Media

[ July 22, 2010; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] If you run a blog or email list (sometimes called a listserv) or distribute information on Facebook or YouTube that supports kids and families, you’re invited to the OneVille Project’s Online Media Meetup on Thursday, July 22, 6:30–8:30 at Design Annex, 60–70 Union Square, above Precinct.

One of OneVille’s goals is to make sharing information that [...]

[ June 27, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Come share your ideas for the blog. We’re meeting Sunday, 6 to 8, at the Somerville Visiting Nurses assisted living building, 259 Lowell Street.

[ July 7, 2010; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. July 8, 2010; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. July 14, 2010; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. July 15, 2010; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. July 21, 2010 10:00 am to July 22, 2010 12:00 pm. July 22, 2010; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. July 28, 2010; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. July 29, 2010; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Somerville Community Access Television’s Next Generation Producer’s youth media program is offering an eight-session workshop in July for Somerville students ages 11 to 14. The workshop will be fun, educational, and creative.

The students will learn to use state-of-the-art media technology, including digital video equipment, digital still cameras, Photoshop, and Final Cut editing software. They will [...]

Fellow Somervillans… I am proud to, once again, be the bearer of great news. Your community access television station has been selected as number one for nationwide excellence by the Alliance for Community Media… SCATV has been awarded this singular honor for the fifth time in the past six years.

This SCAT program grew out of a sister city link between Somerville and Tiznit, Morocco. Three people from Somerville tell about their trip to Morocco, and a Moroccan school teacher talks about his trip here.

[ May 30, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Somerville Voices will hold an open meeting Sunday, May 28, at the Visiting Nurses assisted living facility, 259 Lowell St., from 6 to 8 pm. Come and bring your ideas!

An all-present and accounted-for Gubernatorial Candidates Forum will be held May 18, 2010 from 1 p.m. – 3:30p.m. at the Perkins School in Watertown. WBUR’s Bob Oakes will be the Moderator.

Steve Clift is one of the most successful community media advocates in the nation. His e-Democracy is both a standard and a clarion call for more participatory journalism. In part this is a response to the failure of traditional media to cover what we need-to-know, and their inept response to the medium of the internet. [...]

Representative Capuano has agreed to be a sponsor of the Community Access Preservation (CAP) Act in Congress that would protect access television stations across the country. Many states have passed statewide franchising laws that have undermined established funding allocations from cable television companies, channel quality, and channel accessibility.  Many stations have disappeared altogether. The CAP [...]

[ March 7, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Come with your ideas for our community blog.

Somerville Visiting Nurses assisted living facility, 259 Lowell Street.

[ February 7, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Come talk about our blog and how to make better.

Sunday, Feb. 7, 6 to 8 pm, Visiting Nurses assisted living facility, 259 Lowell St., small dining room.

New people are always welcome!

[ January 28, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Cross-posted from the SCAT website [link to source here]

Save the date: January 28 from 6:00 to 9:00pm for the SCAT Annual Meeting. This year, to celebrate the redesign of the HotSet, we will begin the evening at 6:00 with a live show hosted by Bill Barrell and Jessica Barnhouse, featuring the HotSet producers and any [...]

[ February 4, 2010; 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Cross-posting from the SCAT website [link to source here]

Thursday, February 4, 6:30-9; afterparty to follow
SCATV, 90 Union Square, Somerville
6:30pm: doors and prescreening activities; 7:00pm sharp: screening followed by panel discussion;
9pm: afterparty @ the Independent, 75 Union Square
***SEATING IS LIMITED; please come on time***
The event will be cablecast live in Somerville and Cambridge.

Exploring the role of [...]

[ January 10, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Come share your ideas for our blog.

Sunday, Jan. 10, 6 to 8 pm.

Visiting Nurses assisted living facility, 259 Lowell St.

[ December 15, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] SCAT is hosting Santa Claus in the TV studio on Tuesday, December 15 from 6:00 to 7:00pm. This event is free. Children may come up to tell Santa what they want for Christmas in person, or watching the live TV show from home on Channel 3, they may call in to him at 617-628-9876. The [...]

[ December 6, 2009; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Come talk about our blog:

What’s good?

What’s not?

What’s next?

At the Visiting Nurses assisted living facility small dining room, 259 Lowell Street.

Last week, the Board of Aldermen extended the City’s contract with FW Russell for another year plus 5 more under a new contract despite concerns stemming from a 2-year-old investigation by AG Coakley’s office into the waste disposal company’s labor practices. The company was selected for offering the lowest price among 4 bids procured by [...]

[ November 23, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Come to a community screening & discussion of…

RETHINK AFGHANISTAN – A Film

Come watch award-winning Robert Greenwald’s newest film about the war in Afghanistan – and find out what you can do to save lives and stop the war.

Somerville Public Library
Central Branch- 79 Highland Avenue
November 23, 7 [...]

