Letter to Brooks Estate re: Access TV

COUNTDOWN TO COMCAST CONTRACT
56 weeks 4 days, ten hours
http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?year=2015&month=04&hour=09&min=00&sec=00&p0=43&msg=Medf...

http://medford.patch.com/groups/joe-vigliones-blog/p/brooks-estate-needs-the-chevalier-needs-channel-3-needs-the-brooks-estate-needs

14-298 Be It Resolved that the Mayor's response comments to the council regarding the former TV-3 be discussed.

Tom Lincoln
Brooks Estate
P.O. Box 328
Medford, MA 02155
Dear Mr. Lincoln:

While the city of Los Angeles, California is screening local television on the Metro bus system
http://out-the-window.org/bus-screenings-june-13-19-launch-mobile-community-tv-network/

We in Medford want to help the Brooks Estate by working with yours and other groups to ask City Hall to give us the funding for a Television Bus, a temporary home for the new Channel 3.

A temporary bus can pull up to the Chevalier Theater, the Field of Dreams or the Brooks Estate and tape new shows which allow a variety of voices to discuss local events.

A temporary "Channel 3" on a bus would be a perfect complement to the new station, wherever we choose to build our new public access station.

In the coming days letters will be written to the arts community, to notable Medford residents, to people in the world of access TV to get the word out.

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SOME IMPORTANT DATES

April 15, 2015 is 13 months from this Saturday.  That's ostensibly when the City of Medford's agreement with Comcast ends.  It is vitally important that Mayor McGlynn put a Cable TV Commission together - separate from the three-person Cable Access TV Committee - to explore how to grandfather access television in to the new agreement, and to sign a new agreement sooner than later.

56 weeks 4 days, ten hours
http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?year=2015&month=04&hour=09&min=00&sec=00&p0=43&msg=Medf...

On April 1, 2014 it will be a year since color bars went up on Channel 3, and a blank screen on the Medford access channel on Verizon. So for a year cable TV subscribers have been paying into a system and getting nothing for their dollar.

On Tuesday evening, March 18, 2014, this writer will roll out a new plan for access television in Medford.

This can be of great benefit to the Brooks Estate in your quest for funding, sponsorship and outreach.  Having a public access station to get the word out about your non-profit group is just one reason why the new TV station needs the support of those involved in the Brooks Estate.