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ACMi by the NUMBERS
122 Number of Steve Katsos
Show episodes to date 4 Number of new ACMi
Canon camcorders 2 Number of studios
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Award Winners
Four ACMi members won awards in the 2011 ACM-NE Fall Video Contest. This annual Alliance for Community Media regional contest is quite competitive and three submis- sions from ACMi member producers were among the top three in three separate categories.
Rachel Smith's documentary "Oyster Reef Restoration in Wellfleet Harbor" tied for first prize in the Community Impact category. The Steve Katsos Show (episode 99) won second prize in the General Talk Show category. A second-place award in the Profile Talk Show category went to ACMi co-producers Sara Alfaro-Franco and Diane Mahon for their submitted episode of "Roll Call with Diane Mahon".
Congratulations to all who submitted entries--especially to Rachel, Steve, Diane and Sara. Keep the hits coming!
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New Training Tracks
ACMi is reconfiguring its workshop oferings into a comprehensive curriculum to more effectivly certify its members in the core skills of video production, editing, graphic design, studio operations, writing and digital filmmaking.
(View current schedule)
ACMi workshops are offered at $20 each to ACMi members and producer-groups, and $40 each to non-members.
Reservations and payment are required in advance. Please RSVP to indicated instructors on the schedule .
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Halloween at ACMi
ACMi celebrated Halloween with two youth events and ghoulish programming.
First, we kicked of with Focus Media Movie Night on October 21 at which we screened the Ivan Reitman film, Ghost Busters. Then on Thursday October 27, ACMi offered a Halloween Effects Demonstration, in which Arlington youth between 13 and 17 years of age learned about special effects and makeup, incl. zombie skin.
Finally, on Halloween eve and Halloween Night, ACMi presented back-to-back showings of Plan 9 from Outer Space, and Night of the Living Dead, for cablecast on the Public Channel.
Don't miss out next fall when we do it again.
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New Show, Arlington
Catholic TV, Now in
Production at ACMi
Arlington Catholic students, Aaron & Luis pose in front of the magic green screen in the studio during production of the first episode in the new show series from the new ACHS production group, Cougar Productions.
 ACTV crew members, Joel (tech director) and Jessica (director) dilligently apply their freshly learned skills to create the show's first episode at ACMi community television. Working with ACMi Youth Coordinator, Dan Black, the new production group, Cougar Productions, is creating ACTV, a morning newsbites show.
ACHS has been dramatically expanding its presence at ACMi and expects other new productions to come later in the new year.
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ACMi Has a Studio C
Thanks to specialist, Greg Hall, and ACMi technical staff, there are now 2 functioning studios available at ACMi.
When necessary, recorded (and even LIVE) programs can now be produced in the Conference Room Studio C.
Take note ACMi producers!
Committee meetings, small discussion groups and interviews, with Skyped-in guests, are possible even when the studio upstairs is booked.
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My MassTV Update
ACMi believes it is vitally important to keep our members up-to-date on the community access media agenda and activities in our state. See more.
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ACMI Hours of Operation
10am - 9pm Mon-Thurs 10am - 6pm Friday Saturday by appointmentClosed on Sunday
Equipment Office Hours
(equipment pick-up/return)
M - F 10am-1pm
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Please Remember: ACMI TV continues to be a smoke- and 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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Fall Feathers and Pigskin
This Tom Turkey seems unpreturbed
as he struts his stuff early Thanksgiving morning, blissfully unaware of the fate awaiting him after the big football game between Arlington High School and Arlington Catholic.
This year's annual contest at the AHS Peirce Field dashed the Spy Ponder's gridiron hopes for victory, but the game was nonetheless enjoyed by the fans in the stands and watching at home on the ACMi Education channel. LIVE coverage was admirably produced by ACMi staff and ACMi member volunteers from both schools (lower right). ********************************************************************
As the autumn deepens and the winter solstice approaches, we
at Arlington's community television production center wish all our
members and friends a warm memory, during the months to come,
of our autumnal celebrations and mild weather. Our mid-winter
greetings and news will be coming your way in mid February. Happy holidays and season's greetings from . . . -- The Staff at ACMi TV _______________________________________________
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ACMi Annual Meeting 2011:
A Matter Now of Public Record
The 2011 ACMi Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held on Wednesday November 9th in our studio at 85 Park Avenue.
