Annual Meeting January 22
This year the SCAT Annual Meeting will include an Award Ceremony hosted by Jimmy Del Ponte to recognize excellence in numerous categories of programming and activity at SCAT. We are accepting nominations for the “Best of 2008” awards among 2008 programs produced by SCAT members (not staff) in the categories below. Individual or series programs may be nominated, and you can nominate your own show if you like.
The categories are: Hot Set Show, Informational Program, Music/Variety/Entertainment,
Youth-produced, and Religious.
Shows may be nominated for more than one category if applicable. After the nominating deadline of January 9, SCAT will announce the three programs with the most nominations in each category on our website. The winner of each category will be announced at the Annual Meeting. To nominate a program, send an email or note to Daniel Marques at membership@access-scat.org specifying your name, the program name, and the category. Only current SCAT members may participate.
One Member Representative position will be open on the Board when John Carreiro steps down after six years of service. If you are interested in serving or would like to nominate someone, please let me know as soon as possible. The usual term is three years.
The Annual Meeting will be a fun evening, with dinner donated by Union Square restaurants beginning at 6:00pm. The one-hour meeting will start promptly at 7:00 and will be cablecast live on Channel 3. You will hear short reports from the SCAT Board, Executive Director, and elected officials. We will elect a Member Representative to the Board, give awards for outstanding programs and volunteers, and certificates to all of SCAT’s series producers. In addition, all attendees will be entered into a raffle for donated prizes. If you have a raffle prize to include, thank you! Please let me know ahead so that the donation can be included in the show credits.
Santa and Mrs. Claus "Live" at SCAT
On December 10, Santa and Mrs. Claus visited Somerville! For an hour and a half children from all over Somerville either came in or called in to the studio to talk to Santa. Jeff Jam opened up the show with a few holiday songs next to the brightly lit Christmas tree. Then Santa and Mary Claus took over with stories about how they met and their lives with the elves at the North Pole. One elf named Zina even came in to say hello to the children.
Many thanks to the crew: Bill, Lindsey, Gui, Daniel, Prince, George B., Matt, Mike, Elizabeth, Cherline, Wendy, Julia, Jeanne, and Hans. A special thanks to JoJo, George W., and Jeff.
Happy holidays from all the members, volunteers, and staff of Somerville Community Access Television.
A Talk by the Maoist Finance Minister of Nepal
Nepal has seen rapid political changes during the last two decades. On May 28, 2008, lawmakers in Nepal legally abolished the monarchy and declared the country a republic, ending 239 years of royal rule. A Maoist ideologue, and the newly appointed Finance Minister of Nepal, Dr. Baburam Bhattarai visited Boston and held a talk program at Harvard University on 14 October, 2008. In the talk program entitled ‘Penury to Prosperity’ Dr Bhattarai shared his vision and answered questions from the audience.
This program was produced by Eta and Eugene Shrestha.
Scheduled cablecast times on SCAT Channel 3:
Wednesday, November 19 at 11:00pm
Tuesday, November 25 at 6:00pm
