June 17, 2009: Please join us for an evening of Indian Culture. See Sunanda Sahay’s work on display at LexMedia and talk to her about her work as a Madhubani Artist. Enjoy some Indian style cooking generously donated by Guru The Caterer.
DATE
Monday June 22, 2009
TIME
7 p.m.
PLACE
LexMedia 1001 Main Campus Drive Lexington, MA 02421 (directions)
May 23, 2009: We would like to hear your opinions about Public Access Television in Lexington. What programs do you watch? What programs would you like to see broadcast on LexMedia?
Click here to take our survey and help improve Lexington Public Access TV.
LexMedia will be at Discovery Day and there will be printed copies of the survey for you to fill out if you do not want to enter your responses from the web.
May 12, 2009: Last Saturday night, students in the Lexington High School Drama Department put on a one-of-a-kind Musical that was a collaboration between Amanda Palmer, LHS Grad and Stephen Bogart, LHS Drama Coach. This performance was carried by LexMedia and USTREAM live over the Internet.
LexMedia will be broadcasting the Musical on our standard cable channels. In addition, you can now view the performance on LexMedia OnDemand. Although the television broadcast is superior in video quality, you can experience the same performance now (viewing a reduced size video image) by going to:
Lexington received praise from a viewer in Lexington — but not Lexington, MA. Zabet Stewart from Lexington, KY sent the following unsolicited message after the show was broadcast live on Saturday night:
Subject: With the Needle That Sings In Her Heart
From: Zabet Stewart
Date: Sat, May 09, 2009 10:03 pm
To: admin@lexmedia.org
Hi there, I just wanted to say thank you so much
for webcasting the LHS production With the Needle
That Sings In Her Heart. I think it's great
that you guys supported the students in this way,
it really sends the message that art is important
and that making art is a worthwhile undertaking.
I'm sure Amanda Palmer's involvement was the
catalyst for this, and as a fan of hers I
appreciate the opportunity to follow her projects
event though I live in Lexington, Kentucky, but
I hope that Lexmedia will keep collaborating
with the LHS drama department even when there's
not a famous face around.
Thanks for making this evening of theater possible,
it was much enjoyed.
.:Zabet Stewart
http://theanticraft.com
Although unsolicited comments are the best (Thanks, Zabet!), the proof is in the numbers — and this performance received its share. 4960 unique viewers tuned into part of the performance with an average of 894 viewing at any one time. Not bad for LexMedia’s first live streaming event.
May 5, 2009: This Saturday night, LexMedia will stream live on the Internet the Lexington High School Spring Musical With the Needle That Sings in Her Heart. The musical, a collaboration between Amanda Palmer, LHS Drama coach Stephen Bogart and 20 LHS theater students is about Jewish diarist and Holocaust casualty Anne Frank. Amanda Palmer, a 1994 LHS Graduate, is one-half of The Dresden Dolls, and has had a musical career that has netted her four albums, multiple awards and growing popularity.
To see this performance click on the link below. The performance starts at 7:30pm and the streaming broadcast will start 15 minutes earlier at 7:15pm.
This live broadcast on the Internet (it will be broadcast by LexMedia on Lexington Cable Systems at later dates) is a first for LexMedia showing off a new capability we will be incorporating into our content distribution methods for all of our programming sometime this summer. Please see the article LexMedia Streaming Live on the Internet to find out about how this came about.
click to see clip from The Phoenix
Additional articles on the Web about With the Needle that Sings in Her Heart:
May 5, 2009: As we started planning on how to record Amanda Palmer’s collaboration with Lexington High School students on the Spring Musical, Chrissy Barthelette our hip, new young staff member said, “Why not stream Saturday night’s performance over the Internet?” Fred Rothmel chimed in that he had discovered the wonders of USTREAM, a free content streaming site on the web, and I (Harry Forsdick), playing my curmudgeonly role, threw cold water on the idea saying “Who needs this?”.
Boy, was I wrong! Boy was Chrissy right. And boy, is Fred my hero.
Within 12 hours of that meeting, we had most of the pieces for the live streaming on the Internet of Saturday night’s 7:30pm performance of “With the Needle That Sings in Her Heart” in place.
Just as important is the fact that this has shown us how to stream all of our three channels all of the time over the Internet: LexMedia live 24×7 on the Internet. Wow, this is something we have dreamed of for several years and the capabilities were sitting available for free to us.
So, stay tuned for the inauguration this summer of LexMedia Live on the Internet. This increases the ways our content is distributed to Lexington (and the World):
Cable presence on RCN, Comcast and Verizon
OnDemand presence on the Internet
and now
Live streaming of all three LexMedia Channels over the Internet
Who says a small, modestly funded Local Access Cable Corporation can’t be on the leading edge of communications technology.
May 21, 2009: This year LexMedia will not only be taping the 2009 LHS graduation ceremony, but also Minuteman Career and Technical High School graduations as well as the Clarke middle school graduations. A keepsake DVD of each of the graduation ceremonies can be purchased through LexMedia. The DVDs will feature all students receiving their diplomas and will also include all of the commencement speakers.
Please click one of the schools below to see an ordering form for these wonderful keepsake DVDs.
November 6, 2008: On Thursday, November 13, we are commencing our new Training Program. This program is described in our newly issued Training Brochure:
click to read
To sign up for the first class in this series, Introduction to LexMedia, please call Florence DelSanto at (781) 862–5388 to register.
March 19, 2009: Are you confused about the transition to Digital TV that will happen on June 12, 2009? Perhaps you feel like Mae Laborde in the following interview about her Public Service Announcement.
Click to see video
Well, if you feel like May, then you should click on the links below and read Ken Pogran’s excellent three part series that appears in the Lexington Minuteman entitled How the digital TV switch will effect you.
Ken, a member of the Lexington Town Communications Advisory Committee, an MIT grad and veteran of the Boston technology scene explains the concepts behind Digital TV, what you have to do to make the transition, and what the Town’s three cable TV providers are doing with respect to digital television in Lexington. The articles are quite readable and will answer your remaining questions about the conversion of TV to digital transmission.
November 8, 2008: LexMedia has responded to our viewers wishes and is now producing and showing a full array of schools sports, including LHS Football, LHS Boys Soccer, LHS Girls Soccer, and LHS Girls Softball and Hayden Synchronized Skating.
LHS Football vs Winchester
We plan on continuing our coverage in the Winter with LHS Boys and Girls Basketball, Hockey and Swimming and in the Spring with LHS Baseball, Softball, Lacrosse and Track and Field. In addition to all of this, we will continue with Jim Baker’s LexSports:
LexSports with Jim Baker
For the 2008 LHS Football season, LexMedia has/will cover all five home games:
9/20/2008: Concord/Carlisle
10/19/2008 Stonham
10/28/2008 Melrose
11/1/2008 Winchester
11/22/2008 (Thanksgiving Day) Burlington
In addition to LHS Football, we have already broadcast several other games including:
The Purpose of LexMedia is to develop, establish and maintain a Media Center to facilitate learning and to meet the needs of the Lexington community by offering media education and community programming.
LexMedia is a non profit organization which runs three channels in Lexington Massachusetts. Our Channels can be found on Comcast, RCN and Verizon. We serve the Lexington Community. We offer members of LexMedia training for use of TV Production equipment. If you would like to learn more about the services we offer, please feel free to contact us by phone or email. Contact information is listed below.
