The Boomer Nation Live... Internet TV     Jeffrey Stevens Hosts This Interactive Issues Forum and interview/talk Program. Designed by CPB so the  viewers can participate and share their opinions and join in creating the solutions todays issues demand if the world we'll be leaving our children will have any quality of life for them to enjoy. 
    As CEO of Community Public Broadcasting Stevens and his associates Leon Forrest, Alan Campbell and Joel Gallob have spent over a decade designing and building the equipment, technical resources and support system services and deliver state of the art communication technologies that will change the future for rural communities across Oregon and the nation. The CPB Internet based Multi-Media broadband network will change the economic landscape and provide opportunities that will benefit everything from the cost of government, tools and resources available in local schools to business development and the delivery of health care services for residents of all ages. From their cyber studios in Rockaway Beach, Lincoln City, and Florence together they operate full service Audio Recording/Telev ision Production and Broadcast studios providing local government, education and community programming never available outside large metropolitan areas. When not creating new ways to provide their resources to more rural communities and opening new service areas Stevens likes to dream up new applications for these technologies. Starting with the management of chronic pain and post traumatic stress patients Steven's is constantly searching out medical professionals that will partner in the field tests for  the equipment and procedures so this part of the industry can start helping patients and developing the employment base that has been part of Steven's vision for the last 30 years.
    With the launch of "The Boomer Nation.Org Website and the Boomer Nation TV, CPB's  Interactive Online Television channel this multi talented group of Boomer Generation rockers is providing the first multi-media network dedicated  to giving the new senior citizens a n national forum and resource to find their common goals and organize as they did in the 60's.
     Our parents created AARP to be their voice in Washington and together they formed the most powerful voting group in the history of the country. My grandfather loved the way the mention of AARP scared the hell out of our Senators and Congressmen and put their future employment in question unless they voted with their best interest in mind. It ended an era of senior poverty where cat food often was the only meal of the day and supplemented the retirement savings that Wall Steet was just learning to steal and turn into the art they've mastered today. 
     There's over 80 million of us and over half of us lost our retirement savings in the Wall Street created crash that made the brokerage houses and banks hundreds of billions with there latest unregulated investment strategy,
setting up a business to fail. American capitalism at it's finest. "I was really getting sick of seeing men and women over 65 bagging groceries or slinging cheese burgers just to service when they should be enjoying those last few years with the grand kids finishing our legacy we started in those great years between the Beetles first album and the Yuppies selling out." recalls Steven's.
     Every institution and safe guard had failed us and with the politicians and Wall Street now targeting that last safety  we call social security,(they call entitlements even though we gave about 10% of every paycheck to cover the cost and invest in the common good). we knew we had to act and do something before it was to late.
    We didn't have the money or power the super rich friends of George W Bush and Chenney had, but we had the Internet and the engineering talent to build this television network with the money left over each month from those damn entitlement checks they wanted to stop writing so bad. They might have to start another war if they can't get their way soon. So hear we are today, the first programs being webcast on our humble channel at
http://www.livestream.com/theboomernation .
    We've just about finished our 3rd Multi-Media website to anchor the Interactive Internet Television network my associates have made reality. For over 10 years our brilliant head of production Alan Campbell, has managed our south coast broadcast network and taken our original business model and created our most productive territory exceeding the best estimates by at least 1000%. Alan has succeeded where others with much greater capital and unlimited resources have failed and without selling even one commercial minute of advertising or compromising our commercial free government, education and community cable TV channel on the south Oregon coast. Alan faith in the vision I have for the future of our network has never wavered. When others moved on in search of new fortunes Alan worked on the foundation that would become our world class cyber studio. The computer based television production center that would become the standard used by our peers as a universal reference  for excellence and quality in a new industry we created together with a new vision that is now truly shared. Our team was growing stronger and the applications we began to develop for the primary technologies just kept finding new levels that would benefit a growing new audience we discovered by accident and now breaths new life into the art and music we create a new chapter opens where I thought it would close.
    Our lead writer and managing editor Joel Gallob joins our family of born again hippy types and charts the first direction for our news investigations and reports that will soon become our standard and establish a new multi-media information resource for our Boomer Generation. An unrestricted, unedited selection of our individual and jointly submitted works that in the formative 1960's during  our coming of age was published the pages of Rolling Stone, Playboy, High Times and Whole Earth Catalogue the trusted media of their time and the model we use today for the 21st century high tech versions we launch with the printing tools of our past with the Internet based sound and video we use to deliver the news today.
    The following accounting of our early history and education that began with our introduction to the "good ol boy" system of small town corruption. The one thing we never gave a consideration or thought and never spent one second of effort to prepare or protect our equipment our company, our bodies or minds. We just walked blindly into their world expecting to be welcomed for doing a job we all loved in a profession with modern heroes that could hold a president accountable or use words to destroy corporations that sold poison or polluted our children's heritage, what ever the transgression or crime a news paper with great writer was all that was needed to deliver justice.


