Interesting Reading:
Stanford law professor Larry Lessig may have cast off plans for a congressional bid of his own, but he still wants to turn the political process as we know it upside down.

Larry Lessig: Time to reject corporate influence on Washington

change-congress

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, PEOPLE OF WORCESTER.

Last night, March 19th, WCCA met with members of the city council's Public Service and Transportation Committee to discuss WCCA's operational and capital needs for the next five years.

Councilors Joe Petty, Gary Rosen and William Eddy were very receptive and expressed their support for WCCA. Gary Rosen passionately expressed that he hopes to be joined by all his colleagues on the council in a call for assurances to ensure WCCA will continue the valuable level of service and to meet future community media needs.

Congratulations to YOU, Worcester. Thanks to the people and organizations of Worcester for the tremendous outpouring of support and encouragement you have given to WCCA TV over the past years. You have have helped us with your letters, editorials, post cards, petitions, attendance at cable meetings, and your many phone calls to city leaders. Because of your efforts, the city was able to negotiate a decent contract with Charter. The city will soon be receiving the funding and capital needed to continue WCCA TV's public access mission.

Now WCCA's funding and its future lies in the hands of City Manager Michael O'Brien. It is up to him to allocate funding pursuant to YOUR needs as ascertained by the city. YOU have spoken at those public hearings and through YOUR letters, before the PS&T and Cable Advisory committees. Both Committees echoed your request for increased funding, equipment capital and additional channel for WCCA TV “The People's Channel”, YOUR VISION TELEVISION. The city has been sensitive to all of our voices and, so far, to the needs of public access.

Your continued support is more vital now than ever. Please continue those calls and letters to our councilors and the City Manager.

Stay alert for upcoming public hearings regarding the future of WCCA. Sign up for our WCCA mailing list. Together, we may be able to convince the Manager to see to it that WCCA sustains at least the current level of service and community productions. We must press on together. That is what makes this truly "the people's channel".

Sincerely on behalf of the Volunteers, Community Producers, Interns, KidsNet/Youth Channel Students, Community Board, and Staff, Thank you.
Mauro DePasquale

Only on WCCA TV 13, The People' Channel.

Watch all the preliminary excitement as the new Hanover Theater enjoys it's premier night. Relive the celebration with cameraman Frank Rocco with Gary Rosen and Dottie Hargrove,as they interview crowds on the red carpet.

Cable and web casting this
Thursday night at 9pm, (pre-empting Grecian Melodies), Monday, March 24 at 8:00pm (pre-empting Ted Lalos),
and also on Friday, March 28 at 2:30pm

WCCA's Mike Benedetti also has images posted on Flickr. as well. Congrats to all involved.

Tonight, as I write this, I am swinging to sounds of WPI's fantastic stage band under the direction so Rich Falco. This is the first shooting for WCCA's special music series: BAND EDGE.

Groovy cool big band sounds the way nature intended it.
Awesome, we can't wait to get this on cable and on line for you. Yeah Baby! Swing it man!

Bunnie Riedel of Riedel Communications, provides some perspective about AT&T. Beware companies such as AT&T promise jobs, polliticians and unions foam at the mouth without realizing they may be cutting their own throats by allowing important public access mission and channels to be lost in the exchange. Read for yourself

Because someone asked:
Short answer: Educational purposes.
As folks are crying for cable competition, the telecom giants, like AT&T and Verizon, are lobbying hard to avoid accountability to municipalities and thus the people. Open and democratic media platforms such as this WCCA TV, public access station, and community media in general can shine a light on injustice.It appears that AT&T didn't want us to hear that the government may be reading their customer's emails.
This video has been on line, prior to being posted on ours. It has been posted on blogger web sites, as well as other digital venues, and perhaps even other public access web sites as well. Today PEG channels face many threats. If legislation passes at the whim of telecommunication corporate interest ($), WE, the people, will have less digital, less electronic "public space" to participate on. Our freedom of speech and our ability to independently share views and information and as well as, meet local community media needs will be compromised. This is why we need stronger legislative mandates to ensure public access/community media is protected FOR THE LONG TERM. That is the point.
WCCA

The following listing of public access centers on myspace was prepared by Rob MacCausland and distributed on the ACM list serve (Another good reason to join the ACM alliancecm.org ):

