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  • FPAC-TV to Run “Democracy Now!” News

    FPAC-TV to Run “Democracy Now!” News
    FPAC-TV to begin airing Democracy Now! news
    FPAC-TV to begin telecasting "Democracy Now!" news weekday mornings starting August 2011.

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – In a press release, Bill McColgan, (Executive Director of Framingham Public Access), announced FPAC-TV will begin carrying the daily, independent, award-winning news program, “Democracy Now!”

    According to McColgan, FPAC-TV received a “very large number of requests” from Framingham residents to have the show broadcast on the town’s public access station.

    The show is scheduled to air weekdays (Monday through Friday) at 8:00 a.m. beginning the first week of August.

    The program, which offers “a perspective not seen in U.S.corporate-sponsored [news] media” is hosted by (more…)

    Randy Harris

    July 29, 2011
    General Interest
    Amy Goodman, Bill McColgan, comcast, Democracy Now, FPAC-TV, Fuller Middle School, Juan Gonzalez, public access, rcn, verizon
  • Framingham Cable “Deals”

    Framingham Cable “Deals”

    FRAMINGHAM, MA – Ever since Community Cablevision came to town in the 1970’s, one-by-one, most people took down the rabbit ears or roof-top antennae and ran coaxial cable into their homes instead.

    1979 - Framingham Community Cablevision logo
    Framingham Community Cablevision, logo, (1979).

    Today there are several options available to Framingham residents in regard to how they obtain “tv signal”.

    Choices range from using a digital converter box connected to those old rabbit ears or aerial antennae, by “cable”, by satellite — or a popular choice lately: foregoing traditional formal television programming and watching news, entertainment and other forms of video on an internet connected device.

    Cable providers have long realized that improvements in speed and quality of online video transmission would make people less dependent on traditional television as a media source and today cable tv is usually bundled into some form of broadband cable access.

    Framingham’s cable t.v., internet and residential phone needs are served primarily by three companies;  Comcast, RCN and (more…)

    Randy Harris

    May 14, 2010
    Technology
    2010, cable tv, cablevision, comcast, fios, framingham cable, internet, pricing, rcn, verizon, xfinity

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