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BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 5/2/16

Monday, May 2, 2016

12:00 am DCC: Bob Engel- Biological Communities #4- 3/14/16

1:55 am 1st Wednesdays: David McCollough Jr – “You are Not Special”

3:00 am The Road to Recovery: Generational Issues

4:00 am Brattleboro Music Center – 2016 Faculty Showcase

5:30 am At Landmark: Dr. Brian Young, ‘The Boreal Forest’ 3/28/16

This Wednesday (May 4th, 2016), Fireworks Restaurant (73 Main Street, Brattleboro) will hold a Community Night with WVEW as the beneficiary! All profits relalized between 4pm and 9pm will go to the station. This includes all appetizers, food, drinks, and desserts. A few of WVEW’s volunteer DJs are sure to be wandering around. We hope you’ll come out and support not just a local business, but Brattleboro’s all volunteer non-profit Community Radio station, broadcasting at 107.7fm and webstreamed at wvew.org. Thank You Fireworks!

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 4/25/16

Monday, April 25, 2016

12:00 am DCC: Kenneth Cox – Fish of Dummerston 4/5/16

1:40 am The Refugee Crisis: Learn How You Can Help

3:00 am Cooking with Zandria: A Chef’s Outlook on Homecooking

4:00 am That Was the Week that Was: Actor / Educator Susan Haefner

4:45 am Interview hour with Pamela Ryder

The Reformer reports that it is being sold:

“Digital First Media will complete the sale of New England Newspapers Inc., which includes the Brattleboro Reformer, to Birdland Acquisition LLC on May 2. Included in the deal are the Bennington Banner, Manchester Journal and The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, Mass.

The principals in the new company include three Stockbridge, Mass., residents: John C. “Hans” Morris, former president of Visa Inc.; Fredric D. Rutberg, former Pittsfield (Mass.) District Court judge; and Robert G. Wilmers, chairman and CEO of M&T Bank. The fourth principal is Stanford Lipsey, publisher emeritus of The Buffalo News and former owner, publisher and Pulitzer Prize winner for The Sun Newspaper Group in Nebraska.”

BCTV channel 8 for the week of 4/18/16  

Monday, April 18, 2016

12:00 am At Landmark: The Yes Men, ‘Making Meaningful Mischief’ 3/28/16

1:30 am Co-op: Food Justice Forum 3/20/16

3:30 am Spotlight on Vermont Issues: Human Trafficking

5:30 am Indigenous People’s History and the Roots of America’s Endless Wars

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 4/11/16

Monday, April 11, 2016

12:35 am BTT: 2016 Spring Forward Extravaganza

3:00 am Chasing the Dragon

3:55 am Engineering on the Inside: Innovations in Implants

5:00 am Spotlight on Vermont Issues: Human Trafficking

7:00 am Open Studio: Can Cops Cook?

VT Earth Works, Inc, the 501(c)(3) non-profit which manages WVEW-lp, Brattleboro’s Community Radio Station, invites all levels of its membership, as well as interested members of the public, to WVEW’s Bi-annual Meeting (and Potluck!), to be held on Wednesday April 13th, 2016, starting at 6pm.

There will be a vote to confirm an appointment to the Board, and a vote for new Board Members. Please be aware that in order to vote you must be a currently paid-up Full Member (now $75.00/year). The meeting will include a discussion of the station’s no-tolerance policy on profanity, and whether or not to allow adult language in adult hours as permitted by the FCC’s ‘safe harbor’ regulations. (That policy allows profanity – but not obscenity – between the hours of 10pm and 6am.)

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 4/4/16

Monday, April 4, 2016

12:00 am Wind vs Water in the Grafton Woodlands

1:35 am Movement to Save Our Democracy 3/16/16

2:00 am SEON: Regional Roundtable – Zero Energy Now Program 2/23/16

3:05 am Quiet Rebel – The Lynn Martin Story

4:30 am The Cuban Bridge: Ep 52 – Rowan

At long last.

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 3/28/16

Monday, March 28, 2016

12:05 am Common Good VT: What’s Going On with Non-Profit Workplaces

12:30 am Regional Heroin Crisis Forum 3/8/16

2:00 am Medical Marijuana in VT – Dr. Nitya Jessica Eisenheim 2/29/16

3:15 am Senior Moments: Montpelier Senior Center Band

4:00 am A Way with Words: Conversations on the Art of Writing

is pleased to announce the only photo contest of its kind in America.

Beginning May 1 thru June 30th, 2016, The Reluctant Activist will be accepting (JPEG/JPG only) untouched amateur Chemtrail photos.

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 3/21/16

Monday, March 21, 2016

12:00 am 1st Wednesdays: The Pulitzer Gold

1:30 am Hunger Mtn Coop Workshop Series – Creative Ideas

3:30 am From VT to VZ: Building a Global Movement for Social and Environmental Justice

5:00 am Northern Roots 2016

7:00 am Open Studio: Louis Josephson – CEO, Brattleboro Retreat

Join members of Brattleboro’s Representative Town Meeting body for a day of deliberations over passage of the Town and School District budgets.

The meeting starts at 8:30 AM but we’ll have the stream up at 8:00 AM so you can check it out ahead of time. At any point if your stream gets behind (this can happen if you pause the feed, or if it needs to buffer) just click the ‘Live’ button in the bottom left and it will skip you ahead.

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Get all the details on Brattleboro’s twice-recounted Selectboard Race, decision to move the Police Station to Black Mtn Rd, structural problems at the Parking Garage, construction on the Green St Ext, water poisoning in Bennington, the Retreat’s new CEO, and more!

Get the story front to back in this two minute special that covers election night through the second recount, in the epic case of the one vote select board race that initially gave Avery Schwenk a one vote win over DeGray only to finally give DeGray the final victory, again by only a one vote margin.

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 3/14/16

Monday, March 14, 2016

12:00 am DCC: Bob Engel- Biological Communities #2- 2/29/16

1:45 am Vets: Introduction to Veterans’ Benefits 2/18/16

2:30 am The Opiate Effect – Film and Discussion

4:30 am From VT to VZ: Building a Global Movement for Social and Environmental Justice

Watch the debate over whether or not to relocate Brattleboro’s Police Dept to Black Mtg Rd with this live feed from today’s Special Rep Town Mtg. .

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 3/7/16

Monday, March 7, 2016

12:00 am WWAC: Paul Morgan – Paris Climate Agreement 2/19/16

1:30 am Hunger Mtn Coop Workshop Series – Creative Ideas

3:10 am TED Talks: Shonda Rhimes: My Year of Saying Yes to Everything

3:30 am 13th Annual A Cappella Concert 2/6/16

5:45 am The Opiate Effect – Film and Discussion

Check out lots of footage of the Newfane Creamery fire, the latest details in Brattleboro’s one-vote select board race, info on next week’s big Police-Fire Special Rep Meeting in Brattleboro, and all the 2016 Town Meeting Day happenings from across the region as 5:45 Live sums up more than 30 hours of Town Meeting coverage with their annual one minute special.

Preliminary results in Brattleboro show Avery Schwenk winning the second available one-year selectboard seat over Dick DeGray by just one vote. One vote! Check out all the results from Annette Cappy with 5:45 Live’s special, including presidential primary results and more.

Bernie wins big, Trump wins by 23 votes, and Avery Schwenk tops Dick DeGray by one vote. Just one Vote! Catch all the preliminary results from Brattleboro Town Clerk Annette Cappy as the tally the votes from a record turnout year, with nearly 45% of Brattleboro residents voting. But with just a single vote determining the second one year selectboard seat.