In 1963, Robert Allan Monroe and his company Monroe Industries, Inc. moved into cable television,
                  forming the Jefferson Cable Corporation.  They were central Virginia's first cable company, building
                  cable television systems in Charlottesville and Waynesboro, Virginia.  In presumably the early
                  1970's, Jefferson Cable began a local community access channel in Charlottesville.  Among the
                  earliest cable access programs, the late Bernard Peyton Chamberlain produced a series of
                  half-hour "Community History" television programs, from January 1973 through April 1978.  He
                  interviewed dozens of local citizens, covering numerous topics and occasionally touring local
                  historical landmarks.  Also introduced during this time was the telecast of First Baptist Church on
                  Park Street.  Still airing today, this program is the longest-running original show in Charlottesville
                  Public Access Television history.



              
                 In 1993, Adelphia Communications bought Jefferson Cable.  After more than twenty years with
                  just one community access channel, the City of Charlottesville and Adelphia entered into a new
                  franchise agreement, providing for the addition of government and educational access stations.
                  Originally housed on West Main Street in one of the former Adelphia buildings, the stations quickly
                  spawned several familiar faces and numerous notable programs like "The Trevor Moore Show,"
                  "Community Focus," "Piedmont Virginia Fiddle & Banjo Association" and "Caught in the Act."




                 In April 1998, Adelphia, the City of Charlottesville and the Charlottesville-Albemarle Technical
                  Education Center reached an agreement to house the access facilities at CATEC as part of a five
                  year lease, in exchange for educational use of all production equipment to the school and its
                  video production students.  Because of this, all three stations made the move from Downtown to
                  CATEC in the spring of 1999, and was fully functional effective that August.  Originally a day care
                  facility and part of the CATEC curriculum that had become vacant the year before, renovations
                  included conversion of an office, laundry facility and a large "play room" into a working television
                  studio.  After years of station management changing hands among cable access producers,
                  long-time producer Cal Tate took over as General Manager in the fall of 2000.  He introduced a
                  new name for the station group, Charlottesville Public Access Television (CPA-TV), and a new logo
                  designed by long-time producer Marlene Hopkins.




                Following an upgrade of equipment just months before, CPA-TV held its first ever two-hour live
                 broadcast in the summer of 2001, an Open House event hosted by Ryal Thomas & Dana Hatcher.
                 Directed by David Dillehunt, this exciting television event marked the beginning of a new era at
                 CPA-TV.  Over the next five years, more than 700 hours of original programming would be
                 produced in our studio, the accomplishment of more than 200 hard-working individuals.




                In 2006, Comcast Cable took over Adelphia's cable operations in Charlottesville.  With a new
                 franchise agreement extending through 2010, Charlottesville Public Access Television will always
                 provide state-of-the-art facilities for the production of high-quality local programs that express
                 the diverse nature of our community.  We are YOUR community access station.