 The ACMi Newsletter
www.ACMI.tv 781-777-1115 85 Park Avenue, Arlington, MA 02476 Executive Director, Norman J. McLeod Outreach Coordinator, Walter Locke
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ACMi Newsletter Volume 6, #3
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Sep - Dec 2012
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Studio B
at Night
 For ACMi Youth Coordinator Dan Black, nights at Studio B are good for getting work done. Working feverishly with groups from AHS and Arlington Catholic--not to mention the band of merry video makers at Ottoson's Media Center Studio which he built with ACMi member volunteers--there are more programs being created by Arlington youth than by any other group. His is more than a full-time job, and loves it. Check the ACMi Education channel to see just how prolific his gang of young ones is.
Studio B is fully operational as a mini production studio and new lighting is on the way. The problem is that his students will need to apply to grad school in the art and science of TV production to avoid boredom in college. The technical, business, and life skills they are absorbing is astonishing. Keep up the good work, Dan!
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News @ ACMi: APN
As 2012 comes to a close, the news is APN. ACMi News Director Sara Alfaro-Franco is busy recruiting citizen journalists as reporters, camcorder operators, and editors for the APN team.
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Alfaro-Franco (background) works with Julie Land on editing an APN news segment.
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Meanwhile, the core group has begun producing round-up news digest segments of Selectmen meetings and School Committee meetings.
You can view these and other news segments here.
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A fond farewell. . .
to a long-term member
We at ACMi knew George Arena primarily because of his annual fundraiser jazz concert for Kidney Transplant/Dialysis Association (KTDA) which he founded after becoming a kidney transplant recipient himself in 1975.
As an ACMi member and producer, George organized our annual coverage of his "Afternoon of Jazz" concerts at the Sons of Italy. We were impressed by George's tireless efforts on behalf of other kidney patients that needed assistance. "Patients Helping Patients" was his mantra. We had expected to be airing his November 2012 concert during December, but George was called away.
For more on the life and death of George Arena, click here.
 This is the flier that was to announce the November concert this fall. Just weeks beforehand George called to say his health prompted him to cancel it.
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The Nicole Review
Season 2
It's a whole new season for The Nicole Review--new guests, new topics, new ideas. See details here.
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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 - 8pm Mon-Thurs 10am - 6pm Friday Saturday by appointmentClosed on Sunday
Equipment Office Hours
(equipment pick-up/return)
M - F 10am-1pm
M - Th 5pm-7pm
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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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Arlington Community Media
was conceived and founded by Arlington citizens dedicated to ensuring fair and equal access to local community program-ming for all of Arlington's cable television viewers.
ACMi undertakes this mission by providing the production facility, the equipment, and training, for use by Arlington's residents in making themselves seen and heard town-wide.
You are why we're here.
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Seasonal Lights Welcome You at ACMi
As the autumn gives way to winter and the winter solstice comes, we at Arlington's community television production center on Park Ave and Studio B on Mass Ave wish all our members and friends a warm and happy holiday season, with good memories of the autumn just past and hopes for the spring that's coming. Our autumnal equinox greetings and news will come your way in April.
Happy holidays and season's greetings from . . . -- The Staff at _________________________________________ ACMi TV |
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Did you see that football game?!
ACMi (Arlington Community Media inc) cablecast the annual Thanksgiving Day high school football classic to its cable and online viewership as teams from Arlington High and Arlington Catholic met helmet to helmet on the hallowed turf at AHS Peirce Field.
This year's annual contest again dashed the Spy Ponder's gridiron hopes for victory, but the game was nonetheless enjoyed by the fans in the stands and at home watching on the ACMi Education channel. LIVE coverage was admirably produced by ACMi staff and ACMi member volunteers from both schools.
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Honorary mascot Tommy D. Turk arrived battle-ready, wearing the very latest in engineered headgear.
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Tough guys and turkeys were both part of the formula on November 22nd for The Game at Peirce Field.
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ACMi Annual Meeting 2012
The 2012 ACMi Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held on Thursday November 15th in our Studio A at 85 Park Avenue.
It was the sixth AGM and featured our sixth Annual Report and a presentation of reports from all departments. For our newest staff member, Jessica Barnthouse, it was the first such presentation here at ACMi. She presented a short video of her work since arriving. Other staff members did the same by screening edited montages of projects each had accomplished during FY-2012.
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ACMi E.D, president, and board members at November's Annual General Meeting
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ACMI's sixth Annual General Meeting was convened in its studio at 85 Park Avenue on November 15th and offered a review of FY-2011/12 accomplishments. Pictured at left are ACMi treasurer Kathy Colwell, Clerk Michael Healy, Executive Director Norman McLeod, President John Leone, and directors Linda Olsen and Martin Thrope presiding over this year's meeting. Read more on the ACMi Board.
Pictured below are newest staff member Jessica Barnthouse, and Studio Manager Jeff Munro, reporting their FY-2012 accomplishments.
Jess Barnthouse, ACMi Gov't Access Coordinator, giving a short report on her work since joining the staff in July.
Studio Manager, Jeff Munro sums up the year with a report on the new Studio B and improvements to Studio A. Jeff is the longest serving member on the ACMi staff, having been at 85 Park Ave when since it was Comcast's home.
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The Gov meets the Boss
Deval Patrick and ACMi's Norman McLeod  First things first: the governor was at ACMi as a guest on The Steve Katsos Show. The Executive Director was at ACMi because he's the boss there. Then came the inevitable photo opportunity for the two top dogs... and they took it. Want more: on The Gov ? The Boss ? The Katman ?  |
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What's Up (and On) at ACMi
September
15 ACMi LIVE coverage of Town Day 2012
November
7-8 Open House at the new and fully operational Studio B
11 ACMi coverage of Veterans' Day ceremony.
22 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 high school winter sports.
December
07 Junior Girl Scouts of troop 71028 earn government
badges after
interactive tour of ACMi studio.
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New series, On the Avenue, a review of people and
places encountered on Arlington's main drag--Mass Ave
21 Topical program: "Birth 2012 Boston Preview"
an early peek at a LIVE global event at Town Hall on 12/22/12
22 Special holiday programming commences (Night Before
Christmas, It's a Wonderful Season, Holiday Snow, Crackling
Fire,
Cookies & Carols, Holiday Pops, and Santa Conquers the
28 NEW Special, with Pat Tassone, Alan Havhaness:
Reflections by Martin Berkofsky.
(Thanks to J. Johnston for research.)
Ongoing
Award-winning New England Journal and Steve Katsos Show,
Award-winning Wicked Green and Ponder This (at Studio B),
Murphy's Law, and AHS winter sports.
Lots more programs, some created by you, on ACMi TV !
See a complete listing of our current programming.
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Movin' on Down
ACMi member Lucas Delbanco prepares ACMi's Master Control system for moving to its new location downstairs at 85 Park.  | |
This is the new home of Master Control, next to the edit lab on our lower level. It may not look like it could hold the behemoth MC you see above, but it does.
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Master Control is the name of the four pictured racks of gear that store, process, and schedule for delivery to our Arlington cable viewers the programs we make for you to enjoy at home. It has been in the studio control room since we began operations in September 2006.
move the bulky but amazing Master Control downstairs into our former storage room. It seems happy there and it is so nice and quiet now in the control room for directing shows and putting out the news. Moving has its blessings.
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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 of 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 8 PM and Friday 10-6. We look forward to welcoming you soon at 85 Park Avenue.
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