BRIC Community Media

Providing A Voice for Brooklyn

BRIC Arts|Media|Bklyn is the community access television organization for the borough of Brooklyn. By providing four public cable channels, a community media education program, curated productions focused purely on the Brooklyn community, a 24-hour non-profit community bulletin board and over 560 Brooklyn Free Speech TV programs, BRIC enables our residents to become empowered through the dynamic medium of television.

Our BCAT TV Network reaches over half a million Brooklyn cable-subscribers. Streaming online, our community's message reaches beyond the borough's boundaries and can reach the entire world. Community producers create over 650 hours of weekly content for our Brooklyn Free Speech TV programs, many in languages not available on mainstream  television networks. 

 

Brooklyn Independent Television (BIT) consists of a dozen curated, professionally-produced television productions focused purely on issues, events, culture, businesses and personalities of Brooklyn.  Since 2006, Brooklyn Independent Television has created over 1,200 television packages celebrating the facets that make this borough so unique. Brooklyn Independent Television airs Monday - Friday at 12pm - 3pm and 8pm - 11pm. Viewers can also watch favorite episodes on demand.

Our Brooklyn Center for Media Education (BCME)at the BCAT Media Center provides Brooklyn residents with access to a variety of media services, courses and workshops that will enable them to produce content for

television and learn more about the ever-changing landscape of technology available to them today. All classes are hands-on and taught by professionals with years of experience. Upon completion of our basic production classes, students become Certified Community Producers, allowing them to use our state-of-the-art media facility and production equipment so they can begin creating their own Brooklyn Free Speech TV Programs. 

 

Brooklyn Bulletin Board is a 24/7 looping community announcement service used by over 2,000 Brooklyn non-profit organizations. Users may submit their organization's information online or use Brooklyn Bulletin Board as an excellent tool for finding resources, services and events occurring in their neighborhood. 

 

Our BCAT Media Center provides all Brooklynites with access to studio facilities, equipment and training. Located at 647 Fulton Street in the heart of Ft Greene, the BCAT Media Center has a training studio, a main studio, a mini-studio and eight editing bays equipped with AVID editing software.  It also houses BRIC Community Media offices, the BCAT TV Network master control and the Brooklyn Center for Media Education.