1st Place: Eau Claire County Humane Assoc.
2nd Place: 48-Hour Video Projects
3rd Place: Vintage Eau Claire promo videos

What can we say? People love puppies and kitties. And we believe this love is what propelled a promotional documentary on the Eau Claire County Human Society to the top of the heap of CTV-produced programs. Your second favorite program to watch on cable channels 96 and 97 (or digital channels 993 and 994) is screenings of the various 48-Hour Video Projects, which feature local amateur moviemakers who, in the span of a weekend, shoot and edit a short film on a specified theme. These films run the gamut from “pretty damn cool” to “laughably bad in a good way.” The vintage promotional film Our Town Eau Claire took third place. CTV didn’t even produce the film (a guy named Robert M. Carson did in 1953), but CTV is the only place you can see old timey footage of a 1950s Eau Claire. – Mike Paulus