New Access Station 6:30 PM tonight, City Council on 2/11/14

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MEDFORD MASSACHUSETTS
TO GO FROM WORST TO FIRST IN
PUBLIC ACCESS TELEVISION!

TONIGHT  6:30 PM 

  http://medford.patch.com/groups/joe-vigliones-blog/p/psa-new-tv-station--meeting-630-pm-medford-high-school-library

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Medford parents and brothers and sisters and cousins want to see the hockey games, soccer games, baseball game, basketball games, football games on public access TV.

Anyone who believes the community doesn't want this platform to preserve the sports of our city does not have an athlete in their home participating in Medford sports.

MEMBERSHIP RETENTION
Tony Bova's Hockey Night in Medford was an essential and important program.  We need Mr. Bova or someone with Bova's passion, to help us put a new TV station together.  Why did Mr. Bova leave in the first place?  We have to understand why members left and how to retain good, solid members who generate good, clean programming.

Kitty Connection debuted on a show, JimmyMorse.com.  Jimmy brought Marie Mazzeo to my show, then taped in Winthrop.  When I tape for Kitty Connection it is usually to show the cute faces of the doggies and kitties in need of a new home.

This important work was stalled in the past.  It needs to be reactivated.

Father "Chip" Hines, Allison Goldsberry and Fred Laskey are good people who are helping us get our new station together.

Moving forward means not touching the slippery slope of the past.  In order to move forward the new members need to be free from the difficulties and the uncomfortable situations that led to a highly respected retired judge determining as Joseph Fortunato did, that Medford was experiencing "Private Public Access."

Why did we lose members?  And how do we get the good people back?

"Tony Bova was a bigger loss than the community realizes" John Byers told this Patch blog at around 4:15 PM today.

"When you lose Hockey Night in Medford, you lose a vital tool to promote the league.  It scares these other sports leagues off from being part of public access because they see what happens to a well-known person who is well-liked in the city" Byers continued. 

John felt that the moving of Hockey Night in Medford from 4 PM - 6 PM to 4 AM - 6 AM, you lose an audience. 

We, as an access community, want the return of Hockey Night in Medford.    Mr Byers felt that shows were chased away - as his was - so that the old station could promote itself over the community.  Moving forward means addressing the not-so-helpful policies of the past, and starting fresh with all new people.  Attracting new people who will add to our community's value.  We can be the best station in the Commonwealth - and one of the best in America - not just with rhetoric, but with programming that backs it up.

Tonight.  Medford High School Library.  6:30 PM

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Author Joe Viglione has about 1,000 hours of community programming. He started hosting in 1979 and has lobbied the City Council, the Department of Telecommunication, cable tv provider hearings and other entities.  For about twenty years he has lectured at college radio conferences and was program director of two AM radio stations, produced at the 50,000 watt 93.7 and has had a variety of radio shows on a number of local stations, in addition to his work as producer and host of Visual Radio.