Kicking off on Wednesday, December 9 from 3:30-5:30, SCAT’s Next Generation Producers After-School Film Production Club offers students the opportunity to create their own video projects, learn state-of-the-art television production skills, and work alongside other youth with similar interests. The teens will receive one-on-one attention from SCAT staff as they create the film and video [...]

[ December 5, 2009; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Free film – Dec 5 – “Emmanuel’s Gift,” part of “Disability Reframed” series.

The city elections are Nov. 3.
Here are the three SCAT-sponsored televised debates of the School Committee and Ward Alderman races.
Ward 6 Aldermen’s race:

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Ward 4 School Committee race:

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Ward 5 School Committee race:

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[ October 29, 2009; 8:00 pm; October 30, 2009; 8:00 pm; October 31, 2009; 2:00 pm; 8:00 pm; ] The Post-Meridian Radio
Players (PMRP) are pleased to announce the launch of the Web site and
ticket sales for “The Big Broadcast of October 30th, 1938″ – the
latest iteration of their annual Halloween tribute to the Golden Age
of Radio.

[ October 26, 2009; 6:00 am to 8:00 am. October 27, 2009; 12:00 am to 2:00 am. 6:00 am to 8:00 am. October 28, 2009; 12:00 am to 2:00 am. 6:00 am to 8:00 am. October 29, 2009; 12:00 am to 2:00 am. 6:00 am to 8:00 am. 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. October 30, 2009; 12:00 am to 2:00 am. 6:00 am to 8:00 am. October 31, 2009; 12:00 am to 2:00 am. 6:00 am to 8:00 am. ] Somerville Community Access Television, in collaboration with the TV program “Greater Somerville with Joe Lynch,” will present four half-hour forums for each contested race for Alderman and School Committee. This is an excellent opportunity for Somerville residents to compare the candidates’ perspectives before the election on November 3.

Bill Bumpus and regular Somerville Voices contributor Fred Berman are the co-hosts of a live, (roughly) biweekly show on Somerville Cable Access Television (SCAT, Channel 3) titled “Progressive Voices”. If you or your organization are working to make a difference on a local, state, national or world level, we’d like to interview you!

Bill Bumpus and regular Somerville Voices contributor Fred Berman are the co-hosts of a live, (roughly) biweekly show on Somerville Cable Access Television (SCAT, Channel 3) titled “Progressive Voices”.

If you or your organization are working to make a difference on a local, state, national or world level, we’d like to interview you!

Thanks to the hard work of many Somerville Residents, including but not limited to Barry Rafkind, FBerman, EIF, the Jehlens and lots more, SCAT has yet again won Number 1 Nationwide Community Access Television Station presented by the Alliance for Community Media. We are very proud, having been selected best in the country four [...]

This week, Craig Leach’s media class at Somerville High broke into four groups to discuss their use of social media. In this class, Facebook reigns supreme. MySpace is losing out. YouTube is very big. Twitter hasn’t caught on except for a few. Even Facebook seems on the decline—not as exciting as when it first took [...]

Somerville Voices invites you to a brainstorming meeting to come up with great story ideas about our city.
We are about to start a new experiment in community journalism, and we want to use the ideas generated at the meeting.
In the year or so that Somerville Voices has been active, we have made an important discovery: [...]

Bill Bumpus and regular Somerville Voices contributor Fred Berman are the co-hosts of a live, (roughly) biweekly show on Somerville Cable Access Television (SCAT, Channel 3) titled “Progressive Voices”.
If you or your organization are working to make a difference on a local, state, national or world level, we’d like to interview you!  Our show airs [...]

On March 19, 2009, the City of Somerville was one of the 118 recipients of an “e-government Award,” from Common Cause. This citation is given for providing online access to Board of Alderman agenda and minutes, budget information, and general by-laws. But, on closer inspection, Somerville came in “number one” for the most inaccessible website, [...]

As Executive Director of Somerville Community Access Television, I am concerned that the community may lose resources and benefits from changes to the cable TV franchise rules.  After failing in 2007, Verizon is trying again to modify the rules to their benefit with a new bill put forward in the MA House and Senate.  Although [...]

Apropos of Barry’s belief that Somerville needs more and better investigative reporting, you can learn to do it yourself!  Northeastern University School of Journalism and the New England First Amendment Center are offering a May 1 workshop on investigative reporting and freedom of information.   http://www.neu.edu/firstamendment/news_and_announcements/workshop_registration

Our community is not being served adequately by the level of investigative reporting provided by our two local newspapers: The Somerville Journal and The Somerville News. There is a plethora of local blogs offering opinions and media filtering, but there remains a poverty of the kind of quality in-depth journalism that can only be obtained [...]

