The Plot
New Screen Television is a new television service that utilizes WRCF-TV Channel 29 Orlando as its broadcast platform. New Screen TV broadcasts films and videos from the independent artistic and production communities, and serves as an outlet for as wide a range of topics, issues,and genres as possible.
New Screen Television was founded with a very important mission: To provide the independent film and video communities with an unprecedented opportunity to exhibit their work to as broad an audience as possible. The company aims to nurture, create and exhibit the best new work created by artists from around the country, and from around the world.
Formed in 2004, and the company found a home on West Pine Street in downtown Orlando, Florida. West Pine Street remains our home to this day. For a brief background on the company’s senior management and founders, please go to our “Bios” page. Our company is independent – we are not owned by a large media corporation and we are not part of some vast entertainment conglomerate – and we pride ourselves on being a place where artistic vision, artists, and films come first. New Screen Television holds dear the core belief that film, video, and television can combine to be one of the most powerful mass art forms in the world today. Our goal is to support and expand the power of that media, and in particular independent media, and to help promote emerging artists as they endeavor to make an important contribution to our culture and society. We passionately promote arts participation, ardently support artists, and seek to demonstrate the societal value of the arts.
New Screen Television chose Orlando as its home for a wealth of reasons. Orlando is the cultural hub of Central Florida, and through our control of WRCF-TV Channel 29 Orlando – which New Screen Television utilizes as its broadcast platform – we can broadcast a world-class television service dedicated to independent film and video. The Orlando DMA (designated market area) is the nation’s 20th largest market, and the viewer base exceeds 1.3 million television households. Orlando is a city that strongly supports the arts, and the art community in Orlando is growing and prospering. In addition to being home to the internationally recognized Florida Film Festival, the Orlando area is home to over 350 film and entertainment production companies, over 1,200 businesses engaged in supporting the film and television industries, and generates between $500 million and $1 billion in annual spending in the manufacture of film, video, and digital media productions.
The venue that New Screen Television provides to artists, directors, and producers is the first television portal for distribution of outstanding work to a large market. We plan to expand our service’s distribution in the months and years ahead. New Screen Television is successful when it engages artists and those wishing to learn about art, and when viewers are allowed to hear the artistic voices that have not previously been heard and had access to a large audience through the medium of television.
If you are an artist, please join us and submit your work to our service for broadcast exhibition. If you are a viewer of our service, welcome. We are delighted that you are interested in New Screen Television!
For more information, or for answers to specific questions you may have, please email us at: info@newscreen.tv
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