2010 has been a big year for ACMi. Membership increased dramatically, as did the number and quality of new local programming. More meetings of town agencies began to be covered, more free PSAs were produced for Arlington nonprofits, more local concerts and events came to ACMi channels, a fabulous awards ceremony was produced at Town Hall as our fiscal year ended, and this year's Town Day was bigger and better than ever.
The primary motivation for this progress is our commitment to you, our Town's residents, agencies, and nonprofit organizations. We are honored to serve you.
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Arlington Community Media Inc. was conceived and founded by Arlington citizens to ensure fair and equal access to cable programming from all of Arlington's cable television providers and to provide the training, equipment, and transmission facility for Arlington's residents to use in making themselves seen and heard townwide. You are the reason we're here.
We're always happy to welcome you at ACMI TV.
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ACMi Member Perq
Members of Arlington Community Media Inc are exclusively eligible for free reserved audience passes to ACMi shows during their recording in the ACMi studio. This offer includes audience passes to the Steve Katsos Show (SKS) on Tuesday evenings from 8 to 9 p.m. No one else is being offered this benefit. Only ACMi members are offered this opportunity as a way of acknowledging their privileged status at the home of Arlington television. So email your requests for reserved audience passes to Walter@acmi.tv. Come see, up close and personal, the rising star that is Steve Katsos as he pushes his hit show across the nation to become Arlington's first ever cable show to go national. When it does you can frame your SKS Audience Pass and hang it on your wall. Check out our TV program notes
and choose a show to attend. These passes are in very limited supply, so plan ahead.
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ACMi Citizen Journalists
Three of ACMi's member- producers are active in our community as a citizen journalists and have posted articles in one or more Arlington news outlets to report on a news niche of special interest to them.
Here's one such submission by Amy Currul of Focus Media, the Arlington High School production group associated with ACMi TV. Amy posted this article on YourArlington.com about Focus Media. She is the producer and host of one of Focus Media's shows, Wicked Green, about how to put concerns about the eco-balance of our planet to practical use.
Seniors Alex Van Thong and Trevor Hass have also submitted articles online. Alex is part of the ACMi production group Focus Media, while Trevor is a member of the AHS journalism class using ACMi's studio to produce a news and sports program.
We congratulate these three ACMi members for their active participation in citizen journalism.
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ACMI Hours of Operation
10am - 9pm Mon-Thurs 10am - 6pm Friday Saturday by appointment Closed on Sunday
So, there's plenty of time after work or school to visit the ACMI TV studio.
Equipment Office Hours
New hours for equipment pick-up and return are:
M - F 10am - 1pm
and M - Th 5 - 7pm
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Special Visitor One
In September, Channel 7's Randy Price requested a copy of ACMI's coverage an accident outside our studio. We provided the tape and he provided a station promo for us. Thanks, Randy!
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Please Remember:
ACMI TV continues to be a smoke- & fragrance-free environment. Please do your best to remember, for the sake of those with allergies and chemical sensitivities, to not use scented products when visiting or working with us here at ACMI.
Thank you.
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Workshops at ACMI
ACMi TV offers workshops in single-camera and multi-camera field production, digital editing, graphic design, and studio operations. See the current listing and schedule of these offerings here.
NEW POLICY:
Our workshops are now offered at $20 each for ACMi members, and $40 each for non-members.
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Five Falls at ACMi
Arlington Community Media Inc officially commenced operations just five days after the autumnal equinox of 2006, so this September 22nd we began our fifth fall season as Arlington's gateway to locally produced media. We are proud to continue the upward trend in technical excellence and fine local programming, and we invite the town's residents, agencies, and organizations to continue to involve themselves in our adventure.
from The Staff at ACMi TV
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Seasonal Transition at 85 Park Avenue
As the leaves turned colors in November and began drifting to the ground in Arlington Heights and the temperature began its inevitable drop below 50 degrees, the staff and members of Arlington's community television production facility at 85 Park Avenue began gearing up for fall activities. There were fall workshops to schedule, new members to train, new shows to produce, and the annual meeting and report to prepare. It has been a busy fall, capped off by our LIVE cablecast of Arlington High School's biggest football game of the year against its arch rival Arlington Catholic. And so it goes. As we anticipate the first snowfall of the season, we send holiday greetings to all our members and friends in Arlington and in cyberspace beyond.
The ACMi Annual Meeting 2010 arrived right on schedule on October 21st accompanied by a stunning Annual Report in full color that chronicled the year in review from July 01, 2009 through June 30, 2010. We hope you will agree that our fourth year serving Arlington cable viewers was our best yet. (Click here for low-resolution, faster download version.)
Video on Demand (VOD) was unveiled at the Annual Meeting and gave attendees the first look at the ACMi website's newest feature, now being readied for full use in the new calendar year. ACMI's VOD servers are now accepting member-producer uploads of their current programs for on-demand viewing via our website. We feel certain this convenience will be greatly appreciated by all.
