A group of deaf people formed the Deaf Media Council (DMC) in 1974 to promote the inclusion of deaf people in the television media, behind and in front of the camera. Their primary goal was to make the television industry more receptive to the needs of deaf people. Deaf people, in the past, tend not to communicate their needs to television stations. DMC collaborated with the University of Maryland for several workshops to familiarize the deaf people in the TV productions. Thirty-minute practice sessions helped teach the deaf people how to produce television shows. After learning that, they started to produce their own television shows. They produced the “Signs of Christmas,” a half-hour program of signed interpretations of Christmas songs, broadcasted on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. This program was nominated for the Emmy award. Later on, they assisted Gallaudet College in developing television workshops for their students. Apathy and lack of access to production facilities caused the death of this organization in 1976. Don Bangs, Chuck Walworth, Betty Ingham, Edward Ingham, James Haynes, Tom Harrington, Muriel Horton, Janet Gagain, Carol Wisdom, Diane Stenz, Steve Howard, and many others consist the membership.