City Of Worcester

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We have a made a call into Assistant City Manager Julie Jacobson's office asking if the city has a plan to ensure cable services including the PEG channels continue without interruption. When we hear back from the city we will include such information here.

The "Holiday Shout Outs!",  taped at WCCA TV 13 on Dec. 5th as part of the City of Worcester's  Festival of Lights, will be cable cast on Wed., Dec. 10 & 17 @ 11:30pm and Thursday, Dec. 11 & 18 @ 9am & 8pm and Friday, Dec. 12 & 19 @ 10:00am. The photos taken of the "Holiday Shout Outs!",  will be on the WCCA TV electronic bulletin board starting Saturday, Dec. 12th. Hours to watch are between 2pm and 4pm Saturdays and Sundays.Happy Holidays and thank you to all who participated!

The "Holiday Shout Outs!",  taped at WCCA TV 13 on Dec. 5th as part of the City of Worcester's  Festival of Lights, will be cable cast on Wed., Dec. 10 & 17 @ 11:30pm and Thursday, Dec. 11 & 18 @ 9am & 8pm and Friday, Dec. 12 & 19 @ 10:00am. The photos taken of the "Holiday Shout Outs!",  will be on the WCCA TV electronic bulletin board starting Saturday, Dec. 12th. Hours to watch are between 2pm and 4pm Saturdays and Sundays.Happy Holidays and thank you to all who participated!

WCCA TV 13 is proud to be a part of the City of Worcester's Festival of Lights on Friday, December 5th. Visit our studio at 415 Main Street  from 6pm-8pm and be on TV! Give a holiday "shout out" to your friends and family right here on WCCA TV 13. For more details, contact Tracy Foley at 508-755-1880. Happy Holidays!

UPDATE November 14,2008 Charter technicians have done some work on the problem this afternoon. Today they ran additional tests. It still is uncertain why the grainy images appear on and off. We have come up with a temporary fix until Monday. The Charter technician, said he will return on Monday to continue to find a resolution to the problem. Please let us know if you continue to see problems with the quality of channel 13 at your home. Thank you for your continuing support, for your patience, and for watching WCCA TV 13. # # # It's too early for snow in Worcester unless your the public access channel. We have experienced poor signal quality consistently, off and on, for years. WCCA is sending a clear quality signal out, but viewers are seeing grainy images with intermittent hum, and over all, an embarrassingly poor signal quality. It is frustrating. The city administration tells us they have contacted Charter. They tell us that first they have to determine if there is a problem. Once they determine the problem exist they will negotiate with Charter toward a solution. Charter's technicians have been responsive but have failed to provide a long term remedy on a timely basis. I have a letter from 2004 sent to Charter complaining of the same issue. Many public access / community producers put a lot of time, hundreds of hours, and many days, each week to produce and present their videos on Channel 13. It is so disappointing that there seems to be no urgency from Charter to rectify the matter. The city's cable franchise agreement obligates Charter Communications to provide the Public Access channel with a signal quality equal to all the other channels on the cable system. To the thousands and thousands of cable subscribers, to the producers, show host, guest, and volunteers, WCCA wants you to know that we are doing our best to get the situation cleared up immediately.

All the amazing production, educational programs, over 120 hours of community produced and presented programs, all the equipment, the facility, the great award winning staff support, the outreach services supporting most of our non-profit organizations and cultural institutions and events, the bulletin board, the website activity. All connecting Worcester to world on WCCA is all made possible WITHOUT TAX money. Thanks for supporting WCCA TV 13 ,"The People's Channel"

WCCA TV received a call today, unexpectedly, from a T&G reporter seeking follow up information pertaining to the status of the recent recommendations which the City Manager's Cable Advisory Committee voted upon on August 19th.

We referred the reporter to our on line journal. To this date we have no further information to report. We did re-request a copy of the recommendations as approved at the last meeting and we hope to receive the document soon so we can begin the work of moving forward. We look forward to some closure on this matter so WCCA can really get back to focusing on being the best public access center possible.

Our continued thanks goes out to the cable advisory committee members for all their time and effort. We also send continuous thanks to all of our volunteers, members, and friends of WCCA for your letters to the city and editorials, and support through this rather lengthly process.

MD

Community Meeting

Housing Foreclosures: What You Should Know

Our City continues to be hit hard by the foreclosure crisis. We are all affected – owners who lose their properties, tenants who face unmanaged buildings and eventual evictions, and neighbors who see increases in crime and grime.

City Manager O’Brien, with the full support of City Council, has rolled out a comprehensive plan to lessen the impacts of foreclosure on our City. This plan is flexible so as to respond to the changing foreclosure scene.

Working on the advice of Lorraine Laurie and Green Island Residents Group, Inc., we have scheduled a meeting for neighbors to learn more about foreclosures, our City’s response, and how each of us can help ourselves and our neighborhood.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25TH

6:30 – 7:30 pm
25 MEADE STREET
(Health and Code Building)

Questions? Can’t attend, but want some information?
Call Councilor Barbara Haller, 508 414-0266