dealed with those topics.
== Links ==
* PCTV
* PCTV booster site published by Mark Rauterkus