Each month the City’s Communications Division staff produces a 30 minute television show about Eden Prairie that we call “Life in the Prairie”. The show airs on EPTV-16 which is the City’s local government cable channel. The show is very well done. If you’d like to watch it on EPTV-16, it runs on the following schedule:
Monday: 10 a.m., 2 p.m. & 11 p.m.
Tuesday: 10 a.m., 2 p.m., 6:30 p.m. & 11 p.m.
Wednesday: 10 a.m., 2 p.m. & 11 p.m.
Thursday: 10 a.m., 2 p.m., 6:30 p.m. & 11 p.m.
Friday: 10 a.m., 2 p.m. & 11 p.m.
Saturday & Sunday 9 a.m., 6:30 p.m. & 10:30 p.m.
If you have a story idea for Life in the Prairie, send it to us at: www.communications@edenprairie.org
EPTV-16 works just fine for Eden Prairie residents who have cable television service. But if you don’t have cable, now we’ve got an option just for you.
Starting today we are offering a streaming video service from the City’s website. Now anyone in the world can watch “Life in the Prairie” or, starting in January 2006, replays of our City Council meetings, or replays of any meeting or event that we happen to record.
This an exciting development for our website and, if you’re interested in this kind of thing, for our citizens. We were able to start a video streaming program because of the hard work and innovative thinking of a guy in our Information Technology Division named Mike Hutter and the persistence of our Communications Manager Pat Brink.
Pat has a very public role for the City. You’ll see him every month on our TV show. Mike, on the other hand, is a guy that most of you will never meet. He is an insider. He is our web developer, e-government coordinator, and all-around problem resolver. He is well known throughout our organization as a guy that gets it done. We’re fortunate to have him on our team.
So check out our website and stream away.
