Scituate Community Television Advisory Board Minutes

Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - - 6:00 PM
Meeting date: 
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

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Scituate Community Television Advisory Board Minutes

Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - - 6:00 PM

Location: DPW Office Conference Area

1. Meeting called to order - - 6:06 In attendance; Mike Davis, Al Bangert, Rich Long, Tracy

Kiddie, Ed Fiddler

2. Acceptance ofthe Agenda - - Motioned / Second - - Approved

3. Approval ofthe Minutes ofMarch 31st meeting - - Motioned / Second - - Approved

4. Broadcasting School Committee Meetings (15 minutes)

a. Results of discussion with School Committee members - Ed

i. Ed discussed his conversations with School Committee member and Selectmen.

- There seemed to be a positive response to improving quality and going live.

b. Funding - Rich and John

i. John commented he also had a conversation with the School Committee

Chairman and Superintendent. John presented a proposal from Access AIV for

$24,964 to purchase a 3-camera portable system including microphones for each

school committee member, superintendents' table, and the public.

ii. Al will take the information and draft a proposal to address "improving the

quality of school committee meetings" with this proposal.

5. Review and finalize Mission &Goals (2 minutes)

i. Al presented the SCTV Mission Draft with the "civil and creative environment

form one and all" clause.

11. Ed commented on item 3 under Committee Goals. Recommend the language be

more like "foster and promote" and "remove impediments" to producing and

developing content for volunteers. Rather than produce content. All agreed and

Al will draft new language towards that goal.

iii. Tracy added that item 4 shouldn't use the term "analog" because all cable

channels are digital. Ed asked about if this was more of a "year" goal rather than

a mission goal. AI will rewrite to focus on our role to help improve overall

quality.

6. Status on new series: "I always wanted to do that..." (5 minutes)

i. Mike reviewed the plan regarding this new program. PSA has been created and

he and Al would be regarding a spot sometime in May.

7. Executive Director updates, including: (20 minutes)

a. Tracking: Analog transmission issues and quality complaints

i. John presented a list of "issues" and discussed how these are reported. In most

all cases, several calls to Comcast are needed and many emails are sent back and

forth. There is a system of capturing these emails

b. Ballpark costs for digital conversion

i. Part ofthe conversation surrounded the HD conversion and that no local channels

areHD.

c. Studio activities

i. Many activities over the past month.

8. Other matters that may come before the Committee (10 Minutes)

i. None

9. Topics for May 26th meeting (5 minutes)

i. Send to AI if anyone has items they would like discussed.

10. Adjournment - - 7:50

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SCTV Comcast Signal Issues 4/13 - Current

Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 9:35 AM

We are still having issues with live feed from Town Hall. Last nights Board of

Selectmen meeting went live for about 5 minutes and then kicked back to the

feed from the server at the High School. Many complaints and phone calls.

On Apr 30,2013, at 8:57 PM

FYI: There will be a short interruption of service tomorrow morning, Wednesday

May 1st, between 9:30am and 1Dam. There is a damaged cable in front of the

police station that we need to cut over to new cable.

Sent: Thursday, November 14,2013 10:20 AM

We are having a problem here with ghosting and fluttering again on Comcast

Channels 8, 9 and 22. For some reason it has been getting worse here over the

last few days. The ticket number is: JB5835650

Sent: Monday, November 25,2013 11:34 AM

Got to the Scituate Cable lV station this morning at 8am and the broadcast

signal for Comcast Channel 8 is pretty bad. Lots of white spots and a ghost

image is running through all the time now. Breaking up every five minutes or so.

Channel 9 and Channel 22 have lots of white spots but the overall signal is not

breaking up.

Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 8:37 AM

The ghost sweeping on Comcast Channels 8, 9 and 22 has stepped up in the

last few days. I noticed this when Eric was here two weeks ago but it was not

bad then. It is bad now. I have attached videos I just recorded of all three

Comcast Cable TV channels here in Scituate.

Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 3:42PM

We had several citizens and Town Officials tell us that last weeks Board of

Selectmen meeting was not broadcasting live from Town Hall on Comcast

Channel 9 in Scituate. There has also been a lot of white specks/white lines

interference on Comcast Channel 8 in the last few days.

On Aug 8, 2014, at 3:59 PM,

Two of our Comcast Community lV channels (Comcast Channels 9 & 22) have

gone down in the last few hours. I called and created a ticket CR #387114991

and Mark told me he would try to get a tech here today if possible.

Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 201402:17 PM

Looks like a blackout of Comcast Channels 8, 9 and 22 in Scituate!

November 28, 2014 12:39:41 PM

Right now we have a channel assignment problem with our Comcast bands here

in Scituate. The signal for Comcast Channel 8 is gone (all black screen and no

audio) and the signal from Comcast Channel 9 is broadcasting on both Channel

9 and Channel 22.

On Jan 21,2015, at 11:36 AM

Ticket number for current Comcast situation in Scituate is JB 9791391. Looks

like all three of the Comcast Community Tv channels are currently out. I checked

and double checked our end- all our signals all leaving the mods.

Sent: Monday, March 16,20159:29 AM

I am contacting you today because we are currently blacked out again on

Comcast channel 22. This problem started months ago when there was a

. random signal switch happening with Comcast Channels 9 and 22 over

Thanksgiving. For some reason Comcast channel 9 was broadcasting on both

channel 9 and channel 22 on a irregular and interruptive basis 24/7. The signals

started switching out more reqularly and occasionally leaving Comcast channel

22 blacked-out. I have had Comcast techs here on three separate occasions

since then- the problem seems to get solved for a day or two and then it starts

again. The techs are always helpful and patient but this problem is actually

getting much worse. Now it is mostly blacked out on Channel 22.

Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 12:35 PM

Everything has been working well until about an hour ago whenwe lost the audio

for Comcast Channel 8. Currently it loud white noise

On Apr 13,2015, at 1:07 PM

Last night I noticed intermittent line and signal spiking on Comcast channels 8

and 9- horizontal lines crossing the screen and spiking the both the video and

audio signal. It has been continuing intermittently again today. Comcast channel

22 looks bad. The image is grainy and fuzzy, strobing and the audio is worse

than usual. I have attached a video.

 

 

Scituate High School- SClV 10

ATTN: John Roser

606 Chief Justice Cushing Hwy

Scituate, MA 02066

Date: 4/27/15

 

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