1994-06-09Cable Television Advisory Commission
City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Members:
From: Cable Television Advisory Commission
Dan Murphy - Chairman
A1 Torsey - Asst. Chairman
Arthur Crandall
John Hurley
Robert Tanzella
Thomas O'Connor
Susan Alvey
Amy Siemasko
Re: Meeting of June 9, 1994
Members of the Cable Television Advisory Commission met in the
conference room of the Beverly Public Library on June 9, 1994.
Members present:. Torsey, Tanzella, O'Connor, Murphy, Alvey,
Siemasko.
The following action was'taken:
· Three citizens - Joseph ScarceHa, 14 Bisson; Mario DiBernardi, 18
Browning; Nick Appoloni, 14 Russell St. - voiced concern that the
Teleltalia channel (broadcasting two hours per day) was canceled in
December 1993 with no notice. After several complaints to Conti-
nental Cablevision and the execution of a petition drive, the channel
was restored in April 1994. The citizens expressed disappointment
that they had to expend such effort and energy and hoped the
Commission would see to it that the Teleltalia channel remains.
Cornml ssi on members · xpressed support for their efforts and promised
to monitor the situation in the future.
· Citizen Chris Devereaux, 39 Thorndike St., spoke to the commis-
sion at length about what he saw as weaknesses in the Continental
Cablevision operation of the cable system in Beverly. These com-
ments ranged from customer service mistakes - especially with
regard to senior citizens - to poor coverage of City Counc~ meetings.
He raised the question as to whether the current commission had ever
been formally registered with the st_n_te.
· C~mmission members voted 6 - 0 to eleot the following offioers:
Daniel C. Murphy, chairman: A1 Torsey, istant chairman.
· Chairman Murphy will check on th~
structure of the commiS-
SiOn.
· Member Amy Siemasko will invehtory current television pmgram-
mlng aimed at children and education.
· Member Tom O'Connor has arranged a tour and orientation of
Continental Cablevision facih'ties for the evening of 1tlne 21,-1994.
DanMLu'phy