I was looking to do some promotion for our squadron for an upcoming Open House and recruiting drive. I was disappointed to see the PSA's were no longer available in the "PAO Toolkit" downloads from capchannel.com, and there were no more references to them on the CAP Public Affairs webpage.
Are they available anywhere else? What happened to them?
Try here: http://www.capchannel.com/video_
The PSA's are mixed in with the streaming banner on the top.
Hope this helps.
Wow. What an unintuitive move on NHQ's part.
Besides the sitestream link being 404 and dead for those PSAs - even if the link were working, the PSAs would only be available via streaming video. Meanwhile, their video downloads directory from the same CAPChannel page has none of the PSAs available for download.
If it's going to be shown on television, you need a high quality digital file. I wonder if anybody at NHQ/PA realizes they are not available in any form, let alone a high-quality one?
Meanwhile, I can download a low-quality commercial for the past PAO conference, a short documentary about the NOC and a video about the proper ground handling of aircraft. :P I think they got it reversed which videos should be for download and which ones are better suited to streaming.
I just tried FTP'ing into the site. It opens but it's empty. Way to go PA! ???
I put in a Knowledgebase question and Ryan Easterling, Multimedia Production Specialist at NHQ, replied by email letting me know that the PSAs were available. He's going to mail me some DVDs, and he emailed me the Radio PSA's.
So for future reference, if you need the PSAs - contact him at reasterling@capnhq.gov.
On a side note about the PSA's - one PSA is a general overview of CAP's 82-1/2 missions and taskings, and the other PSA (the famous "We're there!" one) focuses soley on ES. How about a radio or TV PSA that promotes the cadet program?? :P