American Democracy Television

American Democracy Television (ADTV)Type| Syndicated Public-access television Program

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Country|

United States

Availability| All 50 states
Founded| 2005
by Alliance for Representative Democracy

Key people

| National Conference of State Legislatures, Center on Congress, Center for Civic Education

Callsign meaning

| American Democracy Television

Official website

| http://www.representativedemocracy.org

American Democracy Television (ADTV) provides nonpartisan programming about representative democracy to Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV channels across the United States.[1]

## General[edit]

ADTV programming is produced by The Alliance for Representative Democracy a partnership combining the resources of the National Conference of State Legislatures, Trust for Representative Democracy; the Center for Civic Education and the Center on Congress at Indiana University.[2] The project is funded by the U.S. Department of Education under the Education for Democracy Act approved by the U.S. Congress.[3] ADTV has free programming available to public-access television, educational-access television, government-access television channels nationwide, and currently distributes to nearly 500 cable TV stations.[4]

### Selected topics[edit]

* How representative democracy works at the local, state and national levels
* That compromise and disagreement are an important part of our system of democracy
* How their ideas and special interests are represented
* Ways to make their voices heard[5]

In its first 2 years, ADTV spread to all 50 states and Washington, DC. The programming currently reaches over 12 million households on a regular basis and continues to educate the public about representative democracy, with its stated goal to challenge cynicism and reinvigorating the public's perception of its government.[6]

## Awards[edit]

ADTV Flight 4 won the 2005 Gold Marcom Award.[7]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "The Trust for Representative Democracy - American Democracy Television (ADTV)". National Conference of State Legislatures. Archived from the original on 2008-12-01. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
2. ^ "The Center on Congress at Indiana University" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-06-13. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
3. ^ "Representative Democracy in America, Voices of the People" (PDF).
4. ^ "Trust: American Democracy Television Network--ADTV Programming by State". Archived from the original on 2009-11-04. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
5. ^ "Programming | Alliance for Community Media". Archived from the original on 2010-04-16. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
6. ^ "Public Benefit Television | Informative Programming for America". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2009-05-13.
7. ^ "Trust: Representative Democracy in America". Archived from the original on 2009-02-05. Retrieved 2009-05-13.

* ADTV official site
* National Conference of State Legislatures official site
* Center on Congress official site
* Center for Civic Education official site
* PSAs on YouTube