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Saco River Community Television Annual Report - Town of Buxton

SRC-TV has been helping the citizens of Buxton access the powerful medium of television since the year 2000. Today’s 21 st Century communication technologies allow the Town of Buxton to reach a wider audience than ever before – on cable and online. Saco River Community Television is here to help the citizens of Buxton connect to local information on cable and on the internet. We’re proud of the role we play in facilitating the exchange of ideas and information throughout the villages. Today’s technologies are here to stay and a town as large as Buxton is wise to support a regional center devoted to the interests and concerns of the citizenry. Buxton is part of a six town service area that also includes Hollis, Limerick, Limington, Standish and Waterboro. The regional access center functions as the electronic hub or central location of our 6-town consortium. From this location, we offer television production studio access and video production training for citizens wishing to promote and publicize local events. We also monitor Buxton’s government access channel, schedule meetings on cable and upload and archive Buxton’s meetings onto our PEG TV (public, education & government) service located at www. src-tv.org. Cable remains our primary focus and the government access meetings can be seen at regularly scheduled times on Channel 5 and, now, Channel 121-2 for those watching the meetings on a newer television set. We work closely with the technology department at Bonny Eagle to ensure a wide variety of events taking place in the SAD 6 school system gain the exposure they deserve on local television. These events include, but are not limited to basketball and football games, graduation ceremonies, talent shows, interview programs and human interest stories and regularly scheduled school board meetings. Additionally, a wide array of local churches, libraries and non-profits throughout Buxton, including the South Buxton Cemetery Association, the Buxton-Hollis Historical Society, the Buxton Garden Club and the Saco River Theater are free to use our services to publicize and promote themselves on the cable airwaves and on the internet as well. We are always looking for new volunteers. Station tours and production training are available on request. Our mission is to encourage the people of Buxton to empower themselves with free production training and equipment loans so they can exercise their 1st Amendment right to free speech or simply to promote community fundraisers and other events taking place in Buxton. We’re proud of the work we do on behalf of the citizens of Buxton and look forward to another productive partnership with the Town of Buxton in 2015-16.

Respectfully submitted,

Patrick Bonsant Director, Saco River Community Television

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