Happy Gobble day

We all have a lot to be thankful for.
Today I was especially thankful for all those things I take for granted. Thanks to God. Thanks for my family, my church community, friends, health, work, my unique talents, civic community, everything to numerous and some to private to write about. My life. Accompanying these thanks for the many gifts I have, I also pray for forgiveness, mercy and HIS grace to continue.
Thank you too.

WCCA TV appreciates your support

Hope to see you at the HARVEST MOON DINNER DANCE. Tell your friends to call today for tickets there is only FOUR days left to purchase tickets. This is a fund raiser. Live Music, Exhibition Dance Show, and a wonderful meal, and fun for all. Special surprise raffle for a massage by Karen Nugent.
More info. For tickets call Mauro at : 508-755-1880 ext. 11

WCCA’s Harvest Moon Dinner Dance: Last few days remain to purchase your tickets

Only 5 days remain to purchase your tickets.
I am iviting you to please come to this gala event, to support WCCA TV, enjoy live Jazzed with Joe DAngelo, John Murzycki, Pete Dees, and me and maybe some other local music greats, watch some professional exhibition dancing ( al la dancing with the stars Ballroom and Latin ), and enjoy a wonder meal, while in the company of people who also support WCCA TV community media /public access. Proceeds to benfit WCCA TV’s Youth Media programming and our technology center.
Harvest Moon Dinner Dance
Friday, November 20, 2009 cocktail hour with live Jazz starts at 6PM, Dinner at 7, show at 8PM. Knights of Columbus Hall 44 N. Circuit Ave, Worcester
Call me for tickets: 508-755-1880 ext. 11
Thanks for your support
Mauro
We hope to see you there.

RSS and Blogrolls

RSS feeds seem to sometimes be fickle and buggy. Can any one out there explain the following:
Things on our Drupal based website seem to be at the proper enabled and activated settings, to allow for RSS to be working properly. Yet, for example, when you visit Worcester blogroll, as well as other similarly purposed sites, in order to find WCCA’s or WCCA’sMauro’s Blog you have to scroll down to entries made about 4 weeks ago, to find what looks like an site with no recent activity. Clicking on the Link for it it takes you the most recent update which was made a couple of days ago. There are many entries each week.

How can we get it to update properly?

Any thoughts or advice, other than some sites are just buggy, on how to resolve that problem? I understand others have had similar experiences.

VOTE TODAY

Please vote today. Remember also to consider who of the council and candidates have spoken up and fought for WCCA TV during the cable franchise negotiations. As a window into our community, Public Access television contributes to the transparency of the city at large as it also nurtures the democratic process through a free speech medium where the community produces their on television programming to outreach, connect and impact and contributes to the free flow of news and information. Candidates that stand tall for public access stations such as WCCA TV, stand tall for your voice and your empowerment.

Penny Dreadful TODAY at WCCA TV’s Spooktacular Shilling Shockers Marathon

The TV marathon begins at noon time. Penny and her crew of horrifying characters will be in our studio live from 3-8PM. WCCA will be asking for donations to help fund our Youth Programming initiatives and community computer lab.
Happy Halloween !

Not really a TV quiz…. more of a learning op

Take this quiz, it is no gimmick, purley educational at wcca dot com
Enjoy

WCCA TV’s website provides some insight on how others have learned to better outreach, connect, impact and build community. Are you a WCCA member?

WCCA TV 13 Halloween Spooktacular with Penny Dreadful

This Friday, October 30th, live and in person or shall we say in spookishness.
Penny Dreadful and her spooky crew will be live in WCCA TV 13’s studio this Friday, October 30, 2009, she is hosting a live “Shilling Shockers” Marathon that can be viewed on WCCA TV 13 or via WCCA’s webcast at wccatv.com , or you can come down to our studios at 415 Main street and meet her in person. Wear you spookiest costume and you may end up on the TV screen with Penny, ooooo scary ! WCCA TV will playing hours of Penny’s show Shilling Shockers from about 12 noon to 8 PM. Penny will be in our studio from 3:00 to 7PM. The event is in part a fun-d raiser for WCCA’s Youth Media programing, donations will be welcome but not mandatory. Just have fun. WCCA TV is celebrating it’s 25th Anniverary this year. So we are festive for sure.

Public Access Television: A Community Anchor Institution

Note to City, State and Federal legislators, national and community leaders:
Say YES to recognizing that Public Access Community Media Television stations such as WCCA TV 13, in Worcester, as Anchor Instituions. These intsitutions work to forster democracy through empowering citiznes with access to tools, information and education need to share and distribute news, information, civic/public awarness and more.
Take a look at WCCA TV 13’s latest post. Notice the programming creatived by people from our neighborhoods. Volumes of hours of candidate debates, public awarness, educational, shows, and news and information. WCCA TV holds classes and workshops and offers plenty of opprtunities for internshiop experiential learning as well as promoting Worcester in a uniquely local and grassroots way. Be sure to work to ensure future franchise funding provisions for this important and valuable resource and community anchor instituion is maintained and protected. Save public access TV BY, FOR and OF the PEOPLE.
Thanks for your support.

