Thursday, November 25, 2010
Happy Thanksgiving!
You'll notice some special holiday programming on Channel 15 today. We begin our tribute to Thanksgiving with "Bones, Stones, and Names: A Native American Perspective on Discovery and Thanksgiving" at 2pm. If you haven't caught this interesting and informative program yet, make sure to tune in. At 6pm you can enjoy the sounds of the season with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's "Music and the Spoken Word: Songs of Thanksgiving". Of course we'll be bringing you the annual Greenfield High School vs. Turners Falls High School Thanksgiving Day Football Game at 7pm, preceded (at 6:30pm) by a special episode of "The Dukes of Sports" that was filmed on the field prior to the game beginning this morning. Turkey Day Football, according to our station manager, should always be followed by a classic (in our case, public domain) holiday movie because this special day kicks off a season of celebrations. To that end, we bring you, (drum roll please) "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians"! Enjoy, eat lots of turkey (or Tofurkey), and have a lot to be thankful for.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Another Busy Week
Turkey Day is coming up and we'll tell you more about our plans for it later in this post. In the meantime let us take a moment to reflect on this week's events.
On Tuesday night, the Greening Greenfield Energy Committee (GGEC) held another of their workshops in our studio. This one, on reducing home energy costs, featured speakers from MassSave, Community Action, the Town of Greenfield, and Franklin County Home Care who introduced attendees to free programs, grants, and low interest loans. In the category of "It's a Small World", the evening was moderated by GGEC member, and WMCB host of "Various Voices", Daria Fisk. The audience came away with many good resources and enjoyed the refreshments provided by GGEC volunteers. If you missed it, be sure to watch it online as part of our Video on Demand Player at GCTV.org. It can be found in the "Special Features" category.
Another program available to watch online is the Greenfield Town Council Meeting that we broadcast live from our studio on Wednesday night. Once again the councilors moved through their business with thought and humor. They quickly dealt with issues relating to Greenfield's 2011 Fiscal Year Budget Tax Classifications and then spent quite a bit of time looking at a proposal for an Agricultural Preservation Restriction on the town farm. Though the latter matter was tabled until the next meeting, in order to receive more information from the town planning department, our local government representatives were able to disagree with each other and yet make jokes at times. This video is in the "Local Government" category and Thursday night's school committee meeting will be joining it soon.
Finally, we get to our T-day sneak peek. We alternate filming the annual Greenfield High School vs. Turners Falls High School Thanksgiving Day Football Game with Montague Community Television. They film it when TFHS hosts it and we record it when it's one of GHS' home games. It's our turn this year which means that Russ Brown and Mike Cadran of "The Dukes of Sports" will be doing a pre-game show on the field that will be full of fun facts about this historic local rivalry and what to look for this year. Keep an eye out on our homepage on Monday afternoon for a few words from Mike and Russ as they get ready for this great event. If you can't be there in person, the game will be broadcast on Cable Channel 15 beginning at 6:30pm on Thanksgiving. Be sure sure to check back here on Thanksgiving morning for a special blog post regarding other traditional holiday programming.
On Tuesday night, the Greening Greenfield Energy Committee (GGEC) held another of their workshops in our studio. This one, on reducing home energy costs, featured speakers from MassSave, Community Action, the Town of Greenfield, and Franklin County Home Care who introduced attendees to free programs, grants, and low interest loans. In the category of "It's a Small World", the evening was moderated by GGEC member, and WMCB host of "Various Voices", Daria Fisk. The audience came away with many good resources and enjoyed the refreshments provided by GGEC volunteers. If you missed it, be sure to watch it online as part of our Video on Demand Player at GCTV.org. It can be found in the "Special Features" category.
Another program available to watch online is the Greenfield Town Council Meeting that we broadcast live from our studio on Wednesday night. Once again the councilors moved through their business with thought and humor. They quickly dealt with issues relating to Greenfield's 2011 Fiscal Year Budget Tax Classifications and then spent quite a bit of time looking at a proposal for an Agricultural Preservation Restriction on the town farm. Though the latter matter was tabled until the next meeting, in order to receive more information from the town planning department, our local government representatives were able to disagree with each other and yet make jokes at times. This video is in the "Local Government" category and Thursday night's school committee meeting will be joining it soon.
