Fairfield Public Access Television was founded in 1993 through a Franchise Cable Agreement between the City of Fairfield IA and Mediacom Communications Corporation.

FPAC’s mission is to provide community information through the means of Long and Short-Form programming, a community bulletin board and live broadcast of civic and other community meetings/events.

Over the last 2 years, FPAC has made strides to improve it’s quality of programming through the aquisition of new broadcasting equipment, upgrade of current audio/video equipment and facilities and through community outreach. Currently, FPAC utilizes volunteer students from Fairfield High School who assist in various tasks from video taping to working in our office. FPAC has also formed a partnership with LISCO in Fairfield to provide community programming to their customers as well. LISCO is currently upgrading their network to serve all residents of Jefferson County, which will position FPAC to become a leader in community television for the entire county.

FPAC, established by resolution of the Fairfield City Council is currently governed by a Mayoral appointed Board of Directors. These members serve a 2 year term and may be reappointed if desired. FPAC’s current board members are:

Rustin Lippincott

Dick Deangelis

Jason Kurth

Sondra Ward

In addition, one Advisory Member sits in with the FPAC board. Suzan Kessel, FPAC’s founding Station Manager currently serves this role.

In addition to the board of directors, FPAC also houses 3 full time staff members and 2 part time staff members:

Scott Holderbaum – Station Manager

Bryan Hathorne – Station Assistant Manager

Michael Phelps – IT Manager/Program Director

Jason Strong – Graphics Supervisor

Ken Guthrie – Administration

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