New programs:
The Focus Media production group of Arlington High school students has created three new series that have begun airing this fall on ACMi's Education Channel. Wicked Green, produced and hosted by sophomore Amy Currul, offers ways to go green locally. Arlingtones, produced and hosted by Senior Sam Mintz, is about local music makers, and will soon air its first episode. Junior Lucas Gradwohl has aired its first episode of Arlington Update:ACMi Edition about what's cooking at ACMi itself. The show has just been renamed Your TV.
AHS journalism classes have begun airing their AHS news update show, Ponder This, on the Education channel as well. Arlington Middle-school Producers, formerly know as AMP, are now meeting weekly at ACMi and the Ottoson School to learn video and TV production and to produce programming under the program name Channel Zero and under the direction of ACMi member,  David Vishniac of the Arlington Enrichment Collaborative. Two home-school groups are also meeting weekly at ACMi to produce shows. The middle-school-aged group is doing a sketch comedy program and the high- school-aged group is doing a teen science program.
Coming in 2011: ACMi member and Aikido instructor Ted Goodman, with the help of ACMi member-producer Ed Keith, is editing his series on the techniques of the martial art of Aikido. This program is in the editing stage and will take some time to complete, but it is definitely on track to enhance the programming schedule next year. Stay tuned.
The Young Adult Vocational Program, and Arlington-based program of Eliot Community Human Services, is finishing its much anticipated first episode of YAVP-TV and promises to be an inspiring and uplifting new series.
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The Steve Katsos Show, the increasingly popular weekly program produced here at our ACMi studio, was featured in a Boston Globe article and now boasts five million viewing households in New England and beyond. So intense was the buzz that it reached Boston's Public television station, WGBH, which is now considering making the show the basis of a new reality TV documentary series. Stay tuned for developments.
In September and November ACMi offered three more days of free PSA production to Arlington's nonprofit organizations, making its studio available for high-quality, one-minute video promotion of the services these organizations provide to our town. The PSAs will be cablecast on our channels and via our website through the end of the year. The participating organizations are very pleased to have this opportunity to get their messages of service to the Arlington public.
Fresh paint: Following the blacking of the studio walls,fresh paint has been applied to the reception area, hallway, the conference room, and both bathrooms with the same color scheme adopted for the edit lab downstairs.
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TOWN DAY 2010 - Our Best Yet!
2010 Arlington Town Day Mainstage
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ACMi COVERED IT LIVE WITH 3O PCVs.
ACMi Production Crew Volunteers (PCVs) helped with all aspects of the six-hour LIVE coverage of Town Day 2010. They ran cables, set up cameras and microphones, created TV graphics for and taped segments for roll-in, interviewed special guests and the general public, operated video switchers, etc. They were segment producers, unit camera and audio operators for remotely recorded events at the Senior Center and on-the-street interviews, LIVE crew for main stage performances, for Town Hall studio interviews, technicians for graphic production, video roll-in, and other control room functions. They did it all and next year so could you. To become an ACMi PCV, contact Walter@ACMI.tv for information.
ACMI's Member-Volunteer Town Day Production Crew in action
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A reminder on keeping the Free Press free: We cannot fulfill our obligation to our viewers without keeping them (you) up to date on conditions that may affect freedom of speech and the press--for that is what community media access is charged by its communities to do. In that spirit of keeping our viewers informed, we offer the following link to the organization that brings to you the program "Democracy Now!" -- Free Speech TV. FSTV provided important coverage during the mid-term election results on November 2nd that was not available anywhere else and gave balance to the reporting and analyiis by the major networks. Thank you for your interest in free and independent public information media. To read more, please click here.
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Special Visitor Too
Mike Lynch of Channel 5 Sports visits ACMi for AHS soccer footage
In November a call came into the ACMi TV station from a caller identifying himself as Mike Lynch. When the incoming call was announced by intercom, the whispered question was: Is it "THE Mike Lynch?" It turned out that it was THE Mike Lynch calling to request ACMI's footage of the the exciting overtime finish of the final game of the AHS boys soccer game -- a real nail-biter that Channel 5 Sports wanted to show on its evening broadcast. ACMi happily provided the footage and, in exchange, received a station promo recorded by 'Lynchy' in our studio for future use. Thanks, Mike!
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Membership Year 2010-11 Nears Halfway Point
July 1, 2010 marked the beginning of ACMI's fourth full membership year. And yet not everyone has gotten the word. While new members are piling in, not all our veterans have renewed. Please be sure to renew as soon as possible.
Chief among the perks that attend ACMi membership is reduced-fee for all ACMi workshops. See our current schedule at www.ACMI.tv. And, if you have a documentary or dramatic project that you have been wanting to see on the small screen, we have what you need: top quality digital equipment and the training to put it to work for your project. What do we get out of this amazing deal? We get interesting, informative, and creative programming for our Public Access channel. So wait no longer. Come make ACMi TV your launching pad to the world of new media and to new community connections. The doors are open here Monday through Thursday from 10 AM to 9 PM (and Friday to 6 PM).
We look forward to welcoming you at 85 Park Ave again soon.
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Not a member, or haven't yet renewed?
Download a membership application here and mail it, or come to 85 Park Avenue to deliver it in person!
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