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20 September, 2013
Honorable Michael J. McGlynn, Mayor
85
George P. Hassett Drive
Medford, MA 02155
Dear Mayor McGlynn,
Since December 18th of 2012, the city of Medford has been without
Public Access Television/ Medford Community Cablevision, also known as TV3. On
December 17th, the last live show aired (the Ziggy show) and after this date,
until or about March 31st of 2013, all that was available on MCC were
rebroadcast shows and many where you were appearing, and in an election year. Since
that time, all that has been shown is a muted color bar!
In Judge Marie O. Jackson Thompson’s, “Hearing
Results, Findings and Recommendations”, dated 5 August, 2009, it states, on
page 11, paragraph 1…Whether the City can
make a substantial case to remove the MCC remains a decision for the city of
Medford. However, for these reasons, set forth above, a preliminary notice of
“no confidence” should be filed with the Board as a formal notice of
deficiencies in their contractual responsibilities. Should the Board continue
to be noncompliant, the City may wish to take additional actions to terminate
the MCC contract.
At this time
or anytime in the near future, the City may wish to request that the Office of
the Attorney General and/or the Secretary of State investigate MCC.
Mr. Mayor you are the issuing authority and sole
responsible party, and correct this problem. You have allowed Comcast
and Verizon to continue taking monies from the subscribers/ratepayers every
month without consideration thereby allowing no public access without penalty
to the tv-3 management who oversees public access cablecasting.
Recently you withheld a quarterly payment of
$39,000 to MCC after receiving subscriber’s monies from Comcast and Verizon. You
gave the impression that if tv-3 did not shape up and adhere to their contract responsibilities,
you were to take further action.
You are well aware of tv-3's president, station
manager and paid computer consultant/former board member and their ongoing internet
blogs and disgusting commentaries. They have besmirched, humiliated, hijacked personal proprietary pictures and denigrated not only you, but also your
budget director, the city solicitor, particular city council members and
Medford citizens who dare question them about their financials, spending,
minutes of their meetings and the makeup of the board of directors.
With special congressional and city elections just
six weeks away and by your inaction to have a public access station up and
running as the subscribers have been paying for, you have precluded all
aspiring candidates for elective office in the city of Medford. You are, in essence, denying the
paying public access to that which is ours. The viewing public has, for many
years, looked forward to seeing the political ads as well as the interviews and
forums associated with running for elected office here in Medford.
The city council on two separate occasions has
asked you by way of their votes to resolve this ongoing problem at tv-3. You have
still done nothing for the cable subscribers of Medford.
And the problem continues to get worse with the
recent arrest of tv-3's paid computer consultant and former board member who is
charged with making a recent bomb threat.
The recent arrest of a board associate due to his
bomb threat, has again sullied the image of Medford. The face of the city of Medford is represented in
how we are perceived within and outside our city. The medium is the Public
Access Station.
This individual, along with the station manager,
who was present at the time of this arrest, but, not arrested, have been
allowed by your inaction to do whatever they please.
As a taxpayer, cable subscriber and ratepayer, a
candidate for Mayor of Medford, and, on behalf of the citizens of Medford, I
demand that you, Mayor McGlynn, immediately resolve this matter by terminating
this board and start anew.
The ratepayers deserve better action than that for
which you have yet to deliver.
Sincerely,
Anthony J. D’Antonio…Candidate for Mayor, city of Medford
12
Yale Street
