About Pirate Television
The Pirate Television Production Company was started in 1997 and produces
a weekly 58 minute cable television series that runs on SCAN- Seattle Community
Access Network and PSA- Puget Sound Access in King County Washington.
Pirate TV has also produced several shows for Free Speech TV and has provided
audio for David Barsamian’s outstanding Alternative
Radio and KEXP Mind Over Matters 90.3 FM Seattle.
Pirate
TV challenges the Media Blockade, bringing you independent voices, information
and programming unavailable on the Corporate Sponsor-Ship.
The show features talks, interviews and documentaries.
The series, originally called “Crack the CIA” focused on exposing the secret
foreign policy of the United States and the phony drug war but as the subject matter of
the program expanded it was decided to drop the “Crack the CIA” moniker and
just call the show “Pirate Television”.
Pirate Television is produced by me, Ed Mays as a form of political
/ media activism. I got involved in public access television back in
the early 90s as a program originator for the Alternative Information Network
project which produced the first nationally syndicated public access program-
"Alternative Views". This program won many awards over its 17 year
run and eventually aired all over the world.
I was an original member of the Seattle Independent
Media Coalition (SIMC) which eventually morphed into the first ever Independent
Media Center, created to give independent (non-corporate) media coverage
of the 1999 Seattle WTO rebellion. I'm proud to say that it was me and
my friends from SIMC who dreamed up and with help from
activists who streamed in from all over the country, built the IMC
in Seattle which spawned a world wide movement. There are
now IMCs everywhere!
Pirate Television continues to produce outstanding programming every
week creating a much needed antidote to the corporate brain-wash by featuring
progressive authors, intellectuals, politicians, independent media
figures, activists, musicians, and other intriguing personalities as well
as extraordinary documentaries rarely seen on TV.
Pirate TV is free to community access stations
and other broadcasters. If you are interested in showing Pirate TV
in your area, please contact me directly via the contact page.
Ed Mays
Producer, Pirate Television