Dublin Community Television

DCTV is a member's co-operative.^[3] DCTV is funded by membership fees, alongside local and national government funding, and community organisations.^{[4][non-primary source needed]} The station does not run advertising.^{[4][non-primary source needed]}

Programs for DCTV are created and produced by sources which include:^{[citation needed]}

• Not-for-profit TV production companies, such as NEAR TV Productions in Coolock.
• Other DCTV member organizations, such as AONTAS (adult education), Cultivate (sustainable living), Project (arts); NALA (adult literacy).
• Individual members of DCTV.

It provides training for its members in television production.^[3] Its own productions are produced under a Creative Commons license that allows non-profit use, subject to recognition of source.^{[citation needed]} In 2011 during the Post-2008 Irish economic downturn Dublin CTV opened up production facilities in disused shopfronts for unemployed locals and students to create media for digital broadcast.^[7]

The channel airs features and shorts (both documentary and drama), cookery programs, adult literacy programmes, activist and college films, community programming, films by young/emerging film-makers and sports (with an emphasis on minority sports).^{[citation needed]}

The station also shows international material such as Democracy Now!^{[6][non-primary source needed]}

In 2012 as part of the local Occupy movement DCTV broadcast a series of local lectures relating to "radical movements in Irish history".^[8]

• Dublin Community Television's channel on Vimeo