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 […]
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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, […]
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 […]
FCC and Closed Captioning
At the Our Town conference in Boston last month, and in follow-up discussions online and by telephone, Alliance members and allies discussed the FCC’s Second Report and Order on Closed Captioning, released last February. Connecticut ACM explained to their members and friends this way. How will it work for PEG people in your states?
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 […]
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 & […]