{"id":196060,"date":"2026-02-27T06:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196060\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T06:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T06:08:40","slug":"council-oks-contract-with-seal-beach-cable-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/196060\/","title":{"rendered":"Council OKs contract with Seal Beach cable foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SBcityhallW.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"436\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/SBcityhallW.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"SBcityhallW\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The City Council on Feb. 23 voted unanimously to approve a contract with the Seal Beach Cable Communications Foundation. That\u2019s the board behind SBTV-3, the local cable channel. The contract was to produce public, educational, and government communications (such as video of council meetings). The Cable Board has already approved the contract. Funding has been approved in the 2025-2026 budget, according to the staff report.<\/p>\n<p>This was a Consent Calendar item, so there was no discussion among the council members.<\/p>\n<p>Background<\/p>\n<p>The city asked the Cable Foundation to sign a contract last year. (See \u201cCity asks cable foundation board to sign contract\u201d at sunnews.org.)<\/p>\n<p>The city has provided public access cable TV through SBTV-3 and the Cable Foundation for more than 40 years, according to the staff report by Recreation Manager Tim Kelsey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreviously the City contracted directly with Station Manager Robin Fort-Lincke, to provide management services for SBTV-3,\u201d Kelsey wrote. (As previously reported, Fort-Lincke resigned in 2022.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Foundation has traditionally operated as an advisory board providing insight into programming and various other items such as equipment related to public access television,\u201d Kelsey wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the unexpected passing of Robin Fort-Lincke, the City partnered with the Foundation to provide services for the past few years,\u201d Kelsey wrote. Fort-Lincke died in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Peter Anninos, chair of the Cable Foundation, called for the city to hire a new, part-time station manager and to update the equipment. (See \u201cCable Foundation chair: SBTV3 station equipment \u2018generations behind\u2019\u201d\u00a0 and \u201cSBTV3 seeks more funding\u201d at sunnews.org.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe City would like to formalize the relationship with the Foundation by entering into a Professional Services Agreement that clearly defines the services provided by the Foundation,\u201d Kelsey wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Seal Beach will pay the foundation a maximum of $90,000. The money was approved as part of the current budget, according to Kelsey\u2019s report. \u201cAdditionally, the Council has approved Capital Improvement Projects for up to $160,000 that upgrade the control room and equipment used in the Council Chambers. Capital Improvement Projects will be managed and awarded by the City directly, and staff will coordinate all work with the Foundation,\u201d Kelsey wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catalinaexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sunnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/OCCN-122018_300x250.gif\"\/><\/a>        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City Council on Feb. 23 voted unanimously to approve a contract with the Seal Beach Cable Communications&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-196060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}