CABLE ADVISORY
COMMISSION
Present were Chair Catherine Russo, John Hopkins, Lou Ann Bowen
And Tim McCarthy. Unexcused absence of Sue Hoffman
Also present were Mark La Tour, Gary Delius and Mary O’Keefe
Lou Ann made a motion to accept John Hopkins as Vice Chair.
It was seconded by Tim McCarthy. The vote was 3 in favor,
0 opposed and John abstained.
John accepted the position.
Catherine reported that there were 11 applications for the media center
Position and that she had reviewed them with Mark and made a selection of the top 4 to be interviewed.
An interview committee was set up, made up of Mark, Gary,
John and Catherine.
Commission members then turned their attention to an exchange with Mary O’Keefe,
Operations Manager at AT&T. Catherine began by stating a part of the license that
referred to the Provincetown channel and said that she had talked with Peter Epstein,
The lawyer that had represented the town in writing the license, and that his
intention and interpretation was that Provincetown had the right to its own channel.
Mary O’Keefe said that AT&T did not interpret it that way and that the town only
had access to program on the joint channel of all the towns of the lower Cape.
Catherine asked about the other channel stated in the license. Mary said that if
was up to the town to decide if Cape Cod Community College would program it or
if the town would program it. Catherine asked if it could be shared. Mary said no.
A heated exchange took place and nothing was resolved. She also said that we
could not have any special attention from James Paul Ludwig as far as training
or programming.
The next meeting was scheduled for Nov 6th at 7pm.
John moved to adjourn the meeting at 8:40. It was seconded y Tim.
The vote was 4 in favor and 0 opposed.