Name

PACIFICA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC

Legal name

Pacifica Community Television Inc

Website

https://pacificcoast.tv

Company type

Private

Founded year

1977

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Public Access Television Broadcasting

NAICS

Television Broadcasting Stations (51612), Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers (51621)

SIC

Television Broadcasting Stations (4833)

akta.pro primary industry

State/Regional Public Broadcasting Networks & Consortia (MPABADAC)

akta.pro secondary industry

Public Media Digital Platforms & Streaming (Apps, On-demand, Podcasts) (MPABADAG)

Keywords

• Community television broadcasting
• Public access media
• PEG channel operations
• Video production services
• Local government broadcasting

Headquarters

HQ city

PACIFICA, California

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. PEG Fees (Public, Education, and Government): Cable companies such as Comcast and AT&T are charged PEG fees intended to support PEG channel activity. PCT receives a portion of these fees as a designated community media center. The station is actively advocating to the California Public Utilities Commission to ensure these funds are directed to their intended purpose and to gain inclusion on the HD cable tier.
2. Donations and Member Contributions: Community members can become members of PCT and make financial contributions to support the station's operations and mission of providing community access to media.
3. Annual Telethon and Auction: PCT conducts an annual telethon promoting local businesses by auctioning products and services to an audience spanning Pacifica to Pescadero and worldwide online. This event is a key fundraising mechanism, marking its 43rd anniversary in 2019.
4. Business Underwriting and Advertising: PCT supports local businesses and non-profits by filming community events and offering advertising and video business profiles on its channel and website to targeted local audiences. The station offers TV Spotlights and Audio Spotlights on its internet radio station.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Pacifica Community Television Inc (dba Pacific Coast TV / PCT) operates a non-profit public, education, and government (PEG) access television station serving the Coastside community in San Mateo County, California. Founded in 1977, the station broadcasts on Comcast Channels 26 and 27, streams 24/7 via pacificcoast.tv, and distributes content on YouTube. PCT provides community members with free access to media production tools and training, broadcasts local government meetings for transparency, produces coverage of community events, and offers video profile services for local businesses.

Product overview

Pacific Coast TV (PCT) is a non-profit community television station operating as a single unified public access broadcasting service. The station provides live and on-demand television programming across multiple platforms: traditional cable broadcast (Channels 26/27), real-time website streaming, and YouTube distribution. PCT serves as the public access voice for the Coastside community, offering local government meeting coverage, community-produced programming, professional production training, internship opportunities, and event coverage services. The organization functions as the nation's oldest Community Media Center, delivering PEG (Public, Education, and Government) content through its core broadcast infrastructure supplemented by digital streaming, on-demand services, and social media channels.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PCT Cable Television Broadcasting Community public access television broadcasting on Comcast Channel 26 (Pacifica) and Channel 27 (Half Moon Bay/Coastside), providing local government coverage, community programming, and educational content to residents of the Coastside.
• PCT On Demand (Video on Demand Service) Video-on-demand service allowing viewers worldwide to access recorded council meetings, community events, local cultural programs, and member-produced content at any time via pacificcoast.tv.
• PCT Live Stream 24/7 live streaming of PCT programming via the website, enabling viewers worldwide to watch live content from anywhere, with separate Pacifica and HMB/Coastside streams.
• PCT YouTube Channel YouTube channel (Pacific Coast TV) for additional content distribution and on-demand viewing of PCT programming, making content accessible to a wider audience beyond the cable broadcast footprint.
• Production Training and Workshops Training programs and workshops teaching television production, video editing, podcasting, social media, and live broadcasting skills to community members and interns.
• Community Event Coverage Services Professional multi-camera coverage services for community events including festivals (Fog Fest, Pumpkin Fest, Pelican Fest), city council meetings, candidate forums, and local news coverage, offered to local governments, organizations, and event organizers.
• Business Video Profiles Video profile production and advertising/spotlight services for local businesses and non-profits to showcase their operations, values, and community connections to a targeted local Coastside audience.
• Home Production Services Remote production support allowing community members to produce TV shows or podcasts from home with PCT staff assistance acting as personal video engineers.

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Pacifica DemocratsminorGTM or Marketing PartnerThe Pacifica Democrats have partnered with PCT locally to host candidate forums and educate local residents during election seasons. PCT sponsors and broadcasts these forums on its channels, providing civic engagement content.
• Alliance For Community MediaminorOthersThe Alliance For Community Media grants WAVE Awards for access video excellence, recognizing outstanding PEG station productions. PCT has received WAVE awards for productions such as the Surf Camp Pacifica segment and COVID Chronicles series.

Scale indicators3 records

Broad incumbents

• KQED: The Bay Area's flagship PBS/NPR member station, a much larger public broadcaster headquartered in San Francisco. Broader incumbent serving the same Bay Area market with overlapping public-media mandate, although at significantly larger scale and with a different (PBS/NPR-style) funding and programming model than PCT's local access focus.

Others

• Democracy Now!: Independent daily news program syndicated to community and public access stations including PCT. Not a competitor but a key content partner and brand association (Executive Director Martin Anaya is a former producer), making it an influential ecosystem participant for PCT's programming.
• Alliance for Community Media: National trade association representing PEG access channels and community media centers. PCT participates through this body (having received WAVE Awards), making it a key industry, advocacy, and peer-recognition counterpart rather than a competing broadcaster.

Direct peers

• Berkeley Community Media: Berkeley's PEG access media center providing community members with production tools, training, and cable channel distribution. Shares PCT's non-profit PEG access mission, member-onboarding model, and cable-distribution funding mechanism in a nearby Bay Area city.
• Midpeninsula Community Media Center (Midpen Media Center): PEG access media center serving the Midpeninsula region (Palo Alto, Menlo Park, East Palo Alto, Atherton). Operates the same non-profit, community-media-center model with PEG funding, member-produced programming, training, and government meeting coverage, making it one of PCT's closest structural peers in the Bay Area.
• Peninsula TV (San Mateo): PEG access media center serving additional San Mateo County communities not directly served by PCT. Direct peer given shared county footprint, PEG funding model, and community access television mission.
• Marin Community Media (formerly Marin Television): Marin County's community media center offering PEG access channels, production training, and community programming. Comparable as a Bay Area-adjacent non-profit PEG station with similar funding structure and community-empowerment mission to PCT.
• SFGovTV (San Francisco Government Television): San Francisco's public, education, and government (PEG) access channel operated by the city. Directly comparable as a Bay Area PEG station providing government meeting coverage, community programming, and live/on-demand distribution on the cable footprint adjacent to PCT's Coastside market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/PacificCoastTV?s=20
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCBf-uxfxmSUxqQo6VouWvZQ
• Facebookfacebook.com/PacificCoastTv
• Instagraminstagram.com/pacificcoasttv
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/pacifica-community-television-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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