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Yesterday, the TWC PEG channel 3 aired the first Moultonboro Board of Selectmen meeting (from last Thursday August 6 2009) unedited and in it's entirety. The quality of the broadcast was less than desired and the fault lies with TWC. They were provided with an HD quality DVD and for some reason that we are still trying to ascertain it didn't broadcast at that expected high level. They are working on it.

The schedule going forward will be Tuesday mornings from 10am-12pm and Tuesday evening from 7pm-9pm.

Since there is no Selectmen meeting this week, the next new meeting scheduled to be broadcast will be Tuesday August 26, 2009.

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We anticipate that the first official airing of the Moultonboro Board of Selectmen's meetings will be on Tuesday August 11, 2009 on Time Warner on the PEG channel at 7pm. The paperwork has been filled out. All the tee's have been crossed and the i's dotted. We believe we have all the ducks in a row and all the glitches worked out. We should be all set to go!! We are very excited and want everyone to pass the word around! Tune in and watch!!

We would like to extend a big thank you to our Town Administrator and Time Warner Cable for helping to put this together!  

So what happened to channel 4? Mike explained that Moultonboro is in the Portland marketing area not Boston. As such, Channel 4 was considered "out of market" by TWC. This is purely based upon advertiser preference and decided at a higher level at TWC. He added that as an analog channel it took up a lot of bandwidth . This one channel can now free up space for many digital channels.

He was asked how many subscribers TWC had in Moultonboro and he did not have that information with him.

The Selectmen were asked how much money of the franchise fee has been expended in the build out to underserved areas of town. To date there is about $32,000 in the fund. (Note from the MCA: It is only since 2008 that this franchise fee was put into a separate fund. Prior to that it went into the general fund to offset taxes)

Sheridan Road was discussed at length. TWC franchise agreement requires them to offer service for areas where there is at least 15 houses per mile.  Sheridan Road has about 11 houses per mile. This was grandfathered from Adelphia. Typically TWC will look for 25-30 houses per mile; Cost to wire will range from $15K to $30K per mile. 

Mike will provide a letter to the BoS with details of what he discussed tonight as well as number of subscribers.