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Community must keep public access programming healthy

Community must keep public access programming healthy

Amid changing circumstances, BCTV wants its viewers to participate in community life — wherever, however, and whenever they want. But that continued coverage will require less reliance on cable subsidies and more support from towns and individual donors.

Last year, Brattleboro Community Television went before selectboards in our service area for the first time to request funding to support video coverage of municipal meetings and Representative Town Meeting.

The request was initiated in response to a proposed change by the Federal Communications Commission to the Cable Act, which established cable-subscriber fees as the primary source of support for public access television in 1984.

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DeGray, Bouboulis made BCTV better

As the town of Brattleboro welcomes a new Selectboard, we acknowledge the contributions that outgoing members Dick DeGray and Dora Bouboulis made to Brattleboro Community Television (BCTV) during their tenures on the board. Both advocated using BCTV to provide increased transparency and public involvement in local government. Dick and...

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