A blast from the past this week! A new B-52's video as well as one from the Video Jam archives. Watch and see how've they've changed.

1. The Cool Kids
   Black Mags
2. Sally Anthony
   So Long
3. The B-52's
   Funplex
4. The B-52's (from the Video Jam archives!)
   debbie
5. Love in October
   Petrula the Destroyer
6. Barenaked Ladies
   Brian Wilson

1. Landon
   Only 20
   & Red Lipstick
2. Jimmy Buffet
   1 Particular Harbor
3. Greyboy Allstars
   Still Waiting
4. K'Naan
   Strugglin'
5. Jen Hanson
   '73
6. Maroon5
   Makes Me Wonder
   & Wake Up Call

Send a message to Tracy telling her if you saw the show on a local channel or if you watched it on WCCA's streaming video on the internet. tracy@wccatv.org

1. Spoon
   Don't You Evah
2. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
   Please Read the Letter
3. Minus the Bear
   Throwin' Shapes
4. These New Puritans
   Elvis
5. The Last Shadow Puppets
   The Age of Understatement
6. Clinic
   The Witch
7. American Princes
   Real Love
8. NeedtoBreathe
   Washed by the Water

Videos of Guster and Barenaked Ladies taped at WXLO FM 104.5 in Worcester!

1. Sink to See
   Speakers
2. Cross Canadian Ragweed
   I Believe
3. Someone Still Love You Boris Y
   Think I Wann Die
4. Merlin Moon
   Poppy Fields
5. Guster
   performs 2 songs live at WXLO Radio 104.5 in Worcester, MA
6. Barenaked Ladies
   "Crazy" taped live at WXLO Radio 104.5 in Worcester, MA

Did you know that Video Jam, produced at WCCA, airs across the country 36 times a week?

In Massachusetts, the show airs 5 times a week in Worcester (Ch13, 57,000 households); 3 times a week in Medfield (Ch8, 10,000 households); 3 times a week in Hudson and Stowe (Ch8); 3 times a week in Amherst (Ch12, 7,500 households); 3 times a week in Ashburnham, Ashby, and Westminster (Ch8, 8,500 households); 3 times a week in Townsend (Ch8, 8,000 households); and 3 times a week in Spencer (Ch11, 8,000 households).

Last month the show was added to the "Residence Life" channel at Drake University in Des Moines, where it airs once a week to 3,000 students.

In California, it's carried 3 times a week by Berkeley's Channel 25, which goes out to 20,000 households.

Video Jam is seen 3 times a week by the 100,000 households surrounding Londonderry, New Hampshire.

Fargo, North Dakota's Channel 12 carries the show 3 times a week to 30,000 households.

Finally, the show goes out to the 182,000 households around New Haven, Connecticut, 3 times a week.

Not bad for a locally-produced show!

Video Jam ANIMATION SPECIAL #2

1. American Prines
   Never Grow Old
2. Malajube
   Montreal
3. Jars of Clay (Christian Rock)
   Love Came Down at Christmas
4. Pirates of the Mississippi (Country)
   Kickin' Up Dust
5. Weird Al Yankovic
   Don't Download This Song
6. Weird Al Yankovic
   I'll Sue Ya
7. The Knife
   Like a Pen
8. Eastern Conference Champions
   The Box

This week's Video Jam show is the first ANIMATION SPECIAL! The real life host, Tracy, presents 7 videos. All of them animation!
If you like this all animation special send an email to Tracy, tracy@wccatv.org , telling her you want to see more animation.

1. American Prines
   Never Grow Old
2. Robyn Hitchcock
   Adventure Rocketship
3. The Apples in Stereo
   Can You Feel It?
4. Weird Al Yankovic
   Do I Creep You Out
5. The Meat Puppets
   On the Rise
6. Mum
   They Made Frogs...
7. Of Montreal
   Gronlandic Edit

1. The Moog
   Everybody Wants
2. Bell XI
   Rocky Took a Lover
3. The Apples in Stereo
   Energy
4. Salvador Santana Band
   Summer's Day
5. School of Language
   Rockist
6. Headlights
   Cherry Tulips
7. Five Times August
   The Good Life
8. Mica Roberts
   Things a Mama Don't Know

Video Jam, WCCA TV 's local originated music video show, created by Mauro DePasquale and hosted by Tracy Foley, has been asked to present their show on the Residence Life Channel 7 at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa! Video Jam has produced over 500 shows since 1992 and it is seen not only in Massachusetts, but New Hampshire, California, North Dakota, and now Iowa!

