Bowie Community Media Corporation (BCMC) is a non-profit organization offering residents of the City of Bowie, Bowie based businesses and organizations, and educational institutions access and training to produce their own programs for airing on local cable access television in the City of Bowie, Maryland.  We support the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, without bias or prejudice.

BCMC’s mission is to:

1. Promote lifelong learning through the creation, production and cable casting of programs aimed at the preservation, development, and enhancement of the diversity of thought, art, culture, and heritage within the Bowie community.
2. Facilitate communication through broadcast and streaming technology; and
3. Increase civic participation by promoting the use of televised public access.

It is BCMC’s vision to:

1. Create programming and content for Public, Education, and Government (PEG) use in a manner that is free of censorship, except as necessary to comply with State or Federal law.
2. Provide a range of resources for program production for the users of the PEG channels.
3. Develop and enforce such rules and policies that will ensure equitable access to the PEG channels and production with applicable State or Federal laws.
4. Establish a broad base of community understanding, support, and involvement in PEG access television.
5. Provide information to ensure the effective use of the public access channel(s).
6. Assess community response to programming on the channel(s), to ascertain areas of need and aid in the implementation of additional programming.
7. Provide sound management and financial strategies to ensure continued community access to and use of the access channel(s) in years to come.
8. Participate in the development of further community uses of telecommunication technology; and
9. Work cooperatively with other similar and related organizations locally, regionally and nationally to promote and develop meaningful community uses of public access programming.