In a previous post, we summarized the year-long efforts of VAN to include better conditions for access media in Comcast’s license renewal. In January, they were awarded many of their requests by the state’s Public Service Board. PEG people everywhere rejoiced because this created a precedent that others could cite. Indeed, MassAccess did just that […]
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The New York State of Public Access Medi...
A message from Marc Gronich, a member of the ACMNY board: There has been much public backlash in the town of Bethlehem, Albany County, regarding the library board wanting to cut the cord on the town community media station and let the town pocket the $686,000 they receive each year from the cable franchise fee. […]
Virtually 360 degrees: a national collab...
Brookline Interactive Group (BIG), the Public VR Lab, NCTV and the ACM are creating a national collaborative pilot project around 360 filmmaking, immersive journalism, and community storytelling. They are looking for others to join their cohort to learn, share, and create a 360/VR documentary project on “Re-imaging Migration” over the next year. Any media, journalism, government […]
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, […]
Deadline extended for Northeast Video Fe...
There is still an opportunity to send your center’s work for all in the Northeast to see! Get started here. You can experience the 2016 award ceremony in Portland, Maine (except for the food) by watching it on YouTube.
Look for Us in Minneapolis!
ACM Northeast Region Members Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, July 12 @ 3:15 – 4:15pm, Central Time, in Deer/Elk Lake (4th floor of the Marriott). If you can find it on the conference schedule page, you can see who else will be there! Come see our smiling faces, hear our plans–especially about our regional conference this […]
Meanwhile in Massachusetts…
The Legislative Approach Eric Dresser’s May report to ACM-NE began with Bill H.2682, “basically aimed at helping to require cable television operators provide PEG access feeds for both SD & HD, while also enabling Electronic Programming Guide so that subscribers may record, select and view PEG access channels in the same manner as local broadcast […]
Vermont Access Network in 2017
Catching up on some exciting episodes… But before we get into this saga, some regulatory basics for the non-Vermonters: Franchise agreements–or Certificates of Public Good (CPG)–are settled at state level by the VT regulatory agency, the Public Service Board. Comcast is the main cable provider for most of the state, with one area primarily served […]
ACMNY goes to Albany
This is adapted from a report by Tony Arrien, chair of the New York state chapter: ACM New York had a “Community Media Advocacy Day” in Albany back on March 29, 2017. In addition to most of our ACMNY Board members, more than a dozen Community Media representatives from all over the state went to the capital for […]