We had a large audience for Wednesday night's Greenfield Town Council Meeting. Residents gathered to watch their councilors debate changes to the solar farm contract, disposition of the town farm, repairs to the middle school roof, and funding for additional student transportation. You can watch the whole meeting for yourself tonight at midnight on Cable Channel 15 or look for it as part of our Video on Demand Player early next week.
The Greenfield School Committee has changed their meetings from the 2nd & 4th Thursdays of each month to the 1st & 3rd Thursdays so we recorded their short meeting at the high school this week and there won't be a meeting on the 25th. You can watch the latest session on Cable Channel 15 tomorrow at 1pm and again at midnight on the 24th. It will also be available as part of our Video on Demand Player early next week.
Finally, our new website is getting closer to launch. We'll be doing a soft reveal of it to our board members and some of our producers next week and we've planned the grand opening to coincide with the Franklin County Fair Parade on September 8th. We'll be telling you more about all of that in next week's blog post so be sure to check back.
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
Politics, Fireworks, Rain Plans, & News
At Noon today the folks who were elected/re-elected to the Greenfield Town Council, school committee, and various trustee positions will be sworn into office during a ceremony on the town common. Our station manager will be there so that we can bring you the event in its entirety next week. If it rains, though the forecast says it won't, the swearing in will take place in our studio at 393 Main Street, 3rd. Floor.
Immediately following the ceremony, the council and school committee will hold reorganizational meetings to choose their leadership for the coming year. The meetings will take place on the 2nd floor of town hall, in the meeting room, unless it rains. In that case, they too will occur in our studio.
Rain plans have also been made for Greenfield's annual fireworks display on Saturday night. In the event of rain, the celebration will be moved to Sunday. If you want more info. on the festivities, check out the first short piece that our new part-time staffer Ian created for our website. You'll find it at the top of the homepage, simply click on the "Fourth of July" tab.
Another addition to our personnel roster also produced his first news story this week. Please join us in congratulating new intern Dan for his interviews with college students participating in a New England Climate Summer bicycling tour. You can check out his work on our homepage as well.
Finally, we'd like to remind you about two upcoming office closures. We'll be off on Monday, July 4th, for the Independence Day holiday and we'll be closed Tuesday through Friday of the following week for renovations. From July 12th to July 15th new carpeting will be installed throughout the facility while our staff cleans, organizes, and paints. Those of you familiar with the condition of our floors know that this is a very good thing. In addition, all of these improvements will help to free up more space for producers to work in and increase efficiency.
Immediately following the ceremony, the council and school committee will hold reorganizational meetings to choose their leadership for the coming year. The meetings will take place on the 2nd floor of town hall, in the meeting room, unless it rains. In that case, they too will occur in our studio.
Rain plans have also been made for Greenfield's annual fireworks display on Saturday night. In the event of rain, the celebration will be moved to Sunday. If you want more info. on the festivities, check out the first short piece that our new part-time staffer Ian created for our website. You'll find it at the top of the homepage, simply click on the "Fourth of July" tab.
Another addition to our personnel roster also produced his first news story this week. Please join us in congratulating new intern Dan for his interviews with college students participating in a New England Climate Summer bicycling tour. You can check out his work on our homepage as well.
Finally, we'd like to remind you about two upcoming office closures. We'll be off on Monday, July 4th, for the Independence Day holiday and we'll be closed Tuesday through Friday of the following week for renovations. From July 12th to July 15th new carpeting will be installed throughout the facility while our staff cleans, organizes, and paints. Those of you familiar with the condition of our floors know that this is a very good thing. In addition, all of these improvements will help to free up more space for producers to work in and increase efficiency.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Neither Snow, Nor Ice....
Well, a couple of snowstorms can't keep a good station down. Despite the weather, a lot of work got done around here this week: our former intern, Simeon, has returned to GCTV as a volunteer producing news stories for our website; we've been hosting a one-week high-school intern who's been working on a piece that we plan to upload to our homepage either today or Monday; Jamie Berger of "The Thrive Project" sat down with Dr. Andrew Blais for an in-depth conversation on "Local Bias"; Greenfield's Town Council held a joint meeting with the school committee as part of their regularly scheduled meeting in our studio on Wednesday night; and, finally, the producer of the "Sy's Fund" documentary used one of our editing suites to re-shape her program.
Those of you who watched our coverage of the town council meeting may have noticed a couple of new things during Wednesday night's broadcast. When we re-did our control room last year, our new switcher came with built in graphics. As everyone was getting used to the new cameras and other equipment, we decided to continue using our old graphic computer for the time being. Now, however, we've begun using the new system which is proving to be more convenient, more flexible, and faster. We've also upgraded our set pieces for local government meetings and, though we haven't quite finished rolling them out, viewers got a look at them for the first time during the meeting because that's what the Greenfield School Committee was sitting behind. The new tables are easier to move and store, throw less glare into the cameras, and provide more convenient access to microphones.
