2/12/2013 CABLE AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE Minutes

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Mashnee Common Andrew Eliason welcomed Amy Davies and said when he saw the Christmas Parade telecast he said this was progress. Any Davies addressed the meeting and said: • Mashpee TV will be doing more outreach but she wants to encourage residents to come in on their own and use the equipment. • Mashpee TV will be providing services for Community I ealth Center of Cape Cod. Amy would like to see Mashpee TV partner with different organizations.to produce programming. • Building coning along very well, so they will soon be open. They hope to move in April; install equipment in studio and break in ever ything; .nd hopefully May 'will be opening.date, 0 Technical aspects...still in progress of choosing a vendor. Vendors used have been fairly local. 0 Any said down the road when they are ready to make some changes in the Control Room at Town Hall she would like to k with MCAT about it since MCAT has the experience in this regard. 0 Andrew commented that during past license negotiations a college channel was.added. Amy said that space is not.available to us. Cape Cod Coir munity College has run Channel 98 for years,but recently ceased cablecastiug. Then CapeSpan was formed and plans to use as a regional channel. • Any visited the High School and hopefully she will get there interested in Mashpee TV programs. 0 10 a.m. on Friday, F a nmTy 1.5'x`,Any will do a presentation at the Senior Center. Right now Mashpee TV running Channel 99 for re-plays of the government meetings but after they Mart up operations then they'll have live coverage of some of the meetings. • once things settled down,Any said she will be doing some training and going through procedures for meetings being telecast. These training/procedure sessions will be given to Control Room technicians and those conducting meetings. Prior to joining Mashpee TV,Amy said she started out as a community producer at CT3 TV. She worked for Cable I l Dews for a few years. She worked for about i l gears at Cape Cod Community Media Center; and the past year she worked for the Town of Dennis as their media specialist. Andre r Eli son's Comments re Control Room Andre'w offered following brief comments on the history and some of the problems facing the Control Room; 0 Andrew e ! ined that the Control Room was built on a"shoe string"and Bill Shay single-handedly did the Control Room set-up. 0 Upgrades recently done to the Control Room were done by Valley Communications. 0 Sound problems exist with 2 microphones in the Selectmen Meeting Room 1. 0 DVD recorder doesn't work well in the Control Room. Any said commercial DVDs do take a moment to start. Andrew said there is a master switch that could/should he used to turn off the cameras but FM is attached to it... FM has to be plugged into mother system. Finally,Andrew asked about the stags of the Board of Directors of Mashpee TV and whether there was a copy of the Charter. Joyce Mason advised there are 3 members on the Board who intend to stag on. Joyce said she will check and if she has a copy of the Charter she will send a copy out to Andrew. Andrew suggested it may b I. interesting to ask Mr.Vaccaro to come to a future MCAT rneetmng. Next Meed The next MCAT meeting is to be held l p.m.on Tuesday, March 12, 2013,Town Hall Meeting Room 1. Adiournment...Lolita McCr y motioned to adjourn the meeting Andrew Eliason seconded the notion; and the motion unanimously pas ed. The meeting adjourned at 1:50 p.m. spectfuiiy submitted, can Gifiberti, Recording Secretary