A new weekly television show, Cochise County TV, is presenting feature stories about the culture, history and people of Bisbee and other cities around the county. It can be seen on cable in most cities around the county and in Tucson and is available around the world on the internet. The individual features also can be seen on YouTube.
This is me, on Cochise County TV's Livestream feed, doing what I will be doing a lot of -- talking.
Its focus is “bringing Cochise County together and taking it to the world.”
The show is being produced by Margaret Dillard and its co-host is Gary Dillard, creator of this blog. The show debuted Jan. 26. Among the features on that show were a look at cowboy shooting matches, the origin of Cochise County and an exhibit of artist Ted DeGrazia’s Bisbee works.
The goal of Cochise County TV is to get the 125,000 residents of the expansive county, who live in seven cities and vast rural areas, better acquainted with everything that’s going on in the region. A secondary objective is to let the rest of the world know as well, in hopes of increasing tourism, an important part of the county’s economy.
The county is as large as a couple of northeastern states and with five newspapers serving the various communities, it’s not easy to know what’s happening in other cities.
Dillard has made arrangements with the various cable companies which serve the communities to get the half-hour weekly program showing in as much of the county as possible. As the infrastructure becomes available, more of the county will be covered; that is expected to happen this year.
But buy making the programming available on the internet as well, both as it happens and in an archive, over time a video “wiki” about Cochise County also will be created.
The program is making use of the talents of area videographers, photographers and video editors. Dillard also is planning training sessions for those who want to learn some of these skills.
The programming is to be supported by advertising and sponsorships.
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