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The 1st annual Media Resource Expo will be held Tuesday, October 27th at the Holiday Inn in Boxborough, MA. New England’s only regional Expo featuring all the best and latest in broadcast, film, instructional media, and communication, along with the manufacturers, resellers and integrators that bring it all to life. For more info and registration Register Here!
Are you bringing your Mobile Production Vehicle to the ACM-NE Region Conference in Hartford, CT? Want to showcase our vehicle to other conference attendees? Please notify Debby Rogers at deb@fctv.org and let her know what day(s) your vehicle will be on-site. We are trying to secure space and want to make sure we know who […]
Frank Facchini, executive director of Southeastern Connecticut Television, Inc., was awarded the ACM-NE scholarship to attend the national conference in Pasadena this past summer. After a process nearly a decade long, Southeastern (SEC-TV) finally achieved the formal status of Community Access Provider in April 2014. SEC-TV has only one other employee and serves five towns […]
by Sally Hebert (9/14/15) for CTAM Michael Wassennaur, the ACM President, attended our year-end meeting in June in Belfast. He spoke to the members regarding the importance of the national organization. P-E-T-E-R Pijoan gave a demonstration for broadcasting. It was a very interesting meeting. CTAM has a new board member, Donna Fisoli, from Harpswell. Welcome […]
by Keith Thibault (9/11/2015) ACM national website The ACM National Board met in person at the National Conference on August 11. Our next meeting via conference call will be September 15. I will have a more updated report following that meeting. Briefly in the meantime: Public Policy The FCC is still welcoming comments as it […]
by Patrick Cody ♦ More about the Vermont Access Network is at their website. Data-Driven Protection? Vermont’s unique PEG Access annual reporting requirements may be leading the way towards protecting future funding. Since the inception of VT Public Service Board Rule 8, the rule governing cable television in the state, in 1994, PEG stations have been required to […]
Obituary notice for Don Berman was published in The Beverly Citizen. Camille Bartlett of Peabody Access Television recalled: “Don Berman was really the founding father of BevCam and a strong advocate for public access. He was always very helpful to me in Peabody, even showing his support during our ascertainment.” Mr. Berman was the 2009 […]
The Public Access TV Corporation of Great Neck, New York (PATV), will receive a $500 grant to support the Playwrights Showcase in Lake Success. Lake Success is one of 14 unincorporated villages within the Great Neck/North Shore community served by PATV. This event is an annual presentation of original one-act-plays followed by a Question & […]
There are probably PEG operations that are smaller than ours: One G channel, one part-time coordinator, camera operators recruited from the high school, and a oversight commission of 5 volunteers. We submitted work twice to the regional video festival in past years, and the staff (such as it is) has been to watch the awards […]
Mark your calendars for an afternoon adventure into the Community Vault, a special theatrical experience of the best archive and contemporary videos produced by community TV stations and local filmmakers. We have unearthed footage, both familiar and weird, retro dance parties of the 1990’s, to narrative shorts from the 2000’s. It is truly a mosaic […]
