158,210
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.