Many options on getting involved

MCAT offers Media Assistance Grants to civic groups and non-profit organizations. The grant comes in the form of 12 hours of MCAT staff time to produce a program for your group. We have served over 300 groups this way in the last five years. And we have helped produce concerts, key-note addresses, lecture series, organizational profiles, coverage of special events and anniversary messages.

There are many ways to produce an MCAT show:

you can work with MCAT staff on your civic group effort,

you can learn about cameras and editing and tell your own story in every detail,

you can import a program and sponsor it here in Missoula.

Some churches tape their services and run that tape in a weekly time slot. Some producers only work in the studio and edit and title their programs as they happen. Other producers borrow cameras from MCAT and shoot interviews and events in Missoula and edit the raw tapes into a finished program. And some producers sponsor a program made somewhere else by paying the annual user fee and taking responsiblity for the local exhibition of the program.

If you have questions about applying for a Media Assistance Grant, or sponsoring a program on the MCAT channels, call us at 542-6228, Monday through Friday noon to 7pm.