Bill Bumpus and regular Somerville Voices contributor Fred Berman are the co-hosts of a live, (roughly) biweekly show on Somerville Cable Access Television (SCAT, Channel 3) titled “Progressive Voices”.
If you or your organization are working to make a difference on a local, state, national or world level, we’d like to interview you!  [...]

Perhaps a SomervilleVoices.org blogger can be the next Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow?
The International Women’s Media Foundation announces the Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship for  full-time, part time or freelance journalists working (for at least 3 years) on human rights or social justice issues.  This fellowship will allow recipients to spend 9 months in a research program at MIT. [...]

A focus group of Civil and DisAbilities Rights advocates will join with the longest-running TV Access producers group in the country during Civil Rights Week in MA to tackle the challenges of designing equal opportunity communities.

Hi Gang.. Bill from SCAT here. It’s the holiday time of year and best wishes to all of you from the members and staff here at Somerville Community Television. Today’s BIG NEWS: Santa and Mrs Claus will be live on Somerville Channel 3 on Wednesday night December 10, from 6-8pm. We would like to invite those of you with little ones…

As promised here is the latest and greatest from Somerville Community Access Television. Check out the footage from the Community Arts Festival and from a Nepali Community Event. See a separate posting for the interview with Bill Shelton about Charter Reform on Fred Berman and Bill Bumpus’ Monday evening show, Progressive Voices.

[ November 4, 2008; 10:00 pm; November 5, 2008; 8:00 am to 10:00 am. ] Hi Gang, for those of you yearning for alternative media coverage of the big day November 4th … keep reading, we have the answer.

Hi Gang, for those of you yearning for alternative media coverage of the big day November 4th …. keep reading, we have the answer.

Hi Gang… lot going on since my last post. Later this week I will have a massive update, but, in the meantime I wanted to share the latest episode of the Progressive Voices TV program here at SCAT. Fred Berman and Bill Bumpus have as their guest: Harris Gruman to talk about Question one on the upcoming November Ballot. See the video below.

You already know more about Somerville than the kids who spend a year or two reporting here and then move on. You have years of personal experience understanding one or more important civic issues. The Somerville News, Somerville Journal, and this humble forum can certain benefit from your insights. And more than any time that I can remember, providing a decent future for all Somerville’s citizens requires our fully understanding our present and the past that created it.

Either that or I am getting behind…not sure which. Fred Berman and Bill Bumpus have three more programs of interest to S’Villans. First: Disabilities with guest Eileen Feldman, 2′nd: The History and Community Importance of Community Television with guest Wendy Blom. Exec. Dir. of SCAT and 3′rd: All about Green Jobs with guests Mary Jo Connelly and Laurie Leyshon. Check out their Video Blog to watch these and other Progressive Voices Programs. Progressive Voices… Mondays at 6pm on Somerville Community Access Television. Ch.3 on both the Comcast and RCN cable systems in Somerville.

Fred Berman and Bill Bumpus interviewed a student at Tufts University about the ongoing contract negotiations between the Janitors at Tufts and the subcontractor for the school. If you would like to hear what Kevin Dillon has to say about the “Janitors Alliance” please click the link that will take you to the new blog for the Progressive Voices television show cablecast on Somerville Community Access Television. Channel 3 on the Comcast and RCN cable systems in Somerville.

This is the question we will ask students of all ages at the National Night Out on Tuesday, August 5th. Join us at the National Night Out begining at 5:00 PM in Foss Park – not just to be interviewed for TV, but also to enjoy an evening of family fun and a celebration of peace and community.

On August 5, from 8 – 9 p.m. on SCAT’s celebrated DEAD AIR LIVE show, the Tibetan community will offer viewers a first-hand report of what Tibet was like before the Chinese invasion, and talk about what it was like to have to flee their beloved homeland and become exiled citizens of the world. Tune in to SCAT Channel 3 next Tuesday, for a fascinating and moving account of a beautiful culture and people, who cultivated the roof of the world.

A special thank you to Fred Berman for hosting an episode of “Talking About Somerville”. This program is currently being shown on Somerville Community Access Television, Tuesday nights at 9pm. The program highlights the good works of non profit organizations throughout Somerville.

New technology at Somerville Community Access Television means better video and show playback for all our Somerville viewers. (snip) …another reason that Somerville Community Access Television (SCAT) has won nationwide awards and remains a leader in the New England access television marketplace.

The Youth Media program at Somerville Community Television is hosting a free screening of short films shot by the youth members of THE NEXT GENERATION PRODUCERS. This screening will be at 6pm Tuesday June 3, at the Somerville Theatre in Davis Square.

If you listen to a local NPR radio station like me, you’ve probably heard segments of Living on Earth with Steve Curwood, a program on the environment and environmental policy. After listening to this week’s show, I picked up on the fact that they broadcast from a studio in Davis Square, right down the hall from the office of the Somerville Journal, at 20 Holland Street Suite 408 to be exact.