Our Mission

CreaTV San Jose’s mission is to inspire, educate and connect San Jose communities, using media to foster civic engagement.

CreaTV San Jose is a non-profit, public benefit corporation serving the City of San Jose. The specific purposes of this corporation are:

1. To encourage and support the use of public and educational access channels (bandwidth) and resources among a wide range of individuals, organizations, and institutions within the City of San José.

2. To serve the community by providing support, management, production, and distribution of noncommercial, community-based media access programs.

3. To develop and promote the use of community media access resources and bandwidth in a non-discriminatory manner that promotes a free exchange of ideas and information.

4. To provide institutions, agencies, organizations, and individuals on a nondiscriminatory basis the necessary resources including studio and mobile equipment, video equipment and computers, and training to create and distribute noncommercial programming and information on public and educational access channels on the cable system.

5. To assure that no censorship over program content on the public and educational access channels exists, except as necessary to comply with the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, as amended, (or the corresponding provision of any future federal cable television or applicable telecommunications law) and other applicable Federal, state, or local law.

6. To solicit additional funds and resources for and serve as a vehicle for the funding of public and educational access activities in the City of San José.

7. To determine and conduct or support any and all other lawful things in furtherance of the foregoing charitable and educational purposes either manifest or latent.