Speaking on behalf of a music, arts & culture institution, KDHX
Community Media (
http://www.kdhx.org), I can say with certainty that
Google Fiber in our community would actually change our business
model. We're presently in the process of moving the home of our
television, radio, and filmmaking operations to Grand Center, a
central neighborhood of St. Louis that is home to over a dozen arts
organizations, with more on the way. It is home to theaters, an opera,
a symphony, a jazz club, a black theater company, art galleries,
museums, public television, a top-notch university, and soon two
public radio stations.
The ability for this neighborhood to be connected by fiber to the
wider St. Louis region can completely change the way people are
connected to the arts. In our case, we would have the ability to
stream live performances from our new studios directly to the homes of
St. Louisans as the performances occur. We could cut the time it takes
to upload our live performance video to YouTube 100-fold. We could
host our radio live streams ourselves, cutting out the need for the
cost, delay, and complexity of hosting with a provider half-way across
the country. We could also bring live video back into our studio,
allowing our audiences to connect with the performers and ask
questions in real-time.
We host two global, internet-based filmmaking competitions: the
National Film Challenge (
http://filmchallenge.org) and the
International Documentary Challenge (
http://docchallenge.org). With
the use of fiber, we could change our submission policy to allow our
participants to upload their films to our servers, decreasing the wait
time traditionally caused by using postal mail.
These are just a few thoughts off the top of my head. KDHX is a fully
Google vested and dependent organization. New ideas would be
encouraged, voted upon, and implemented with the use of Google
Moderator.
Whenever Google Fiber arrives in St. Louis, we will be ready,
Thank you
Steven M. Ley
Director of Internet & Information Technology
KDHX Community Media