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. :)

All Kinds of Stuff is Going On

It's been pretty busy around here lately. In fact, while our station manager was on vacation last week we partied, I mean worked, really hard. Seriously though, many of the candidates that you will be voting on in September's primary elections have been through our office in the last two weeks and you can see the result by going to http://www.gctv.org/StatePrimaries.html.

Joe Gochinski, host of The Western Mass Democrat, has also been hard at work doing short interviews with Democrats participating in contested races for Northwestern District Attorney (DA), State Representative for the Second Berkshire District, and State Representative for the Second Franklin District. He will be editing those tomorrow and hopes to have them available for viewing soon.

Yesterday the host of Franklin County Matters, Dave Roulston, moderated a debate between the two DA candidates and that is already available to watch online as part of our Video on Demand Player.

Meanwhile, a small group from Community Action Youth Programs has been working diligently for the last few weeks producing some short pieces about racism.

Whew, that's a lot of good, locally produced, television!

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.

Have you voted today?

Make sure you vote today and then tune in tonight at 8PM to catch our LIVE election results show hosted by Joe Gochinski. It will be rebroadcast tomorrow at 11AM if you miss it.

The School Committee Meeting scheduled for this Thursday, June 11th, has been cancelled.

Election Coverage Mon & Tues

If you missed any of our 2009 Greenfield election coverage so far, don't fret! From 12AM to 12PM on Monday, June 8th we will be re-running almost all of the debates & interviews that were taped this political season in addition to some of our regular Monday programming. Then tune in on Tuesday, June 9th, at 8PM for our annual election results show hosted by Joe Gochinski (producer & host of Western Massachusetts Democrat). Haven't had enough of local politics? The election results show will be re-broadcast on Wednesday, June 10th, at 11AM. In addition, Susan Laing's new show "Think Out Loud---Biomass" will re-air on Tuesday at 5PM, "Biomass or Buy-a-mess" will re-air on Wednesday at 12AM, and the Greening Greenfield Energy Committee's "Biomass 101" will be re-airing soon. Enjoy!