It was the fifth AGM and featured our fifth Annual Report and a program that included reports from all departments. Our newest staff members Sara Alfaro-Franco and Dan Black were spotlighted as prolific producers of programming for the Government Channel and the Education Channel respectively. Dan screened a video montage of projects he, along with high school and middle school students, has been producing as part of his work as ACMi's Youth Coordinator.
 ACMI's fifth Annual General Meeting was convened in its studio at 85 Park Avenue and offered a review of FY 2010-11 accomplishments. This photo was taken just prior to opening the doors to the public, while ACMi staff and volunteers enjoyed nutritious pre-meetng food downstairs in the edit lab. 
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What's Up (and On) at ACMi
August
22nd ACMi Operational Policies & Procedures publication
25th ACMi Screenwriting Workshop at Robbins Library
September
17th ACMi LIVE coverage of Town Day 2011
24th ACMi member, Brian Fiore's Tango documentary premieres
October
6th ACMi launch of new children's show, Songs from the Circle
8th ACMi winners of Arlington Int'l Film Festival awarded
12th PSA Day - ACMI's 3rd annual offer of free Public Service
Announcements to Arlington's nonprofit orgs
27th ACMi Halloween Special Effects Workshop & Movie Night
31st Arlington Enrichment Collaborative "Zombie Walk"
November
1st ACMi Video-on-Demand service (VOD) emerges from Beta
8th ACMi winners of ACM-NE Fall Video Contest announced
15th ACMi Conference Room Studio becomes operational
17th Steve Katsos Comedy Night at the Capitol Theater
19th ACMi becomes new home for New England Journal
24th ACMi LIVE coverage of the annual Thanksgiving Day
gridiron classic between perennial rivals Arlington High
School and Arlington Catholic High School. Stay tuned for our coverage of the entire high school fall sports season.
Debut of Cougar Productions' first program, ACTV, a short morning news show from the Arlington Catholic High School Camera Club. Other shows under the Cougar Productions
umbrella may come in 2012, so stay tuned. (See story at left.)
See a complete listing of our current programming.
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ACMi Focus Media News
Focus Media's Arlingtones gets new producer and host
ACMi member, Jay Ricco, has assumed the show's host role this fall, replacing last year's producer/host, AHS grad Sam Mintz. This season's producer is AHS senior Lucas Gradwohl, last season's producer/host of Your TV, a behind-the-scenes peek into life at ACMi.
The first episode of the new season is airing now on the ACMi Education channel. Below, Arlingtones crew in the control room produce the episode, featuring the band "Nevermind".
ACMi Youth Coordinator, Dan Black arranges a studio set for a workshop with Arlington Enrichment Collaborative under the tutelage of ACMi member, Dave (Vish) Vishniak.
Below, members of the Arlington Catholic Camera Club receive instructions from Dan about the fundamentals of TV studio production, as ACHS faculty supervisor Martin Vazquez looks on approvingly.
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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 alliance of community PEG media organizations like ours. Thank you for your interest in free and independent public information media. To learn more about what our national Alliance for Community Media is doing to help, visit here. |
Membership has its privileges
Where else in Arlington can you receive training and practice in a set marketable skills for the price of dinner and a show?
Chief among the perquisites that attend ACMi membership is
a reduced-fee for all ACMi workshops. See our current workshops. And, if you have a documentary or dramatic project, a film short, or green-screen project you've been wanting to make and put up on YouTube or your website, we have what you need: top quality digital equipment, the training to put it to work for your project, and an experienced staff to guide you. What do we get? We get interesting, informative, and creative programming for our Public Access channel. So come make ACMi your launching pad to the world of new media and community connections. The doors are open here Monday through Thursday from 10 AM to 9 PM and Friday 10-6. _____________________________________________________________________
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Arlington Community Media Inc. was conceived and founded by Arlington citizens dedicated to ensuring fair and equal access to local community programming for all of Arlington's cable television viewers. ACMi undertakes this mission by providing the transmission facility, equipment, and training, for use by Arlington's residents in making themselves seen and heard townwide. You are why we're here.
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