On a programming note this week, we hope you enjoyed the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day related shows we've been airing. Programs like "The Life & Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.", Greenfield Community College's "Living the Dream" ceremony, and "I Have a Dream" celebrate and honor this important American. If you missed them, we'll be replaying GCC's "The Life & Death of Martin Luther King, Jr." at 3pm on Tuesday.
Those of you who watched our coverage of the town council meeting may have noticed a couple of new things during Wednesday night's broadcast. When we re-did our control room last year, our new switcher came with built in graphics. As everyone was getting used to the new cameras and other equipment, we decided to continue using our old graphic computer for the time being. Now, however, we've begun using the new system which is proving to be more convenient, more flexible, and faster. We've also upgraded our set pieces for local government meetings and, though we haven't quite finished rolling them out, viewers got a look at them for the first time during the meeting because that's what the Greenfield School Committee was sitting behind. The new tables are easier to move and store, throw less glare into the cameras, and provide more convenient access to microphones.
On a programming note this week, we hope you enjoyed the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day related shows we've been airing. Programs like "The Life & Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.", Greenfield Community College's "Living the Dream" ceremony, and "I Have a Dream" celebrate and honor this important American. If you missed them, we'll be replaying GCC's "The Life & Death of Martin Luther King, Jr." at 3pm on Tuesday.
Friday, March 12, 2010
It's Been One of Those Weeks...
So, we have good news and we have bad news. The good news is that we now have two presentations available online dealing with the Stretch Code as it relates to the Town of Greenfield becoming a greener community (in the "Local Government" category in our Video on Demand player) and we were able to air most of last night's Greenfield School Committee Meeting live (after not being able to go live with Tuesday night's Stretch Code workshop). The bad news is that, due to several technical glitches, the March 9th Stretch Code presentation is missing its first fifteen minutes and we may not be able to air the school committee meeting this weekend or get it online until next week. The meeting's video file was corrupted and it will take some time to figure out how much of it we can save. We are working hard on it and taking steps to ensure that future shoots go more smoothly. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we will stop feeding the gremlins after midnight.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Town Meetings From This Week
***All the meetings are now up.***
Due to the number, length, and variety of locations involved with the productions of town meetings this week it is taking us a little longer than normal to get them all up on our Video on Demand service. The School Committee Meeting from November 12th is up in its entirety. The School Committee Meeting from November 17th and the Town Council Meetings from November 18th & 19th are in the process of being converted (we have to split them up into hour long segments in order to fit) and parts of them will be up by midday on Monday. We hope to have them all up by Tuesday. Thanks for your patience and understanding in this matter.
Due to the number, length, and variety of locations involved with the productions of town meetings this week it is taking us a little longer than normal to get them all up on our Video on Demand service. The School Committee Meeting from November 12th is up in its entirety. The School Committee Meeting from November 17th and the Town Council Meetings from November 18th & 19th are in the process of being converted (we have to split them up into hour long segments in order to fit) and parts of them will be up by midday on Monday. We hope to have them all up by Tuesday. Thanks for your patience and understanding in this matter.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Franklin County Fair Parade Coverage
Don't forget to tune in on Thursday, September 10th, at 5:30PM for LIVE coverage of this year's Franklin County Fair Parade. Our usual hosts, Russ Brown ("Dukes of Sports") & Tom Dillon (Dillon Chevrolet), will be joined this year by Russ' new co-host on "Dukes of Sports", Marisa Dalmaso-Rode. Marisa adds her winning personality to the great commentary by Russ & Tom.
NEW THIS YEAR! Check back here tomorrow for EXCLUSIVE, WEB ONLY, CONTENT from the fair parade. "Local Bias" producer & host, Drew Hutchison, will be walking the parade route and bringing us interesting stories and pictures from inside the parade itself.
Finally, once the parade has concluded we will join the Greenfield School Committee Meeting, which starts at 6PM, live---already in progress.
NEW THIS YEAR! Check back here tomorrow for EXCLUSIVE, WEB ONLY, CONTENT from the fair parade. "Local Bias" producer & host, Drew Hutchison, will be walking the parade route and bringing us interesting stories and pictures from inside the parade itself.
Finally, once the parade has concluded we will join the Greenfield School Committee Meeting, which starts at 6PM, live---already in progress.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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.
The School Committee Meeting scheduled for this Thursday, June 11th, has been cancelled.
Monday, April 27, 2009
We have Video On Demand!
So, you only caught part of Drew Hutchison's interview with Governor Deval Patrick on "Local Bias"? Did you miss last week's Ways & Means meeting? Perhaps you decided to enjoy the beautiful weather outside instead of attending the latest School Committee meeting? Well, that doesn't have to mean that you aren't informed. You can now watch GCTV programs on your computer, whenever you want! Go to www.gctv.org/VOD. We will make every effort to get meetings up within 24-48 hours after they occur.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Change of Time & Location for School Committee Meeting!
Tomorrow (Thursday, 2/26) night's Greenfield School Committee Meeting has been changed to a Public Forum followed by a School Committee Meeting. The event will begin at 7PM (instead of 6PM) and take place at Greenfield Middle School (not at GCTV).
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