Issuing Authority
Medford City Hall
Medford MA 02155
re:GEORGIA AND INDIANA MUNICIPALITIES SUING FOR REGULATORY FEES (scroll down)
284 Days to Election 2021 January 22, 2021 to November 2, 2021
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The job of a station manager is to also protect the funding, the franchise fee. I would be happy to help the mayor, the issuing authority, in that regard.
AS manager of a Public Access Media Center: Magazine, Radio and Television, let me be clear how hard this producer would fight for ALL the monies owed the city.
Breanna is an attorney. Yours truly knows a bit about the law. The two of us would be formidable in getting the monies owed to the city of Medford. But, alas,
Medford has been SO out of compliance with its obligations to citizens, from the Brady-infested police department to a housing authority that is the laughingstock of HUD,
public access - with its ability to shine a light on such conduct - is kept away from producers with a shield of protection that is the envy of Fort Knox.
Oath violations by Lungo Koehn, Michael Marks, George Scarpelli, Paulette Van der Kloot, the whole lot of them, are the continued deterioration of citizen rights..
From Neil Osborne to Police Chief Buckley you'll get no help from self-serving individuals masquerading as "public servants."
Halloween is over, people, try reading the oath of office and stop the censorship.
There is money out there for Medford, yet a clueless cable advisory board isn't even thinking in that direction, are they?
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion;
blah blah blah
Constitution of United States of America 1789 (rev. 1992)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
HA ! HA HA HA HA HA....PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE....A CORI CHECK FOR YOUR GRANDMOTHER TO USE AN ACCESS TV STATION THAT SHE HELPS PAY FOR IS ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
MARK FUMLEY'S ...OOOPS...RUMLEY'S DISGUSTING AND REPREHENSIBLE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ARE THE GHOST AFTER HIS RETIREMENT THAT HURTS MEDFORD. HARMS FREE SPEECH, AND INTENTIONALLY MAKES IT EASY FOR PATRICK GORDON TO LIMIT SPEECH, CHILL IT, AND HARASS PEOPLE LIKE ME WITH A SNIDE COMMENT
THAT GORDON MADE AT AN ADVISORY MEETING.
THE KID IS NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME OTHER THAN A GLORIFIED SWITCHER FOR THE CITY COUNCIL, AND EVEN THEN THE ZOOM IS FIZZLING OUT AND THE CONTIGUOUS CHANNELS HAVE POOR AUDIO THANKS TO MR. GORDON, WHOSE RESUME' DOES NOT SHOW QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED TO OPERATE A FULL STATION.
This person has managed two radio stations, been on the board of directors of a third, and has experience spanning forty two years in public access and forty three years in radio.
For example: the silent GOVERNMENT CHANNEL could have music that I can get the rights to with NO FEE to the city of Medford. Free music to enhance the channel,
which is still as dull as it was in 1995 and before and after
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Breanna Lungo-Koehn, like her predecessors, holds tight to her power as "issuing authority" and access TV in Medford continues to be the joke that George Manfra (Malden Access TV)
said would never, ever be repaired. "It wasn't set up correctly at the beginning" Manfra told me (paraphrased.)
Well, there is ONE person in this region that can put a spectacular station together instead of having some kid from Georgetown drive down here as glorified technician accepting a phony award
from the likes of town reprobate Richard F. Caraviello and his gang of mercenaries called the Medford City Council. A useless crew of incompetents stealing 200k a year from unsuspecting
residents who are under the delusion that these are public servants.
We haven't seen Ben Brown or his successor, Patrick Gordon, fight for the government access television in Medford that they feign is actually public access.
As the person who shut down the deficient Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. and who put in the sole proposal to Mayor McGlynn to operate cable, Community Media Medford, it is highly disappointing
that Breanna Lungo Koehn and her two predecessors - Stephanie Muccini-Burke and Michael J. McGlynn, have shown a catastrophic violation of their oath of office in this regard.
