The Alliance for Community Media Hometown Media Awards is a nationwide organization established to honor and promote community media and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels. Each year, thousands of entries are submitted from across the nation. A panel of judges evaluate the entries and awards are presented to the most creative programs that address community needs, develop diverse community involvement, challenge conventional commercial television formats and move viewers to experience television in a different way.

The Alliance for Community Media – New England Region represents hundreds of PEG Access studios from every New England state and the state of New York. Similar to the National Hometown Media Awards, the many hundreds of entries are judged for their originality, professional creation, and value to the viewing audience.