This episode of Video Jam includes an interview with the Snow Ghost!

Video: Download the mp4 video (5MB) or see other formats.

Eastern Conference Champions: The Box

Shelby Lynne: Anyone Who Had a Heart

Foals: Balloons

Ferras: Hollywood's Not America

The Brunettes: B-A-B-Y

Tim McGraw: Susupicious

Chemical Bros.: Salmon Dance

This week's Video Jam is our 500th show! 500 shows of great Eclectic music videos. YAHOO!

1. Jill Criscuolo
   Insane
2. British Sea Power
   Waving Flags
3. Matt Nathanson
   Car Crash
4. Willie Nelson
   Gravedigger
5. Radiohead
   Bodysnatchers
6. Taxi Doll
   Waiting

This week's show is a repeat of last week's, February 11th. Next week will be a very special occasion for Video Jam. Don't miss it!

A special from the Video Jam archives this week.
R.E.M.'s Crush with Eyeliner.

Peter Francis: Shooting Star

A Farewell Rescue: Pretty, Cut and Dry

Hurt: Ten Ton Brick

Garth Brooks and Huey Lewis: Working for a Living

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Weird Al Yankovic: I'll Sue Ya

Weird Al Yankovic: White and Nerdy

R.E.M.:Crush with Eyeliner

Watch one of Tracy's favorite Video Jam shows featuring Rookie of the Year, Lenny Kravitz, and Jon Bon Jovi.

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1. Blind Boys of Alabama
   
   Free at Last
   
   
2. The Faint
   
   I Disappear
   
   
3. The Thermals
   
   Returning to the Fold
   
   
4. Maritime
   
   Guns of Navarone
   
   
5. John Tesh
   
   Overture
   
   
6. Nancy Fullforce
   
   Dead and Alive
   
   
7. Lightspeed Champion
   
   Tell Me What It's Worth
   
   
8. The Kills
   
   U.R.A. Fever
   
   
9. Sons and Daughters
   
   Gilt Complex
   
   

1. Iron and Wine
   
   Boy with a Coin
   
   
2. The Motion Sick
   
   30 Lives
   
   
3. The Fiery Furnaces
   
   Duplexes of the Dead
   
   
4. Point One
   
   Monochrome Mistress
   
   
5. Modern Skirts
   
   Passadena
   
   
6. Stellar Kart
   
   Innoncent
   
   
7. Hot Chip
   
   Ready for the Floor
   
   
8. JR.
   
   Not a Slave
   
   

1. Rookie of the Year
   
   Liars and Battlelines
   
   
2. Meat Puppets
   
   On the Rise
   
   
3. Lenny Kravitz
   
   I'll Be Waiting
   
   
4. Ryan Bingham
   
   South Side of Heaven
   
   
5. Liam Finn
   
   2nd Chance
   
   
6. Jon Bon Jovi
   
   Til We Ain't Strangers Anymore
   
   
7. Maria Taylor
   
   Song Beneath the Song
   
   

2008 is going to be another dynamic year for Video Jam!

1. Liars
   
   House Clouds
   
   
2. Foreverinmontion
   
   Hot Air Balloon
   
   
3. Maps
   
   To the Sky
   
   
4. Richard Hawley
   
   Serious
   
   
5. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
   
   Gone, Gone, Gone
   
   
6. Maria Taylor
   
   A Good Start
   
   
7. Beep Beep
   
   Executive Foliage
   
   
8. Criteria
   
   Good Luck
   
   

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!

1. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
   
   Gone, Gone, Gone
   
   
2. Nassiri
   
   Happy Birthday Jesus
   
   
3. Jars of Clay
   
   Love Came Down at Christmas
   
   
4. Keith Urban
   
   Everybody
   
   
5. Fiery Furnaces
   
   Navy Nurses
   
   
6. Matt Nathanson
   
   Car Crash
   
   

Parrot Head special! A Jimmy Buffet video!

1. Shout Out Louds
   
   • Impossible (Long Version)
   
   
2. Avalon Superstar
   
   • So Alive!
   
   
3. Racetrack Babies
   
   • The Storm
   
   
4. Jimmy Buffet
   
   • One Particular Harbor
   
   
5. Georgie James
   
   • Need Your Needs
   
   

1. Suburban Legends
   
   • Infectious
   
   
2. Day Away
   
   • I'm Sorry I Told You ...
   
