Around Town

Catch the Latest Episodes of Inside Watertown Featuring Local Organizations

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Hear from the coordinator of the Hatch Makerspace and learn about what the Watertown Library has to offer for businesses on the latest episode of Inside Watertown. The Watertown Cable show highlights what local organizations, non-profits and town departments are doing, and is hosted by Chamber of Commerce Community Liaison Paul Airasian and Watertown News Editor Charlie Breitrose

The guests for Episode 4 were Brita Zitin, the Watertown Library’s Digital Services Librarian, who talked about all the online resources available for businesses, business people, those looking to change careers and more. We also spoke with Liz Helfer, the coordinator of the Hatch Makerspace where people can learn skills and be creative. Hatch has a variety of machines to use such as sewing machines, 3-D printers and vinyl cutters. Episode 3 features Watertown Veterans Services Officer Mark Comeiro and Bree Harvey from the Mount Auburn Cemetery.

Elections

Watertown Cable Airing Interviews with Candidates in Town Election

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The Town Election is a month away, and you can learn about the candidates from the candidate interviews conducted by Watertown Cable. 

Host Bob Kaprielian sat down with each of the candidates in contested races for Town Council, School Committee and Board of Library Trustees. The interviews can be watched online by clicking here: http://wcatv.org/election-2017/

Watertown Cable will be airing the interviews on its Local Cable Channels. The Town Council At-Large, Town Council President, and Town Council District Candidates will all be airing on WCA-TV’s Government Channel. Comcast: Channel 99

RCN: Channel 13

Stream Online: wcatv.org/channel/government/

To see the schedule, click on the above link, select “Schedule”, and then select “Government Channel” to see the exact times which videos will air. 

The School Committee and Library Board of trustee videos will be airing on WCA-TV’s Education Channel. Comcast: Channel 8

RCN: Channel 15

Streaming Online: wcatv.org/education-channel/

To see the schedule, click on the above link, select “Schedule”, and then select “Education Channel” to see the exact times the videos will air.

Election 2017

Hear from Those Running for Council, School Committee at 2 Candidate Forums

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Watertown News and Watertown Cable Access will host a pair of candidate forums featuring the people running for Town Councilor At-Large and School Committee in the Town Election. The forums will be held in the Watertown Savings Bank Room at the Watertown Free Public Library, 123 Main Street, beginning at 6:30 p.m., and will also be broadcast live on Watertown Cable. The forums will be rebroadcast on later dates. The first forum will be on Thursday, Oct. 12, and it will include the six candidates for the four-year School Committee seats.

Around Town

Find Out About Workshops, Volunteering at Watertown Cable Access

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Watertown Cable Access Corp. (WCA-TV) will be having an open house on Wednesday, October 25th from 6 pm to 9 pm. Residents of Watertown are invited to come check out Watertown’s own cable access station to take a tour of the studio and learn about workshops and volunteer opportunities, WCA-TV announced. Interested in getting involved in Watertown’s only cable news program? Our news crew will have a “pop up newsroom” where you can pitch story ideas or find out how to get involved with Watertown Weekly News.

Government

Bill in Legislature Would Improve Local Cable Quality, Make Listings Easier to Use

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The State Legislature is considering a bill to support community access television and provide high-definition programing and include detailed listings on the cable guides. 

The bill, known as “An Act supporting community access television,” is bill S.1857 in the Senate and H.2682 in the House of Representatives. Helen Chatel, executive director of Watertown Cable Access, said that currently when you look up WCA-TV’s three channels the cable guide programs are listed as “community, eduction or government access.” “This is useless to cable subscribers looking for the latest showing of town council or school committee,” Chatel said. “Imagine, how convenient it would be to know that your local cable access is airing a Special Town Council meeting, or a budget hearing live.” It would also be easier to find when a locally-produced show or a high school sporting event will air.

Around Town

Learn How to Make Television Shows Through Free Watertown Cable Classes

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Residents of Watertown are invited to sign up for Watertown Cable Access Television’s free summer workshops beginning on August 1, WCA-TV announced. Below you will find a list of the workshops and their descriptions. In order to participate, you must sign up to become a member of WCA-TV at https://myisaac.com/membersignup?loc_id=5863f8ad1e280. Once you have signed up and been approved by a staff member, login to myisaac.com to register for a workshop. Multi-Camera Studio Production

4 Tuesdays Aug.

Around Town

Cable Show Will Tell the Story of One of Watertown’s Fallen Veterans

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For years, Bob Kaprielian has been interviewing Watertown’s veterans to find out about the stories of serving in the United States military, but his latest episode of A Veteran’s Story will be different because it focuses on one of the town’s fallen heroes. Kaprielian interviewed family members, friends and those who were impacted by Lt. Paul Sullivan, who died in action in Vietnam on Aug. 9, 1968. Sullivan went into the Army Rangers and he trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, before being shipped to Vietnam. He arrived during some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War.

Around Town

New Local Cable Show Puts Spotlight on Groups Making a Difference in Watertown

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A new show debuted on Watertown Cable on Thursday called Inside Watertown hosted by longtime local business and community leader Paul Airasian and your’s truly, Charlie Breitrose, editor of Watertown News. Paul and I have worked together a number of times beginning when I was editor of Watertown Patch and he was hosting Watertown Business Report on WCA-TV. That collaboration has continued, most recently when I helped in the offices of the Watertown-Belmont Chamber of Commerce during Paul’s time as executive director. When he moved on from the chamber, we looked around for other ways to work together and he came up with the idea of a local cable show. I had been a guest on Paul’s previous show, but we wanted to look at Watertown from a broader perspective.