Issuing Authority
Breanna Lungo Koehn, Mayor
85 George P. Hassett Drive
Medford MA 02155
RE: Cable Advisory Board
This article/essay is about the liaison to the people that the Advisory board should be.
Dear Issuing Authority Lungo-Koehn:
We have never had a liaison to the community that a Cable Advisory Board should be.
I want to offer my expertise as an outside consultant to direct an Advisory Board
and the TV station itself, looking at salaries, efficiency and what is best for the
citizens of Medford.
In 2005 I applied for the job of station manager of Medford Community Cablevision, Inc.
Instead the individuals who were clearly not qualified to run a station (the Mayor pulled the license after I led the opposition against having deficient board members ruin TV in Medford, airing color bars instead of programming)
TV3 hired a nice fellow (I still get along with him) who purportedly ran out of the station sobbing because he couldn't put a tripod together.
That was station management in 2015. It went downhill from there.
Talk about Black Lives Matter - the station lost its license because of strong allegations of racism.
Replacing him with a filmmaker from Rhode Island - who admitted under oath (when I prevailed against her in Superior Court) that her only experience (failed station manager Dawn Natalia) prior to getting hired was having produced one
show at public access in Worcester - of her husband cooking.
My experience started in 1979 in Somerville; my director at the time is today some big shot at HBO
While at TV3 Medford in 1995 I was hired by a national media company as Director of Research,
co-scripting the Paul Sorvino PBS special directed by Lou Reed's director Clark Santee!
They flew me to West Palm Beach, NYC, Seattle, Philadelphia...a little more experience, I'd say, than Dawn Natalia's one cooking show in Worcester TV. And that they paid for my flights around the country speaks volumes about my value and work ethic.
Of course McGlynn and his TV3 didn't want a professional who managed two AM radio stations and was consultant to the Program
Director of 93.7 WCGY as well as sales guy and producer of the #1 Sunday night program, Boston Music Showcase.
You can find my position as consultant to the PD in a Boston Globe book at the library, they
republish their key articles in books....whatever...
This article is about the liaison to the people that the Advisory board should be.
Mayor Mike McGlynn had a Cable Advisory Board infuriated with him.
I informed my friend Bob Skerry that the mayor had an Adcisory board with a member on it who had passed away.
Mr. Skerry is included in the bcc.
How can someone no longer with us be a liaison to the community?
Simple answer is McGlynn wanted to be that liaison...Comcast paying for McGlynn's golf expos and the lighting of the Christmas tree (I have the gory details from public records requests; consult the blog
Medford Information Central for more details on that.)
May 30 2018
Dear Citizens:
Fact: Mayor McGlynn had a deceased Medford resident on his phony Cable Advisory Board along with Bob Skerry, Richard Giovino, Richard Trotta. Mr. Skerry was furious with McGlynn for not taking the Advisory board seriously. How disrespectful to the family of Ray McDonald to see a deceased member of their family allegedly used as a board member on an ineffective entity. In fact, Richard Trotta resigned on the very day the Sec of State's office demanded he respond to my Public Records Request
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Mike
McGlynn ignored the advice of his own tribunal, not the Advisory board
but a tribunal of Fred Laskey, Allison Goldsberry and a Catholic priest
(George "Chip" Hines)
The tribunal suggested putting the station centrally located in Medford while McGlynn conspired against them
(shades of what he did to Michael Marks on the parking commission or something) and put the access at
the high school. Where he could keep an eye on things.
Shameful.
When
an elected official takes an oath of office, when a lawyer takes an
oath of office, they are required to abide by that oath.
They mayor needs to hire this professional.
Medford has only ONE creative person who has fought in court for Cable TV rights,
who shut down the deficient TV station, and who points out that the manager hired by
Stephanie Muccini-Burke, has failed to give the community the attention that he, Pat Gordon, spends
with most of his time and affections on - the government channel.
There has NEVER been access TV in Medford that really works.
A board member taking payments for "advertising" on a non-profit,
a fellow who attacked politicians who failed to hire his "services" -
questionable as they were - is not access TV
More like Vladmir Putin TV, offered by the fellow who named a school after his then-living father.
How that helped the community? Well, it was expensive and it didn't.
Medford has two choices: keep its head in the sand
vis-a-vis access issues, to the benefit
of Adam Knight, Rick Caraviello and few else...
or bring a professional onboard.
Remember, I'm the guy who personally videotaped meetings in Room 207 and other
areas of city hall and will put together a policy where ALL city hall meetings are taped
and aired on the cable channel.
You see, I did the heavy lifting first. The Council praises Pat Gordon for the hard
work and honest efforts that I pioneered.
And while praising Patrick Gordon and awarding him accolades he did not deserve,
the Zoom fizzled out (while he was accepting the award) and the contiguous channels
had downright awful audio.
I understand that some have jealousy over a man's life's work and veteran status,
and that some of those envious individuals vote for their own pay raise on a city council and don't want
much attention to how they conduct themselves
Well, it's not about them. It's about the citizens of the community.
I'm here to help.
The Mayor should hire me as a consultant to create a substantial advisory
board. Medford has never had one.
All due respect to the chair of Stephanie Burke's advisory board but he
was more interested in pushing his real estate business on cable TV
than helping citizens. I'm living proof of that.
Time to change things...for the better.
Time to change things...for the better.
Respectfully,
Joe Viglione
Cable Advisory Committee
Multiple available positions
The
Committee meets on an as-needed basis. For general information about
Cable Advisory Committees,
visit www.mass.gov/service-details/cable-advisory
https://www.mass.gov/service-details/cable-advisory-committees
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