Although it sounds like the premise and setting for a Saturday Night Live skit, the Hernando Web Channel and its complementary website number among the internet's greatest wonders and paradoxes. Hernando County, Florida, is home to only 130,000 people, and the median income hovers just above the poverty line. Donald Trump has almost as many live-in helpers as the city of Hernando, Florida, has residents. Yet the Hernando Web Channel broadcasts loud and clear twenty-four hours a day, rivalling the best, brightest, biggest, and most robust civic sites on the web. Of course, Hernando Web Channel airs all of the county's regular board and commission meetings, taking viewers into the county's corridors of power. More importantly, though, Hernando Web Channel produces some extremely high-quality original programming especially its two newest programs, Behind the Star and Understanding the Law. Two of its most popular programs show the channel's social conscience: Healthy Hernando addresses the whole spectrum of health and medical issues, and Veterans' Voice deals with urgent concerns among the community's veterans of all ages. Hernando may be hidden away along the east side of US Highway 98, but Hernando Web Channel gives the city and county a very big place on the net."

You have grown unbearably weary of unreal housewives in all geographies; you are frustrated because great new series run on USA for only eight weeks before they disappear with only vague promises they will return. You have watched every crime drama rerun on TNT twice. And you have abandoned all hope of keeping up with any single Kardashian let alone all of them. You really weren't all that interested in Bruce Jenner anyway. So, instead of watching television ripped from the headlines, why don't you watch television that actually makes headlines? Why not run your fingers over the vital organs in the body politic? Spend a few hours with Michigan's House of Representatives and State Senate, tuning in to House Television, more properly Michigan Government Television, or MGTV for short. Why Michigan? you naturally wonder. In fact, you have two serious reasons for dialling in to MGTV: First, it was one of the first state-owned and operated public-service channels in the nation and still is one of the most inclusive. Second, if you missed Eminem's and Chrysler's messages, MGTV will show you exactly how the beleaguered home of the auto industry aggressively is mounting a comeback. MGTV televises House and Senate committees, and it shows meetings of executive branch commissions, where the gears of government really grind. MGTV also broadcasts meetings of the state's Board of Education, and it often airs programs from its prestigious universities no stuff for lightweights. Best, MGTV is one of the few channels that airs oral arguments before the state's Supreme Court, so that you can see some of the nation's finest legal minds and some of its most prominent litigators doing their best work.

The average Tucson resident regularly struggles with the proper spelling of saguaro, the unique cactus that grows only in the Sonora Desert. They know, though, they can learn to spell and care for, and protect, and photograph, and botanize, and generally celebrate their saguaros at Tucson 12, the locals destination for all things Tucson. Arguably the most impressive civic channel anywhere in the known universe, Tucson 12 is the award winning local TV station that reflects, informs and inspires the community it serves. Broadcasting twenty-four hours every day on both Cox and Comcast, Tucson 12 offers an impressive, wonderfully diverse array of programs developed to showcase the diverse civic and cultural landscape of the Southwest's most unique City, Tucson 12 earned that trophy case full of awards, offering high-quality locally produced series and features that frequently rival the best of the networks long-form pieces. Tucson 12 has earned more than one hundred programming and technical awards, including recognition from the New York Film Festival and a whole case full of Emmys. The Tucson 12 staff takes greatest pride in its recognition as NATOA's Station of the Year and Excellence in Government Programming ten of the last fifteen years.

Gwinnett TV is the government TV channel of Gwinnett County, Georgia established and run by Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners. Gwinnett TV mission is to inform citizens about government activities, current affairs, local news and events. The channel features lots of own-produced programming like: Eye On Gwinnett: Gwinnett County News, Gwinnett County Public Library Overview, Georgia 4-H, Vision - Gwinnett Now and Tomorrow, Eye On Gwinnett Extra: MLK Day Celebration, Senior Services Center Ribbon Cutting, Recorder's Court: Judge Rodney Harris Swearing In Ceremony, Gwinnett Technology Forum: Growing In A Recession, Sugarloaf Parkways Extension Ribbon Cutting - Phase II, Staying Active in Gwinnett - Gwinnett Senior Citizens, REPLAY - Board of Commissioners Public Hearing, From If to When: The Reality of the Pan-Flu Threat, Gwinnett Technology Forum: Transformation of Healthcare I.T., Gwinnett Reads: Sara Gruen, Presento Mi Caso, Pandemic Flu: Individual and Family Preparedness, Medical Reserve Corps, Dangerous Work: Trench Safety, Septic Tank Maintenance Workshop, The Challenge of Stormwater Runoff, The Gwinnett Force: Cyber Bullying, Growing In Gwinnett: Mental Wellness, Meth Impact Seminar, Detention Pond Maintenance Workshop, Rain Gardens for Home Landscapes, I Present My Case, People Helping People: Mentoring, In The Fight, Gwinnett Reads: Sara Gruen and Army Newswatch.

AVN is the government TV channel of Arlington aimed to inform the citizens about city and county activities and current affairs. The channel is available via Comcast, Verizon and in the Internet as AVN Live. The channel programming consist of: Community Bulletin Boards, PSAs, County Board Meetings, Cuentos y Mas, Documentaries, Exercise Buddies, Food for Thought TV Interactive, Here/Now program, Newsmakers and more.

Although KCLV Channel 2 Las Vegas is the classical government access channel it provides quite interesting programming: Community Calendar, Classic Arts, Between the Lines, Las Vegas 360, Profile of a Pandemic, Earth Revealed, City Beat en Espanol, City, Cinema, In2Film, City Beat, The Habitable Planet, Unseen Life on Earth, Pequero Empresa 2000, Royal Wedding, American Cinema, Las Vegas City Scene, Bridging World History, Power of Place, Water Ways, City Beat, Exploring the World of Music, Today's Air Force, Facing Foreclosure, Army News Watch, Health District TV, SPRINGS Elemental, The American Veteran, The Road to Recovery, Small Business School, The Grill Sergeants, Homeowner Talk, NASA SCI Files, The Flood Channel, Health & Home, White House Chronicle, Fit for Duty, SHAMU TV, LVMPD Briefing Room, The American Veteran and NASA 360.