Do you really think Patrick Gordon (or Ben Brown before him) have the intelligence to read the trade papers, get the trade papers for the access TV office, have any clue about what is really going on?
Gordon has failed to operate Twitter, Zoom and contiguous channels, you think he knows what a trade paper is?
1)This writer is diligently seeking the missing funds from Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. Over 38K noted in the Medford Transcript. Allegedly, that's the tip of the iceberg. And what about the
statute of limitations with Maura Healey's Division of Public Charities dragging its feet? This is as bad as the city council voting for its own paycheck. This is pork and waste in Medford while your taxes
go up at an exponential rate, in my opinion.
2)This producer has attended hearings from Burlington to Boston on cable access issues. I've forgotten more about these meetings I've attended through the decades than Gabby Follet Sumney
or Jack McGoldrick or anyone else on the sham of a "cable advisory board" will ever learn.
While a deficient city council "praises" Pat Gordon for the work that I did filming / taping Room 207 and other Medford meetings outside of council chambers, the real public access can be found on a popular blog.
Taping ancillary meetings at a city hall is something that I established before cameras were put in Medford city hall rooms like 207 (something I lobbied for before anyone else; I was doing this in Woburn in the 1990s.
In fact, while taping the Cable Advisory Board a fellow from another room walked in and said "What a great idea. Taping public meetings."
Duh.
At the Woburn cable advisory board the chair said "I don't think Mayor Dever wants this meeting taped." Ahem.
Sound like Medford? My reply
"Oh, I'm SURE Mayor Dever wants this meeting on tape."
Mayor Dever bucked the system and put my show on the air (notice how the outside agitators are always censored - in violation of the oath of office) ...the Mayor's daughter went to her father for me
and VOILA - on the front page of the Woburn Advocate in huge letters MAYOR DEVER PUTS VIGLIONE BACK ON THE AIR (paraphrased.)
Attorney David Skerry, cousin-by-marriage to McGlynn, was indignant over the headline and vowed that wouldn't happen in Medford.
So I shut Medford Community Cablevision, Inc. down.
HEY PATRICK GORDON, WANT TO HIJACK MORE OF MY IDEAS?
WHEN YOU CANNOT EVEN OPERATE TWITTER PROPERLY...
Will Breanna go after Hulu, etc. for the franchise fee? Can we do that in Massachusetts (which I believe we can,) and if so, why aren't we?
Because your mayor and city council would rather fracture their oath of office than actually have an open and free access television station. Shame on all of them.
HERE'S A NEW ARTICLE FROM NEXT TV
GEORGIA AND INDIANA MUNICIPALITIES SUING FOR REGULATORY FEES
The fight to make streaming video companies like Netflix pay the same local 5% regulatory fees already paid by cable companies still in the TV/video business is picking up steam.
Three Georgia municipalities have sued Netflix, Hulu and Disney, seeking to collect millions of dollars in fees dating back several years.
The suit, first reported by the Atlanta Business Journal, and filed by the counties of Gwinnett and Athens-Clark, as well as the city of Brookhaven, also names satellite TV operators DirecTV and Dish Network as defendants. https://www.nexttv.com/news/netflix-hulu-disney-sued-again-over-cable-franchise-fees?utm_source=SmartBrief&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=C74FC4FA-5D4D-4151-8915-3043BA411DBE&utm_content=1460483F-A045-4258-A224-2F57CA06632F
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Breanna, when you sell the world "community," "integrity," "transparency" and fail to implement those noble ideas, you ring as hollow as disgraced and impeached Donald J. Trump.
Do you really want that for your legacy?
Don't go running to David Rodrigues...as usual, lame hires from Georgetown and Peabody are not mentally equipped to do the job that 60,000 or so residents deserve.
Want me to write "Respectfully" ? Do your job
Call me...lunch is on you, the building of a real TV / Radio station, leave that up to me
The adult in the room.
Joe Viglione
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