BMC News

Happy New Year! Belmont Journal is Belmont Media Center's new, weekly hyper-local news program. If you haven't tuned in yet, be sure to take the time to watch and learn everything you need to know about all the important happenings in town in less than 30 minutes. The Jan. 5th show, hosted by Belmont resident Michael Crowley, includes reports from Franklin Tucker of "The Belmontonian," about commercial developments coming before the Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals and all the latest high school sports news.

Board of Selectmen Chairman Jim Williams reflects on the major happenings in Belmont in 2017 including the approval of a community path route, reduciton of the OPEB liability, hiring a new town administrator, changing the liquor license regulations, and going out to bid for an automated trash contract. Tune in Thursday, 8 p.m., Friday, 6:30 p.m., Saturday, 1:30 p.m.or Wednesday, 4:30 p.m. on Channel 9 (Comcast) or 29 (Verizon) or online at belmontmedia.org.

Get all they hyper-local news you need to know about Belmont in just 30 minutes. Tune in to "Belmont Journal," Belmont Media Center's weekly news program. Here's what's covered in the Dec. 15th show with host Roger Colton:

Catch the December 8th episode of Belmont Journal, BMC's weekly hyper-local news program.
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Volunteer CAMERA OPERATORS are needed for this year’s Youth Spelling Bee, a major fundraising event for the Foundation for Belmont Education. This will be a live multi-camera production with the remote switcher. The Spelling Bee will take place at 2:00 PM on Saturday, November 4^th at the Chenery Middle School Auditorium. Since this tends to be a long event, there will be two volunteer shifts. The first shift will take place from 1:30 – 5:30pm. The second shift will take place from 5:30 – 9:30pm (or after we finish breaking down equipment).

You are invited to attend BMC’s Annual Membership Meeting and Dinner. We’ll be presenting a year in review, elections for board of director seats and awards for Producer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year. We’ll also be honoring our past board members who have recently completed their terms. Our guest speaker will be Science for the Public board member Daniel Czizo, who will be talking about community media and science literacy.

On Saturday, September 23rd from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM, Belmont Media Center will be cablecasting live the Give Hope Telethon for Hurricane Relief, presented by PACTV in Plymouth, MA.

The telethon will air on all three BMC channels: 8, 9 & 96 (Comcast) and 28, 29 & 30 (Verizon)

Please, tune in this weekend and consider making a donation. To donate, visit: www.pactv.org.

Deniz Dutton joined BMC as a Studio and Field intern for the summer of 2017. Entering the 11th grade, she took full advantage of all that BMC had to offer in order to drastically improve her video production skills, and was a phenominal addition to the BMC team. Here is her take on her expeirence as a BMC intern: 

Would you like to see the Great Total Solar Eclipse as it happens?  Tune in to channel 96 (Comcast) and channel 30 (Verizon) on Monday, August 21st from1:30pm to 3:00pm for LIVE coverage of the total eclipse from Middle Tennessee State University and the Center for Educational Media, in Murfreesboro. You can also watch it on our website Here.  Brought to you by the Belmont Media Center.

Last Friday the Belmont Media Center lost one of our own. Longtime volunteer, teacher, mentor, valued staff member, and friend to all, EJ Johnson passed away after fighting a pretty darned good fight for several years against a disease that increasingly crippled his body but that could not subdue his spirit or dedication to community media in any visible way.

There will be a memorial service for EJ on Wednesday, August 9^th at 10:30 am at the Belmont United Methodist Church, 421 Common Street in Belmont.