CA: Davis - http://www.myspace.com/davismediaaccess CA: Long Beach = LBC TV - http://www.myspace.com/lbctelevision CA: Santa Barbara 17 - http://www.myspace.com/sbchannel17
CA: Santa Barbara 21 - http://www.myspace.com/sbtv21 DC: DCTV - http://www.myspace.com/dctvonline
GA: Atlanta - People TV - http://www.myspace.com/peopletv
HI - Maui - Akaku - http://www.myspace.com/akaku
IA: Iowa City - PATV 18 - http://www.myspace.com/patviowacity
ID: Boise - Treasure Valley - http://www.myspace.com/tvctvch11get98
IL: Chicago - CAN TV - http://www.myspace.com/cantvchicago
IL: Chicago - Northwestern - http://www.myspace.com/nwctv
MA: Cambridge - CCTV - http://www.myspace.com/cctvcambridge
MA: Foxboro - http://www.myspace.com/foxborocableaccess
MA: Medford - http://www.myspace.com/medfordaccess MA: Peabody - http://www.myspace.com/peabodytv
MA: Wilmington - http://www.myspace.com/wctvwilmington
MA: Winthrop - http://www.myspace.com/winthroptv
MA: Worcester - WCCA-TV - http://myspace.com/wccatv13
MI: Flint - Public Development - http://www.myspace.com/publicdevelopment
MI: Lansing LNN 4 - http://www.myspace.com/lnnchannel4
MI: Troy - Community Media Network - http://www.myspace.com/communitymedianetwork
MO: St. Louis - KDKX - http://www.myspace.com/kdhxtv
MN: Duluth - PACTV - http://www.myspace.com/pacttvduluth
MN: Roseville - North Suburban Access Corp - http://www.myspace.com/ctv15
MN: White Bear Lake - Suburban Community Channels - http://www.myspace.com/scctv
NC: Chapel Hill - The People's Channel - http://www.myspace.com/thepeopleschannel
NY: New York - Downtown Community TV - http://www.myspace.com/dctv
NY: Queens - QPTV - http://www.myspace.com/qptvorg
OH: Cincinnati - Media Bridges - http://www.myspace.com/mediabridges
OR: Ashland - Rogue Valley TV - http://www.myspace.com/friendsofrvtv
OR: Ashland - KSKQ - http://www.myspace.com/kskq
TN: Nashville - http://www.myspace.com/musiccityarts9
TX: Austin - Access Austin - http://www.myspace.com/accesstv
VA: Arlington Independent Media -http://www.myspace.com/arlingtonmedia
VT: Burlington - RETN - http://www.myspace.com/retn
VT: Burlington - VCAM - http://www.myspace.com/vermontcam
WA: Kent - Puget Sound Access - http://www.myspace.com/pugetsoundaccess
WA: Olympia - KAOS - http://www.myspace.com/kaosolympia
WA: Olympia - Thurston Community Television - http://www.myspace.com/tctvolympia
WA Rehobeth TV: http://www.myspace.com/rehobothtv
WA: Seattle - SCAN - http://www.myspace.com/scantv

http://www.myspace.com/musiccityarts9

Be their "friend" its a nice way to show support.

WCCA TV offers and presents major community events daily and weekly on TV 13 and over the web. WCCA is a valuable way to promote any event or activity taking place in Worcester. Here is a short example:

EVERY Saturday and Sunday 9:30AM and 5:00 PM Watch COMMUNITY VISION NEWS. WCCA TV community correspondents bring you the latest listings of Cultural and on-profit events, interviews and more. Visit wccatv.com for listings.

EVERY SPRING: DATE TBA "WCCA TV 13's Annual Art ATTACK": An exciting and cool Film, Video and Music Festival. Each year has a special theme presents the finest work of local video artist, musicians, poets, film makers and more.Visit wccatv.com for listings.

WEEKLY: WCCA Offers "YOUNG VIEWS REAL NEWS" Worcester's paramount and longest running youth media program offering a unique global network of young journalist, year round, after school, experiential learning program for Worcester Youth. Visit wccatv.com for listings.

FALL 2008 date TBA: WCCA annual Community Auction to benefit WCCA programing and operations.

WEEKLY: WCCA TV's "Worcester Reading Journal" : Volunteer readers present this public service of local news from participating newspapers, news letters, poets, and more (Beginning January 2008 ).

MONTHLY: Television Production workshops ( Studio, Field, Adobe Premiere Editing, HTML, WCCA web navigation, advacned classes. Ongoing.

DAILY on WCCA TV 13 and streamed in real time over the Internet:
Visit WCCA TV 13's full schedule of programming including minority ( many diverse languages), cultural, educational, municipal, non-profit, electronic bulletin board, and business topics.

WCCA presents over 120 of community produced programming every week. Each production is a cultural activity in itself. A great way to display and promote the creative Worcester.

EVERY SUMMER: Date TBA, COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: Learning
opportunities for Worcester Worcester Youth.

EVERY SUMMER: Date TBA Operation Military Kids. Military personnel partner with WCCA TV to share video stories, to archive with their children before deployment.

Daily at WCCA TV 13: Media Partnerships, Worcester Windows display, Community Computer lab, Collage internships, youth media programs, and so much more.

THERE WILL BE MORE.

Building community through electronic media since 1986, WCCA TV 13 "The People's Channel", Worcester MA
www.wccatv.com

Look for two new great projects soon to be announced at WCCA.

contact: Mauro DePasquale, Executive Director 508-755-1880 ext. 11

TONIGHT at WCCA's general membership meeting we will be announcing the winners of this years "WCCA TV Viewer Awards".
Did you remember to vote? See if your if your favorite WCCA show made the pick.
RSVP 508-755-1880

Do you know that even if you do not own your own computer or have your own DSL, it is possible to access WCCA TV equipment to produce your own video and post it on line and on community access cable channels?

Do you know, that even if you can not afford expensive college classes you can learn television Technology and Internet Video applications as a volunteer or intern at WCCA TV 13?

Do you know that if you have a breaking news story or an event you can share it with the rest of the community or the world by recording it on video or writing about it and even become an anchor on a real community news program COMMUNITY VISION at WCCA TV?

Do you know if you are between the ages of 13 and 20 you can have your voice heard along with others in an exciting youth media program Young Views Real NEWS or Teen Central all at WCCA TV?

Do you know WCCA TV has many volunteer opportunities and welcomes program ideas?

Make a real difference, be part of a real live, fun and empowering community media experience,learn to create TV and share your talent, participate at WCCA TV 13, the People's Channel. Come be part of the Worcester Channel Team, independent and democratic media at it's best. TV by for and of the people.