Midpen Media Center Government etc Channel 26 live stream
Midpen Media Center Government etc Channel 26 online television
Midpen Media Center Government Channel 26 is a government access television channel owned and operated by Midpen Media Center, a non-profit community media organization serving the Silicon Valley communities of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, East Palo Alto, Stanford, and other parts of San Mateo and Santa Clara counties in California, United States. Midpen Media Center was founded in 1990 and is headquartered at 900 San Antonio Road in Palo Alto, California. As a dedicated source for online television, Channel 26 is one of two government channels programmed by Midpen Media, alongside Government Channel 29, which also broadcasts municipal government meetings .
The programming schedule allows viewers to watch live channel coverage of municipal government meetings from the Midpeninsula region. Channel 26 regularly broadcasts Palo Alto City Council meetings live, including coverage of the council's discussions on local policy, budget approvals, and community development decisions. The channel also airs meetings of other local government bodies such as planning commissions, boards of supervisors, and special districts as scheduled. The channel focuses exclusively on government content to support an open and informed democratic society . The channel serves as a direct public information service airing gavel-to-gavel coverage of local legislative and administrative proceedings without commercial interruption.
Midpen Media Center's mission is to foster civic engagement, individual expression, and cultural exchange to inspire, inform, and empower people in the larger community. The organization operates five cable channels on Comcast Cable as part of the PEG (Public, Educational, and Government) access system, and all channels are live streamed from the Midpen Media Center website . The center indexes and archives local government meetings and makes them available by agenda item on the web, and partners with the League of Women Voters to produce election forums on all local races, indexing and archiving them for delivery on demand online . For audiences seeking a reliable live stream of local government proceedings from the Silicon Valley area, Midpen Media Center Government Channel 26 is accessible as tv online via the official Midpen Media Center website at midpenmedia.org, which provides live streaming of all five channels. The channel ensures that its government and civic programming reaches residents of Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, East Palo Alto, Stanford, and interested viewers worldwide through both cable television and online streaming.


