A Quieter Week

Our big production of the week was recording the Greenfield High School Music Department's Annual Holiday Concert. Around 4:15pm on Wednesday, Otis and Alicia headed over to the school to set up this three camera shoot. Unfortunately, after an hour and a half of setting up and running cables, they discovered that one video feed was unavailable so the event became a two camera shoot. Our volunteers Sam & Melissa were up to the challenge and we think the final product still looks great. If you couldn't attend the concert, or you want to hear it again, tune in to Cable Channel 15 tonight at 7PM, tomorrow afternoon at 1pm, or (for you night owls) 11PM on Sunday.

In other GCTV news, "Local Bias" returned to their regular production schedule this week---taping an interview with David Brock on Thursday morning. As Creator and Executive Producer of the show Drew Hutchison minimized his involvement, in order to concentrate on his duties as the film & television teacher at GHS, the rest of the cast and crew has been stepping up to fill in the gaps. This has meant recording the show at some odd times but guesthost Dr. Andrew Blais has found no shortage of guests willing to participate.

Whew! What a Whirlwind of a Week!

Continuing our theme from last week, a lot of work in our office revolved around Greenfield's Town Election on Tuesday. Monday was spent in frenzied activity putting the finishing touches on our on our website and pre-produced pieces. Owen & Simeon spent some time over at GHS, on Tuesday, talking to candidates and volunteers who were forming the gauntlet voters had to walk through before entering their polling place.

Election returns were delayed on Tuesday night because of a morning power failure at the polls and the breakdown of Precinct 2's vote tallying machine. Both of these technical issues combined to cause a large number of ballots to require hand counting and the unofficial totals weren't delivered to our studio until after 9PM.

Joe Gochinski & Drew Hutchison did a phenomenal job hosting our election returns show. They were informative and really integrated well with our pre-produced segments. GCTV's staff and volunteers would like to send up a shout out to Joe for providing snacks that also kept our energy up at the town council meeting the next night. Yummy!

The Greenfield Middle School Band's Spring Concert also took place on Wednesday night and we covered it too. Since it couldn't air live, it will air tonight at 7PM on Cable Channel 15.

Thursday night we were back out in the community broadcasting the Greenfield School Committee Meeting live from Greenfield High School. The staff who weren't working on that shoot spent the day cleaning up, helping producers edit their shows, and generally winding down.

Today has been less hectic so more cleaning up and organizing has been accomplished, along with some catching up on work that didn't get done over the last week and a half.

Make sure to check our Video on Demand player for anything you missed this week and tune in tonight for Sunday's GHS Graduation at 5PM.

Thanksgiving Traditions On GCTV

Thanks to Robin Mead of Montague Community Television and our own station manager, Scott MacPherson (who will not only be helping to film the event but who will be racing back to our studio afterwards to ensure it gets on the air), we will be broadcasting this year's Thanksgiving Day Football Game between Greenfield and Turners Falls High Schools even though it's not taking place here in Greenfield. That will air at 7PM on Thanksgiving Day followed by our other Turkey Day favorite, the public domain movie "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians". Don't miss a very young Pia Zadora's debut performance in this holiday classic. For more information on the movie, check out the top rated user comment at www.imdb.com.

Looking for the Greenfield Mayoral Debates or the Ways & Means Meeting?

Due to the large number of shoots taking place this week, and the annual Kiwanis auction that will be televised, live, from our studio on Wednesday, May 6th, and Thursday, May 7th, from 7PM to 9PM we will be airing the events as follows:

Tonight's debate will take place at Greenfield High School beginning at 6PM. GCTV will be there filming but the debate will be televised tomorrow night, May 5th, from 5PM to 7PM and at the same time on Friday, May 8th.

Tomorrow night's debate at the Masonic Hall-Republican Lodge (215 Munson Street) will also be filmed by GCTV but not aired live. It will air this Friday, May 8th, from 7PM to 9PM.

Wednesday night's Ways & Means committee meeting will be filmed at the Greenfield Youth Center (20 Sanderson Street) at 6PM and aired on Saturday, May 9th, at 1PM.

Wednesday night's Annual Spring Music Concert at Greenfield High School will be filmed beginning at 7PM and we will post an air date as soon as we have one.

Don't forget, most of these productions will also be available on our Video On Demand service at www.gctv.org within 24-48 hours of airing.

Greenfield High School Music Parents Telethon Tuesday!

This coming Tuesday, March 3rd, from 6PM to 9PM, Greenfield High School music students and their parents will be taking over our airwaves to raise money for the GHS music program. This telecast will feature live performances by GHS soloists, choirs, and bands under the direction of Paul Calcari. As in years past, the only way to see this concert is to watch it on GCTV. We will post the phone numbers you can use to call in a pledge soon.