As a volunteer-driven television station, MCA-TV relies on volunteers to produce, edit and star in its locally-produced programs and is always looking for new volunteers and program ideas.
For more than 25 years, MCA-TV has aired locally-produced programming designed to keep Moon Township residents tuned in to their community. In turn, Moon Township residents also play an active part in MCA-TV’s programming lineup.
When volunteers create the programs, the community benefits. Our programs are made by our community, for our community.
Moon Community Access Television is the public, educational and government access television station owned and operated by the Township of Moon. Moon Township is one of the few Western Pennsylvania municipalities to give township residents the opportunity to produce original television programs.
For more than 25 years, MCA-TV has aired locally-produced programming designed to keep Moon Township residents tuned in to their community. In turn, Moon Township residents also play an active part in MCA-TV’s programming lineup.
As a public access television station, MCA-TV is designed to give residents the opportunity to communicate via television. MCA-TV airs a full lineup of locally-produced programs, all of which are produced by Moon Township residents with the help of volunteers from any community.
MCA-TV airs locally on Comcast channel 14 and Verizon FiOS channel 35, and reaches more than 20,000 households in Moon Township and surrounding communities. The station is primarily funded by the cable television franchise fees that cable carriers Comcast and Verizon pay to Moon Township each year. The franchise agreements for each cable provider can be found here: Moon Comcast Franchise Agreement Final 5-4-11.pdf" or Version_ Agmt 11-16-07.pdfVerizon (PDF).
As a volunteer-driven television station, MCA-TV relies on community members to produce, tape and star in its locally-produced programming. Whether you prefer to work behind the scenes or on-camera, MCA-TV has a role for you.
That’s what makes you the key to MCA-TV.
Tour 60 acres of the new Pittsburgh Botanic Garden in nearby North Fayette Township, when Botanic Garden officials Kitty Vagley, director of development, and Chris Massimino, ethno botanist, explain the history of the former Whiskey Rebellion-era farmland and strip mine, the plantings that have survived over the last three centuries, and the recent efforts to remediate the acid mine drainage there. The new Autumn in the Woodlands of the Pittsburgh Botanic Garden, which premiers Saturday on MCA-TV, gives glimpses of the Botanic Garden's features, more than a decade in the making... Read More
Vintage Films Revisited is back for an encore. After a three-year hiatus, the show is back in production with Moon Township resident and host Tony Banks. The popular Saturday night series features a variety of public domain films from the ‘30s, ‘40s, and ‘50s. In Vintage Films Revisited, Banks introduces each film with a brief commentary on the cast as well as the historic and stylistic context of the time period...Read More
Tune in to Moon Community Access Television (MCA-TV) on Monday, September 29 at 9:30 a.m. for the series premiere of D-Day Conneaut. The latest series by MCA-TV Community Producer Earl Edwards highlights the commemorative two-day D-Day reenactment that took place in Conneaut, Ohio in August.
The beach along Lake Erie was transformed back in time as more than 800 re-enactors participated in recreating the historic events of the World War II battle that occurred on the Normandy coast in early June of 1944 between the Allied and Axis armiesRead More View all news articles here
