Submitted by Bedford Television
In opening Monday night’s Selectmen’s meeting, out-going Chairman Bill Moonan noted that the meeting was the second one videotaped by Bedford Television, adding a hope that other town boards would soon avail themselves of the opportunity to share their proceedings. Gavel-to-gavel coverage of Bedford Selectmen’s meetings began on March 3.
After a lengthy planning process, the Town contracted with Valley Communications of Chicopee to equip the Selectmen’s meeting room with cameras and a video control panel. The four-cameras that peer into the meeting room and a full control panel are operated by Bedford TV, the Town’s contracted Public Access/Education/Government (PEG) cable provider.
While live streaming of the meetings may be possible in the future, currently Bedford TV records its meetings live to tape.
Greg Dolan, Bedford TV’s Production Director, said in a telephone interview, “We’ve waited for this to happen for a long time and are excited to make government more transparent to the community.”
“I campaigned on the importance of making meetings available on cable TV,” said Moonan. “Perhaps having this equipment wired and ready will encourage other boards and committees to cablecast their meetings from the Selectmen’s room.”
When to Watch
The meetings will be aired on Comcast’s channel 99 and Verizon’s channel 40 on Thursdays at 6:30 pm. In addition, the meetings will be posted to Bedford TV’s YouTube feed, https://www.youtube.com/user/BedfordTVMA and a feed will be available on The Bedford Citizen’s website.
Bedford TV is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community access television station serving the town of Bedford. It provides public, education and government (PEG) access television channels (Comcast channels 8 and 99, Verizon channels 38 and 40) along with the community bulletin board (Comcast channel 9/Verizon channel 39). The studio is centrally located at Old Town Hall, 16 South Rd. Learn more about Bedford TV at https://bedford.tv or by stopping by the studio. Call (781) 275-5004 for hours and directions.
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“one of the room’s four cameras is visible above the wainscoting”
The Nattering Nitpicker in my Noggin’s Nook told me:
Wainscoting: “wooden panels that cover the lower part of the walls of a room”
That would be the portion of the wall paneling below the
Dado/Chair rail: “a long, thin piece of decorative wood fixed about one metre above the floor along all the walls of a room”… which is chest-high on the seated selectmen in the image.
It’s definitely much more visible above the apparent Crown Moulding.
Ummm, from Wikipedia: Crown molding is typically applied along the seams where a ceiling meets a wall. Usually it is not placed flush against the wall nor against the ceiling. Instead, when viewed from the molding’s end (or as a cross-section), it, the ceiling, and the wall form a “hollow” triangle. This adds a difficulty to the installation process, namely the need for complex cuts to form corners where two walls meet.
Also, wainscot can be quite tall; think of Olde English interiors.
That said, thanks for the comment; it’s one of the most entertaining we’ve gotten!