ORCTV Programming Winter 2012
Welcome to the New Year, 2012! ORCTV's staff has been shaking off the cold and keeping busy with plenty of new programming for viewers to watch when the cold weather is keeping us inside.
Many of ORCTV's regular producers and contributors have been busy these past few months with plans to bring our viewers more great programming in the coming months. Robbi Around Town's producers have been getting out of the studio and hitting the streets as they bring a new on location look to their talk show. February will mark their one year anniversary producing their program here at ORCTV. ORCTV member Don Cuddy and ORCTV Board member Charlie Radville have been very busy over the past year contributing monthly segments of Mr. Cuddy's Neighbor to Neighbor program, collecting the oral history of both the Tri-Town area as well as stories from throughout the South Coast. Member Derek DeCosta continues to add new twists to his Be Your Own Gym program adding new exercises and workout routines on a regular basis.
After slowing down a bit over the holiday season, our local town governments are back in full swing. Old Rochester Community Television will continue to bring Tri-Town viewers a variety of local meetings from various committees and boards here in the Tri-Towns. With elections nearing viewers should also look for local candidate forums and TV spots to help them make informed decisions at the ballot box this spring. Town meetings will be here before we know it and ORCTV is committed once again to bringing viewers in Marion, Mattapoisett and Rochester gavel to gavel coverage of these events.
The holiday season is a busy time of year in our local school system and this past year was no exception. ORCTV's Educational Television channel has a wide range of concerts, pageants and other special holiday programs airing at the moment from pre-school to high school. Parent Tom Bliss continues to be a big supporter of both ORCTV and music education in the Tri-Town school system contributing his tapings of local youth and school concerts as well as those of the New England Conservatory. We would like to thank everyone who has contributed programming to our ETV channel over the past few months and encourage everyone involved in the local school system to continue their work in bringing the classroom into your living rooms.
ORCTV's staff would like to thank everyone who came out for our community public service announcement days in October and for our recent holiday greetings week this past December. These events brought several hundred people into our 345 Front St. studios, with many filming segments during for each. Participants ranged in age from seniors to toddlers as local individuals and groups helped spread both holiday cheer as well as messages about their organizations and causes to our viewers. We look forward to seeing most of these folks back in the future as these events routinely bring many of the same faces back to ORCTV again and again.
One last programming reminder for Tri-Town residents, please look for our fourth annual ORCTV Live Telethon. ORCTV, along with our partner group The Showstoppers and host Paul Sardinha will bring a variety of musical performers, dancers and other entertaining acts to our audience's homes from our studio over the course of four hours. This live broadcast is always a fun event for the staff as well as a big hit with the public. We look forward to bringing this year's telethon to you and to serving you throughout the coming New Year. If you have any programming questions please feel free to call me at the studio. Our number is 508-748-1600.
