It was a milestone year at Lake Champlain
Access Television. On February 18, 2004, we cele-
brated our tenth anniversary on the air. Among
the changes to occur in those ten years: Regular
staff has gone from one fulltime and one part-time
to three fulltime members. We’ve grown from one
small room off of the Colchester High School li-
brary to our labyrinthine facilities on Prim Road. One channel a few
hours a day has become two channels, twenty-four-seven. Of course,
probably the most dramatic change in those ten years (or the last five
for that matter) has been the technology that we use to create televi-
sion. When I began working here in 1998, we had four camcorders:
two VHS and two S-VHS. We currently have ten camcorders of vary-
ing digital formats. Those old analog cameras aren’t manufactured
any longer.
Nowhere have these technological changes been more drastic
than in our meeting coverage over the last year. As recently as
March, we were still capturing and playing select and school board
meetings on S-VHS. The switch to digital was quick and complete,
though. Suddenly the meetings were being captured on a hard drive,
loaded into a PC-based nonlinear editing system and burned to DVD
for playback and archiving. Videotape only entered the picture as a
backup safeguard. This new process has lead to a marked increase in
the quality of meeting broadcast. Although not easy to master, Pro-
duction Coordinator Buddy Meilleur has done an outstanding job in
learning all the intricacies of this new system. Being among the .5%
of the population who reads the instruction manual for pleasure,
Buddy met the challenge head-on, and has become a valuable re-
source for a few other Vermont access centers trying similar systems.
In addition to mastering this new technology, Buddy was also busy
this year adding more awards to his mantle. For the second time, he
received the Alliance for Community Media Northeast Regional Video
Festival’s first place award for his work on LCATV Channel 16’s com-
munity bulletin board.
Buddy and I have long been the only two fulltime employees at
LCATV, but that changed this year with the creation of a third fulltime
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