Alliance for Community Media – Northeast Region is a regional affiliate of the national Alliance for Community Media, which “represents over 3,000 Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access organizations and community media center throughout the country.” If you or your access center is a dues-paying member of ACM, you get reduced fees (sometimes to zero) […]
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More about Last November
Matt Sullivan is Chief Operations Officer of Larchmont Mamaroneck Community Television (LMCTV), north of New York City. He was ACMNY’s pick for a scholarship to the November 2017 Northeast Regional conference in Falmouth, MA. He writes enthusiastically of his experience: The conference kick-off was wonderful, as participants were invited to tour Falmouth Community Television’s beautiful facility. […]
2017 Special Awards
Honoring Some Special People We hope you can join us in recognizing the recipients of our annual Special Awards during the 2017 Northeast Video Festival Awards Celebration on Friday, November 3 at the Falmouth Navigator, 55 Ashumet Road in Falmouth, MA. This year we celebrate these stars among our colleagues: Brian Wilson Mentor Award Cor Trowbridge, […]
A First for MassAccess
MassAccess is now accepting submissions from Massachusetts residents for the first Annual Massachusetts Creator Awards. Winners will be judged by a panel of media experts from across the country. The deadline to submit entries is November 30th at 11:59pm. The winners will be announced at the gala event on January 23, 2018 at Venu in Boston. […]
Why he went to Minneapolis
Marc Gronich is Director of Legislative Affairs for the state affiliate, ACM New York and Vice-Chairman of the Oversight Board for Channel Albany in the state capital. With decades of experience as a community access intern and producer, he went to the Rivers to Cross conference to seek the policy and technological tools to help […]
It’s bigger than BIG
An Invitation to Boston Area Centers For the last two summers, BIG (Brookline Interactive Group) has participated in Crowdsourced Cinema, a public art project formed by friends at Northampton Community Television (NCTV) in which the community collaboratively remakes a famous film by assigning each of the film’s scenes to different participating teams to interpret creatively, […]
TWO scholarships offered for Rivers to C...
2017 Paul Berg Scholarship ACM Northeast can fund not one but TWO–count’em, TWO– people to attend the national conference, Rivers to Cross, in Minneapolis, July 12-14, 2017. Each scholarship includes full conference registration, up to three nights at the conference hotel, and money towards transportation. This scholarship is a partial reimbursement, and receipts must be provided in order […]
Who’s going to Boston in August…
…and why? Having the national Alliance conference take place as close as Boston is a once-in-a-decade opportunity for a lot of us. Because the Northeast Region is not holding its own regional conference, we were able to offer more than one scholarship to Our Town next month. The applicants and winners offered interesting thoughts on […]
One week left!
Has your Organization now or ever been (in the last 2 years) a member of the Alliance for Community Media? If so, there is still an opportunity to get 16 months of membership for 12 months’ worth of dues. This offer ends next Sunday, January 31, 2016. Organizational dues are based on the size of […]
Cable regulation workshop at the MMA con...
The Massachusetts Municipal Association (MMA) Annual Meeting and Conference is scheduled for January 22-23 at the Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel. One workshop at this conference will a panel on cable television license renewals, transfers, municipal and state cable oversight and regulatory updates. This panel will be moderated by Bill August, Esq. of […]