Portage Network creators

Make something for the living room.

Portage Network is Portage on the television: programs that play on the big screen at home, at a pace that lets a family look. Alongside what we make ourselves, it carries episodes made by people who know a place better than we ever will.

If you have a story worth half an hour, pitch it here. Portage doesn’t pay for episodes. An episode that runs on Portage Network carries your name, and can show a QR code to your own site.

What we look for

A real place, told from inside it
Portage is about the history underneath the places people go. The best pitches come from someone who has stood there, knows who lived there, and can say why it still matters.
People, not a listicle
A ferry operator. A church cook. The last family on a road. If the episode can be summed up as a top-ten, it is not for us.
A shape that fills 30 minutes
An episode runs about half an hour on a television in someone's living room. It should have a beginning and an ending, and room to look.
Pictures that hold the screen
Portage Network plays at a pace that lets you look. Footage and photographs that stand still well matter more than fast cutting.

How it goes

1. Pitch. Tell us the story in the form below. A few paragraphs is right; you do not need footage yet.
2. If it’s a fit. We get in touch to talk through the shape of the half hour and what you have.
3. You make it. Portage doesn’t pay for episodes.
4. On the air. The episode runs on Portage Network with your name on it, and can show a QR code to your own site.

Pitch an episode

Prefer email? Write to hi@myportage.app with the same things.