 Some of the crew had become disabled so they didn't expect  us to work as hard as we did or be as good as we were delivering a professional broadcast that could have been produced in Hollywood or New York by much bigger networks with impressive looking trucks and cameras the size of Volkswagon but the finished programs were equal in every measure which caught them so off guard that from that moment on the cameras got everyone uptight..Especially the short fat Bishop guy who claimed to own all the radios in town. He wasn't very impressive looking and laughed when yelled spraying spit all over himself as he screamed he  ran the show but when the cameras started rolling recording how wet and stupid he looked, he turn very bright red and for the first time we noticed how easy it was to get this short fat Bishop guy ,   really dangerously super pissed off..  
    We started on the cable systems controlled by the first generation of crooks just beginning to practice the art of high priced fraud. And all made legal with the best government money, hookers and boozy bribes could buy. We started with local city council and county commission meetings which they said was insane because no one would watch because nobody cared. A young Senator named When taught us that sunlight was the best way to keep our government clean so we expanded our coverage and became one of the most popular channels in every area we served. Boy did that piss of the crooked politicians who for the first time had to deal with a public that could see the bull shit they were feeding them for the first time in the history of the state.
     Everyone was having a hell of a lot of fun. For the first time in memory the disabled members of our staff felt like they were making a contribution to our communities. Payback for the disability checks with work that was really important and not just anyone could do. But the good old boys were really, really pissed by now and Oregon public meeting law wouldn't let them do their dirty business without the cameras running.
     They tried everything, meeting after work for drinks at the bar but before they could say ordinance or room tax the cameras were recording. They tried secret lunches but if more than three showed up they had to make the time and location public knowledge. Then they really, really, really got pissed because they all looked like pigs doing their council stuff with mouths full and group on their chins and then the public found out the food bill was over three grand a month. Wow we not only had the crookedness council but the stupidest, paying $3000 a month to buy nine lunches one time a week. But hey it also meant that our city made the most expensive deli sandwiches on the west coast if not the western hemisphere. Boy that meant we had the most special safe in the country some genius suggested they go back to the regular time and location for their council meetings. But for some reason the lunch bill was still being charged and paid by the city until some citizen watching our broadcast noticed it was way past lunch time and no one was eating sandwiches that late anyway. Boy they really hated our cameras now even if we put their parades and chamber of commerce events on TV for all the tourists to see. I think they actually tried to be friends because they stated doing nice things like free break jobs on the staff cars when we were asleep and didn't need to drive. They sent repairmen to fix our gas fireplaces when we didn't even know they were broken and fixed our home wiring and smoke detectors all for free. But they never really quit being pissed of at our cameras and some time the guy that ran the town (some folks said) would get really, really on and on you know, really pissed of at the cameras because the city attorney would point out something he did by accident that was very very mileage and expensive but thanks to our camera everybody saw it in time so no one would forget and the boss,, who's face was really, really red for some reason, could write a check after the council adjourned. Not every town was like Newport or Rockaway Beach, these towns are special they just seem to always elect people that hate our cameras. We found out it wasn't just our cameras but they hated every camera we installed, even when the city of Rockaway bought their own camera. Why one day the mayor told a staff person to point the camera at someone else and the damn thing just fell into a million very tiny pieces. Rockaway had the worst luck with cameras. They didn't stop breaking until my disability wouldn't let me walk for about a year and the council couldn't afford to hire a replacement. The council was very sad now. They had finally fired the book keeper and that stopped the cameras from breaking but they still couldn't afford to hire some one. It seems some one had misplaced a bunch of the city's money. A lot of money, enough money to pay the new city managers salary for about 8 years and since he made over 90 grand a year they needed to find the money in a hurry or at least before the chief of Police returned from vacation. And they had fired the only person that might have been able to help, the crazy book keeper who kept braking the cameras when a council member would ask her to adjust the picture or something. No wonder they didn't like my cameras. But if it wasn't for the cameras no one would know they lost all that money and they have to try and find it alone. Thanks to the camera they have all kinds of help but they still haven't found all of that lost money. And it all started with our damn camera. Won't these princes of Democracy be happy to learn we've developed a new system built with major brand products from Sony, Asus and Microsoft which can be installed in any location in the country that has Internet access can now be operated remotely from one of our studio locations on the North or South Oregon coast. This eliminates the problem of finding qualified technicians residing in or willing to relocate to often remote rural locations that lack the work to fill a 40 hour week and resulting wage. Now rural communities can put video conference services into service drastically reducing government transportation costs while providing the potential to create additional revenue hosting video based conference events. A tourist destination can now serve as a regional conference host for events that can reach and serve a global market. This greatly enhances the hosts revenue potential while reducing cost of attendance by as much as 95% per person per location. 
     CPB's development of this technology enabled us to introduce a private label system in early 2004. Today every major manufacturer of video related equipment now offers at least one complete standard and high definition turn key system at about 25% of the price of the early units. Currently we are working with Senators Wyden and Merkley to secure funding to purchase and install full service systems in every rural city and county in America.
Recently the state of Oregon received a $2 million grant to do a survey of the states rural Internet infrastructure. Those funds under the CPB rural technology development program would have paid for the purchase and installation of a full service video production and conference system in every rural county and city in the states of Oregon and Washington and covered the salaries of 7 support/operation engineers for 1 year and included an in depth technology resource survey that we designed to include a complete area specific economic and employment development opportunities introduction of these technologies can offer the subject service area. Our systems are designed to function with the consumer level Internet infrastructure that was in placed in 2005 in the average rural service areas across America. The current package configuration can be used to provide school districts with distance learning and expanded science and technology educational resources along with the ability to be adapted to deliver a variety of in home health care and patient monitoring services. Each system has delivered an average service life of 7.5 years with routine maintenance and software updates. CPB will launch a major outreach campaign in rural Oregon in the fall of 2010. The results of that effort and the number of direct and complimentary jobs created and long term economic development bases established will determine CPB's next expansion strategy.

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 Every Wednesday 10:00am to Noon...  Starting This September

"THE BOOMER NATION LIVE" 
Interactive Internet Television For Todays Seniors

  A Brief History Of Community Public Broadcasting's Coverage Of Local Government Meetings. From The City Council To The County Commissions... The Warm Welcome Was More Heat Than The Staff Was Prepared For. Our Lessons In Oregon Small Town Politics Was Just The Beginning Of A 21 Plus Year Course That Continues To This Day.
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