Yes to WCCA TV 13 , celebrating 25 years of public access in Worcester

Yes, to WCCA TV 13, “The People’s Channel”, celebrating 25 years of dedicated public access/community media public service in the city of Worcester, MA.

I want to invite you to please attend our party where there will be “dancing with the stars”. A Harvest Moon Dinner Dance. It’s a celebration you will not want to miss.
We are accepting support ads for our program booklet. Tickets are also available at WCCA TV. Call 508-755-1880 ext 11 for details or visit wccatv.com for more information.

HARVEST MOON DINNER DANCE
November 20, 2009 (Friday)
Joe DAngelo and JAZZED UP
Exhibition Ball room and latin dance presented by
Arthur Murray School of Dance and Ritmos Dance Acadamy
Dinner
at the Knights of Columbus Hall North Circut Ave, Worcester, MA
Cocktail Hour at 6PM ( with music ) Dinner at 7PM, Dance show at 8PM
Call 508-755-1880 ext 11 for tickets and information
visit wccatv[dot]com for further info.

The station has grown leaps and bounds over the past twenty five years. In every phase, the types of diverse community programming and topics topics covered, the levels of memberships, partner organizations, community collaboratives, professional services, public sevices, TV and computer technology and training, studio facilities, viewer ship, and more. All types of various programs are presented on channel 13, that are produced by your neighbors, the stars from your backyard. You don’t have to be spoon fed TV shows or watch TV made by those with a lot of money. You can make it yourself at WCCA TV. We provide the training, the facility and the staff to help encourage you along the way. It is YOUR VISION TELEVISION, we coined it, you made it a reality.

WCCA TV presents programing that reflects the interest of the citizens of Worcester. It is the only station in Worcester that is TV BY, FOR, and OF, the PEOPLE.

A cutting edge pioneer in the industry, WCCA TV was one of the very first TV stations in Massachusetts to upload full length video on line and to place that technology in the hands of Worcester citiznes who participate. In fact, WCCA TV has one the largest on-line archived community pages containing full length video works in the nation.

During my ninteen plus years at WCCA, I have seen many WCCA interns, students and volunteers develop career skills and move on to work as professionals in the TV or movie industry in Massachusetts, New York, Hollywood and other creative centers. Today I see quite a few heading in those same directions who involved at WCCA TV.

Each day, I am pleased to continue to see and work with organizations who full advantage of WCCA cable and webcast services that helped them achieve valuable outreach. Many individuals, artist, religious, activist, politicos, municipal leaders, business interest, educators, and cutural and social service institutions utilize the station’s facility to promote events, causes, or share cultural experiences and more. Seriously watch for a week and you will be amazed at what the people of Worcester are doing at WCCA TV.

Each day WCCA TV is elevating someone or some cause or program. While offering a window in Worcester. That all translates to economic impact and community development. The work accomplished at WCCA every day is one that nurtures democracy, at a grass roots and organic level, through a free flow of news and information coming directly from the people, the true source, the heart and fiber of this city our communities and neighborhoods.

Even though WCCA communty programs just won three new Pegasus awards, in 2009, two for community productions and one for our website. We are not without challenges.

In order to meet community media needs at large, WCCA intends to renovate it’s Youth Prodcution Studios in the basement of our building and to also improve our computer and digital technology resources which will enable us to help more community memebrs while keeping staff levels at a minimal. This is where your help and support means so much to us. We need your help to continue. When you purchase just a couple of tickets for our Harvest Moon Dinner Dance, or a page in the event’s program book you will help make that possible. Plus we’ll be celebrating with YOU. We are most gratful to you for your participation, viewership, support.

I really hope you will celebrate this mile stone for WCCA ,as an anchor instituion in Worcester celebrating 25 years as a community resource, by attending our “HARVEST MOON DINNER DANCE” fund rasier. Proceeds will benefit our Youth and Web technology programming. There will be a fantastic dinner, live world class music, and exhibition dancing presented by the Arthur Murray Dance Studios, and the Ritmos Dance Acadamy.

It’s a celebration you will not want to miss.
We are accepting support ads for our program booklet. Tickets are also available at WCCA TV. Call 508-755-1880 ext 11 for details or visit wccatv.com for more information.

Stand tall and show your support for WCCA TV, public access / community media, in Worcester, by being a part of this fabulous celebration.

HARVEST MOON DINNER DANCE
November 20, 2009 (Friday)
Legendary Joe DAngelo and JAZZED UP
Exhibition Ball room and latin dance presented by
Arthur Murray School of Dance and Ritmos Dance Acadamy
Dinner
at the Knights of Columbus Hall North Circut Ave, Worcester, MA
Cocktail Hour at 6PM ( with music ) Dinner at 7PM, Dance show at 8PM
Call 508-755-1880 ext 11 for tickets and information
visit wccatv[dot]com for further info.
SAVE THE DATE !