The Special Awards Committee worked very hard while deciding the Special Awards in 2016. These are their choices from the many great nominations submitted this year: Chuck Sherwood Leadership Award Lisa Byer, Executive Director of Catamount Access TV in Bennington received four separate nominations from four different parts of Vermont for the Chuck Sherwood Leadership Award. […]
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Author: Pua Ford
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 […]
What’s New in the Northeast?
At the monthly meeting/conference calls, members of the ACM Northeast Board exchange news from our states, much of it about policy matters at state level. ACM-NE can’t work on policy at a regional level, with all the variation among the states, but we all learn from each other how things work and might work for […]
Who Covers Community News?
Erica Jones at Somerville Community Access TV (MA) and Jane Regan, a professor at Salem State University, are trying to find out find out what type of local news, public affairs and independent local programming is happening in the United States at PEG centers. The results will help illustrate to funders, politicians, and scholars that community […]
Connecting in Connecticut – April 2016
Connecticut ACM has managed to hold two face-to-face meetings in the past 7 months. In September, Citizens TV in New Haven hosted several PEG people for lunch and a tour of their facility (recently converted from a veterinary hospital). Over lunch they discussed their mutual problem of insufficient funding and how to approach the legislature. Trying to recover the PEGPETIA fund […]
Massive MassAccess – April 2016
(adapted from Erich Archer’s report to ACM-NE) The spring conference will be on 4/29 at High Output Studios in Canton, MA, with vendors & workshops. As at other conferences, those interested only in the trade show must pay to enter. ACM-NE will have a table at this MassAccess conference to provide information on our national & […]
Maine-ly Access – April 2016
Greetings from the State of Maine! The snow missed us this year, the sun is shining. CTAM (Cable Television Association of Maine) held a meeting January 26th at CTN in Portland. The next meeting will be April 28th at Mt. Blue TV in Farmington (where JP Fortier is Chief Cook and Bottle-Washer). Brian Knoblock is […]
New Hampshire: still alive, still making...
(adapted from P-e-t-e-r Pijoan’s report to ACM-NE) New Hampshire Coalition for Community Media recently adopted a new by-law allowing up to 3 alternate members to their board (previously there was only one). At their annual meeting, they: passed a budget of $8,750 which includes a scholarship budget of $1,000 and a NHCCM server usage budget […]
April in New York State
(adapted from Maryann Arrien’s report to ACM-NE) ACM New York’s six current board members had monthly meetings in February and March. We have started the work of our Public Policy Committee & Public Relations Committee and discussed plans for a video to be produced at a PEG center in either Westchester or NY City to further […]
VAN of Vermont – April 2016 report
(adapted from Patrick Cody’s report to ACM-NE) Comcast Certificate of Public Good The biggest piece of work undertaken by the Vermont Access Network (VAN) in the past few months is the review of Comcast’s Certificate of Public Good (CPG) renewal. In Vermont, a CPG is the franchise license that a utility or telecom company must […]