Tewksbury Telemedia is required to pull down political content until after the election, but you can listen here
In Massachusetts, a law known as the Equal Time Rule requires municipal Telemedia departments to remove political content from their programming leading up to elections. The law aims to prevent any one political candidate from receiving an unfair advantage through free exposure on public access television.
If you missed the Board of Health and Select Board Candidate Forums, you can podcast them here. Jump in to 1:16:00 to hear from the Select Board.
We unfortunately don’t have audio for the School Committee forum. Someone forgot to set the DVR 🙄
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Government regulation rules and FCC license ought not applly to local cable community cable licensing. The FCC regulation reported on here is a politician’s license to kill local broadcasting of election debates and political free speach. The First Amendment to the US Constitution is being violated, in my view. The cable fee that a Tewwksbury cable subscriber pays in their monthly bill and the remittance of a local franchise fee to the Town ought to negate and rule against any rules put in place by our state legislators. Home rule petitions ought to be placed and carried and filed as a Bill to the State House.
Thomas, We have the video files now and will post them. Don’t disagree though! All candidates had the opportunity to participate.