   
3. Jet Lag Jemini
   
   • Run this City
   
   
4. Of Montreal
   
   • Gromlandic Edit
   
   
5. Carbon / Silicon
   
   • The News
   
   
6. Jen Lekman
   
   • Sipping Sweet Nectar
   
   
7. The Frantic
   
   • Audio and Murder
   
   
8. The Good Life
   
   • Lovers Need Lawyers
   
   

At last night's Annual Meeting, WCCA TV13 presented the 2007 program awards.

Viewers' Pick (based on the most votes from WCCA viewers): Snow Ghost Community Show

First runner-up: Video Jam and Video Jam Country. Second runner-up: tie between Flipside and Soapbox.

Staff Pick--Best Overall: tie between Video Jam and Artist Showcase

Staff Pick--Best Community Program (produced without staff assistance): tie between Vietnamese News, Shilling Shockers, and Static Fusion

Staff Pick--Best Public Access Program (produced with staff assistance): tie between Community Vision News and What It’s Worth

Staff Pick honorable mentions: Nacion Musical,
Community Vision NEWS, Albanian Hour, Senior Speak, Young Views Real News, Soapbox

Most-downloaded show of 2007: Snow Ghost Community Show (more than 2000 downloads of episode 1)

Best use of the web: Albanian World (Arben Kamberi's blog)

Runner-up: Teen Central/Young Views Real News (produced by WCCA youth program)

Both Luz Tomey and Jim Racicot were honored for 19 and 17 years with WCCA, respectively.

Pictured above: Tommy Colletta accepts the award for "What It's Worth" while Shannon Senior and Mauro DePasquale look on. Below: Bruce Russell shows the awards he won for "Snow Ghost Community Show."

This week's line-up

1. Girl in a Coma
   
   • Say
   
   
2. Jenny Dalton
   
   • Cadence vs. Hugo V.
   
   
3. Nicole Atkins
   
   • The Way It Is
   
   
4. Of Montreal
   
   • Gromlandic Edit
   
   
5. Daft Punk
   
   • Harder, Better...
   
   
6. Art in Manilla
   
   • Set Words on Fire
   
   
7. Two Gallants
   
   • Despite What You've Been Told
   
   
8. The Good Life
   
   • Heartbroke
   
   

1. The Saps
   
   • Coupe de Grace

2. Jars of Clay
   
   • Love Came Down at Christmas

3. New Found Glory Interview
   at the Palladium in Worcester, Mass.

4. Dave Gahan
   
   • Kingdom

5. Flyleaf
   
   • All Around Me

6. Nurses
   
   • And Now the Curse of Marjorie

Video Jam, WCCA TV's original music video show and more,
has taped an exclusive interview with New Found Glory when they performed in Worcester at the Palladium
on Halloween. The interview is coming soon on Video Jam so stay tuned. The show is cablecast Tuesday nights at 11:30pm and Wednesdays at 11:30am. The show is hosted by Tracy Foley and the New Found Glory interview was conducted by Anne Harris and Anthony DiBenedetto for WCCA TV.

Video Jam Playlist for the week of October 29, 2007 Halloween Spootakular!!!

1. The Go
   
   • You Go Bangin' On

2. Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
   
   • Your Guardian Angel

3. Machine Head
   
   • Now I Lay Thee

4. Airbourne
   
   • Too Much Too Young

5. Chemical Brothers
   
   • Salmon Dance

6. Apples in Stereo
   
   • Can You Feel It

Video Jam, WCCA TV's music video show and more, has a pair of tickets for The Almost for their show in Boston on May 1st.

If you'd like these complimentary tickets, call Tracy Foley 508-755-1880 x 10 or email tracy@wccatv.org.

Showtimes for Video Jam, a local music video show and more, have changed!

Video Jam can now be seen on Mondays at 4pm, Tuesdays at 11:30pm, and Wednesdays at 12 midnight.

Ben Allotey recalls Joe Strummer's appearance on WCCA.

We didn't have to do it, but we did. And it came out good.

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WCCA's Tracy Foley and Mauro DePasquale recall the day that the Clash's Joe Strummer stopped by the studios.

On October 12, 2001, Joe Strummer was in Worcester to play a show. He was at the Owl Shop (tobacconists) on Main Street, noticed WCCA TV13 across the street, and popped in for an interview!