GITV General Information

Grand Island Television, also referred to as GITV, is the City of Grand Island's Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) Station serving the residents of Grand Island and Hall County. The purpose of GITV is to be a source for information about local government, civic affairs and education through regularly filmed broadcasts of various public meetings, events and programs.

GITV and its informational channel can be viewed on Allo Streaming (Channels 1 and 2), Spectrum/Charter Communications (Channel 180 and 187) or via digital channel 50.1 for those who do not have cable. For residents who do not have Allo, Spectrum or analog options, GITV can also be watched on computers or mobile devices via a live stream on the City of Grand Island website. A link directly to the live stream can be found HERE. You can also watch archived segments HERE.

GITV channels 187 and 50 air news segments that are educational, governmental, or community related in nature.  Public service announcements and programs provided by other government entities and nonprofit organizations are also included in the mix.

Programs include:

• City Council meetings are aired live on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. (when meetings are held) and rebroadcasted weekdays at 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.

• School Board meetings rebroadcasted on Saturday and Sunday at 6 p.m.

• Hall County Board of Supervisors meetings on Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.

• Citizen Review Committee meetings are aired lived--schedule of meetings varies

• Programs addressing current issues in City government--monthly City Matters segment

• Programs from local organizations--monthly Community Connections segment

• Programs from other government entities

GITV also offers an information channel (Channel 1 on Allo, Channel 180 on Spectrum). This channel provides information on upcoming community events, government happenings, nonprofit organizations and up-to-date weather.  This electronic bulletin board meets the need of every resident and runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week.  To find out if your event or announcement would qualify to be aired please review the GITV policy. Qualifying announcements in the format of an event flyer can be e-mailed or dropped off at city hall no later than two weeks prior to the event.

GITV was developed in late 1993.  A franchise agreement was established between the City of Grand Island and TCI Cable Television, providing an initial $60,000 to fund the startup of Governmental Educational Television, and it continues to make an annual contribution to support GITV.

If you are interested in providing or request programming be added to the GITV schedule or would like to list information on Digital Data 180, please contact Communications Manager Spencer Schubert at spencers@grand-island.com or by calling (308) 385-5444, Ext. 1148