SCAT-TV came about in 1995...I was living in Tucson and working public accessTV...I was on the Board of Tucson Community Cable, and also on the National Board of the Alliance for Community Media, the governing body of all public access station in the USA...

It was the end of my term, on the Board, and we wree having a party (in Boston) to say farewell to the outgoing board members, and welcoming the new members...at the party, two of the board members came over to me and said, "Job, you're a Mormon," I said Yes, then they asked, "how come that Mormon Utah is the only state in the USA with no public access?" I replied, "Is that a challange?" ...and they smiled and said, "Well, yes..."

I had a Ryder truck in Boston, and was taking three tons of clothing from the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) from new England to the second Mesa of Hopi Land... when I got back to Arizona and unloaded the clothing, called the Ryder company and asked if I could return the truck in Utah, they said yes, and I went down to Tucson, loaded up my things, which included enough to set up a basic access station...moved to central Utah (where I had been planning to move for 42 years)...only knew three people there, and within six months I was on the air with the first access station in uitah... we've been on the air for one year now, and have grown from one town to thirteen towns...all the financing has come from my Veterans disability.....

My deep committment to public access TV stems from the fact that I am probably the most blacklisted person in the history of TV...(my Karma for all thiose I was inviolved in blacklisting...

I was unable to work in TV in this country...tv my chosesn profession...Keep in mind that I did my first TV show at age 14 in 1940, at the New York World's Fair...TV was just 10 months old (that is on the air) Tghere were fewer then 200 tv sets in the country then...

I did my first paid gig in 1947 on WABD Dumont Broadcasting in NYC....I was a student of TV at CCNY in NY, and got a bit part on a friday night fashion show (the highest rated show in TV at the time...) I played the rear end of a theatrical horse...a most humbling experien ...

and when I discovered Access TV, it was a release and an end to the frustratiuon of not being able to work in my chosen profession... within a year my Magic Mouse Programme won a HOMETOWN VIDEO AWARD... The Public Access equivalent of the Oscars.... that was in 1993, and again in 1994 I won the award again...

If nothing else, it proved to me that I knew my business, and it ended years of frustration....

Although I couldn't work here, as soon as I left the country and went to the UK, I was working for the BBC in London, and continued to work for them for seven years... doing both news and current affairs, and three different comedy series.....

I was also able to work for New Zealand Broadcasting, and for six months worked for Swedish Broadcasting in Stockholm...

and when I came here to Utah and was able to start my own station, with no money... the station is financed by my veterans disability... we run it on less then a shoe string, but we run it....