In August 1999, Seattle Community Access Network was formed as a non-profit organization in order to take over station operations from TCI.
[1] Part of the reason for creating the organization was to handle complaints about adult material being aired on the channel by local producers.
Seattle Community Access Network provides television productions resources to residents in King County and the greater Puget Sound region for use in creating TV shows and local programming.
The facility also provides three editing booths, several television cameras and related equipment for local residents to use for producing TV shows.
SCAN has 12 full-time and 3 part-time employees that run the facility and train residents on how to use the camera equipment and editing suites.
[2] The staff regularly hold classes to teach residents TV production and video editing.
The production facilities are also utilized by Reel grrls program run by 911 Media Arts Center and the local YMCA.
Starting in 2006, the Cable Television Franchise Subfund is managed by the Department of Information Technology (DoIT) and is used fund things other than PEG channels.
From 1997, before SCAN was created, until 2006, the station aired TV shows with adult material that were produced by local residents.
[11] In 2005, while the Seattle city government was renegotiating the franchise agreement with Comcast, there were concerns about the cable company trying to shut down the public access station.
[2][6] A controversial part of the budget is $400,000 of the Cable Television Franchise Subfund being used to upgrade email for the Seattle city government.
[16][17] BETA TV: is a comedy variety show from the Seattle Neutrino Project/Beta Society improv group.
Go-Kustom TV: aired from 2001 to 2004 on SCAN and featured kustom kulture artists, pin-ups, car builders and bands from around the Greater Seattle Area.