by Miriam Rosenberg, Independent Producer
My name is Miriam Rosenberg and I am an independent producer, and the writer and host of Sing-a-Long with Miss Miriam which I produce in cooperation with the staff at HTTV in Summit. I have been producing and airing a children’s show with HTTV for about 5 years now. I currently have 19 episodes on the JAG TelVue server, and 52 stations have picked up the shows.
The themes include: Caring for our Planet, Planets, Courage, Spring, Magic, Puppetry, Science, Positivity, Kindness, Sports, Living Your Dreams, Trying New Things, Teamwork, Learning Popular Songs with Acting a Part, Diversity, Therapy Horses, and a Mr. Rogers tribute. Each show has a unique theme, a featured craft, an interesting guest, an original song and story time. It’s aimed at children from three to eight years old.
Posted: December 15, 2021 by Doug Seidel
Spotlight Miriam – Producing a Show During Covid
by Miriam Rosenberg, Independent Producer
My name is Miriam Rosenberg and I am an independent producer, and the writer and host of Sing-a-Long with Miss Miriam which I produce in cooperation with the staff at HTTV in Summit. I have been producing and airing a children’s show with HTTV for about 5 years now. I currently have 19 episodes on the JAG TelVue server, and 52 stations have picked up the shows.
The themes include: Caring for our Planet, Planets, Courage, Spring, Magic, Puppetry, Science, Positivity, Kindness, Sports, Living Your Dreams, Trying New Things, Teamwork, Learning Popular Songs with Acting a Part, Diversity, Therapy Horses, and a Mr. Rogers tribute. Each show has a unique theme, a featured craft, an interesting guest, an original song and story time. It’s aimed at children from three to eight years old.
Posted: December 15, 2021 by Doug Seidel
The Art of the Interview
by Dustin Dumas, Station Manager, SOMAtv, South Orange/Maplewood, NJ
Arguably, one of the most important responsibilities of an independent producer is getting a great interview. It may mean that, you, as the producer are wearing several hats…perhaps being the interviewer yourself or assisting the interviewer in creating a great interview. Either way, there is definitely an art to getting the most from the interviewee. I have touched on interviewing techniques in a previous column but due to its importance I would like to focus on it in this column.
Posted: December 15, 2021 by Doug Seidel
JAG Shines at NJ League of Municipalities
by Bob Duthaler, Jersey Access Group, President
Once again, the Jersey Access Group had the opportunity to participate at the New Jersey League of Municipalities Conference in Atlantic City. JAG was on hand on the trade show floor with our booth, speaking to Mayors, Council Members and Administrators about our organization. Our purpose was to inform municipalities of the importance of effectively communicating with their citizens. Who better to let municipalities know how to do this then JAG members?… this is what we do!
I am sure that most of you (if not all) know that the Jersey Access Group is an affiliate member of the NJLM. So, what does that mean? What is the purpose? It means that the League turns to us for leadership and information on telecommunication issues. It looks to JAG to provide guidance through our resource as a member of NATOA for national legislation issues and more. The NJLM also looks to JAG to participate at their annual conference, not only on the trade show floor but in conference sessions as well. JAG held two conference sessions at this year’s League Conference. Our first session was a joint session with the League of Municipalities in which I was lucky enough to be a panelist, along with a group of distinguished experts well versed on this topic. I urge you to read Ken Fellman’s article in this very newsletter.
Posted: December 15, 2021 by Doug Seidel
NJLM Broadband Session Report
by Ken Fellman, Of Counsel, Helmer, Conley & Kasselman, PA
As an affiliate of the New Jersey League of Municipalities, JAG annually provides a session at the League’s annual conference on communications related issues. JAG has had a history with the League of identifying and educating on relevant communications topics to New Jersey’s local governments. In past years JAG sessions have addressed cable regulation, social media and wireless facilities deployment. This year, on November 17th we gathered in Atlantic City to discuss one of the most pressing issues to New Jersey municipalities – new funding for broadband networks.
At the start of the session, we had a video welcome and an introduction of the importance of broadband deployment to all New Jersey communities from Congressman Josh Gottheimer. Joining me on our panel was Christopher Mitchell from the Institute for Local Self Reliance and Robert Boyle, CEO of Planet Networks. Robert spoke about the work his company is doing to connect New Jersey communities to 21st century broadband, while Chris and I addressed the new programs coming from Washington, D.C. to promote broadband deployment and usage in hard to serve areas, and the once in a generation opportunity this provides New Jersey communities to take control of their broadband futures.
Posted: December 15, 2021 by Doug Seidel
Social Media Stats – December 2021
by Doug Seidel, Social Media Manager, External Relations Committee
As we get into the holiday season social media traffic seems to go down. Part of this is most likely due to people using their online time to shop instead of socializing. I tend to see a lot of people take a break from social media during the end of the year too. Always a good thing to keep in mind when planning out your social media strategy — don’t count on the social media boost around the holidays.
In other JAG news, a quick reminder to check out the website. There are two new videos on the website for all to see (they are also featured on our YouTube page) concerning broadband and over the top delivery for your content. These videos are not just in our members only section because they can help you sell the need for better broadband and over the top delivery to your town. Share these videos with anyone that could benefit from them.
Posted: December 8, 2021 by Doug Seidel
Broadband Panel
JAG president Bob Duthaler and Piscataway Community TV Station Manager George Fairfield discuss ways municipalities can continue to reach their citizens after the pandemic. Now that local governments have given the public access to their council meetings and other municipal events in their homes, can they go back to business as usual? Today, reaching your community through a traditional cable channel is not the only game in town. Our panelists will explore all the new ways to engage citizens with over the top (OTT) devices and applications: like: Roku, AppleTV, web applications and mobile devices.
Posted: November 26, 2021 by Doug Seidel
OTT Panel
JAG president Bob Duthaler and Piscataway Community TV Station Manager George Fairfield discuss ways municipalities can continue to reach their citizens after the pandemic. Now that local governments have given the public access to their council meetings and other municipal events in their homes, can they go back to business as usual? Today, reaching your community through a traditional cable channel is not the only game in town. Our panelists will explore all the new ways to engage citizens with over the top (OTT) devices and applications: like: Roku, AppleTV, web applications and mobile devices.
Posted: November 12, 2021 by Doug Seidel
Closed Captioning: Lots of Options
by Daniell Krawczyk, Owner, Municipal Captioning
Buy a new car in 2022 and the engine is going to be reliable enough no matter what you buy, but in the early days of automobiles the reliability and quality of the prebuilt engines which “coach manufacturers” built their autos upon varied greatly, and you needed to be aware of which vehicles had a top-tier engine and which had a bottom-tier engine.