Finally, we get to our T-day sneak peek. We alternate filming the annual Greenfield High School vs. Turners Falls High School Thanksgiving Day Football Game with Montague Community Television. They film it when TFHS hosts it and we record it when it's one of GHS' home games. It's our turn this year which means that Russ Brown and Mike Cadran of "The Dukes of Sports" will be doing a pre-game show on the field that will be full of fun facts about this historic local rivalry and what to look for this year. Keep an eye out on our homepage on Monday afternoon for a few words from Mike and Russ as they get ready for this great event. If you can't be there in person, the game will be broadcast on Cable Channel 15 beginning at 6:30pm on Thanksgiving. Be sure sure to check back here on Thanksgiving morning for a special blog post regarding other traditional holiday programming.
Friday, November 12, 2010
A Quieter Week
It was nice to get a chance to breathe around here. We only had one big production this week in Wednesday night's Special Town Council Meeting. If you are interested in how the citizens of Greenfield treat each other, and/or what to do with the Town Farm, be sure to check out that meeting on our Video on Demand Player. Next week's meeting (which will be broadcast live beginning at 7pm on Wednesday 11/17) will have even more information about the farm proposal with a PowerPoint presentation by Greenfield's Director of Planning & Development Eric Twarog.
Next week will also feature a new episode of "Local Bias" premiering on Cable Channel 15 at 5:30pm on Wednesday. It was recorded this morning when Daniel Brown returned to our studio to be interviewed by guest host Dr. Andrew Blais about a range of political issues.
Next week will also feature a new episode of "Local Bias" premiering on Cable Channel 15 at 5:30pm on Wednesday. It was recorded this morning when Daniel Brown returned to our studio to be interviewed by guest host Dr. Andrew Blais about a range of political issues.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Weekly Wrap-up (Of Last Week)
So, it turns out that our power issues on Thursday were due to the storm. As some of you already know, several power lines came down on Davis Street and the electric company needed to turn off our power in order to fix them. We lost power completely about two minutes after our prior post went live and we had put a notice about our signal interruption on our websites. Power was restored late Thursday night but the outage made us unable to share our weekly update with you until now:
Well the Rag Shag, Masquerade Party, and election are over and we're taking some time to catch up on things around here. If you missed Greenfield's annual Halloween celebration, or our Masquerade Party, be sure to click on the links in this post to see pictures, video, and more.
Regarding the elections, we are continuing to refine our process for gathering and announcing results. We took information in faster and more smoothly than we have the previous two times but higher than expected voter turnout delayed the reporting in some towns. We will keep on improving our ability to provide you with answers as soon as possible after the polls close. We would also like to extend a big thank you to producer Joe Gochinski, of "The Western Mass Democrat", without whom we would not have had footage of Denise Andrews' victory speech.
That's it for last week. We'll see you on Friday. :)
Well the Rag Shag, Masquerade Party, and election are over and we're taking some time to catch up on things around here. If you missed Greenfield's annual Halloween celebration, or our Masquerade Party, be sure to click on the links in this post to see pictures, video, and more.
Regarding the elections, we are continuing to refine our process for gathering and announcing results. We took information in faster and more smoothly than we have the previous two times but higher than expected voter turnout delayed the reporting in some towns. We will keep on improving our ability to provide you with answers as soon as possible after the polls close. We would also like to extend a big thank you to producer Joe Gochinski, of "The Western Mass Democrat", without whom we would not have had footage of Denise Andrews' victory speech.
That's it for last week. We'll see you on Friday. :)
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Power & Signal Outage
At 4:45pm today the power went out in half of our building. What that means is that, as this is being typed, parts of our office have no power at all and other parts have partial power. Not only is this weird, but the outage knocked GCTV, WMCB, and our livestream off the air as well as cutting off our phones. In an even stranger twist, we have access to one of our two internet lines so we can still be reached by email. At first, we assumed this problem is due to the storm but Philippe went downstairs and discovered the Greenfield Fire Department checking things out in the basement. We'll let you know as soon as we know what's going on.
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