Tech corner 2.0 #3

Billerica’s hectic political season has finally come and gone. As the season began ramping up shortly after the turn of the new year and continued through to election night, BATV once again was an integral part of providing a voice for each candidate and a forum for political discourse. 
Each year, BATV offers every candidate a chance to record a candidate statement. The candidates are each offered the use of our teleprompter and are given up to fifteen minutes to provide the Billerica community their vision for the future. We then grouped all of them by category and release it as BATV Candidates Statements program. The candidates are also provided a digital copy of their statement with which they then have free use. It is always a great opportunity for the viewer to get to know a candidate as if one on one.

BATV also hosted not one, not two but three separate debates/candidate forums this year. Our Town Live, hosted by Sandra Giroux was the first of these. As a live program airing monthly, Our Town Live has been hosting candidate nights for a few years now. With a crew of high school and community volunteers along with BATV staff, Our Town Live’s “Our Town Decides” was a fun live production for yours truly to coordinate. The other two debates were the 2025 Select Board Candidates Forum which was produced by David Gagliardi and the The League of Women Voters Candidates Forum which was another live event we broadcasted from our Howe School community room in front of a large audience.
Lastly, Trek Reef hosted a Meeting Town Forum’s Live Election Night coverage. It was truly a learning experience for all of us as we had never tested the limits of our mini-studio’s TriCaster studio in a box. On the program, Trek had live election night reports coming in from multiple precincts. With the TriCaster’s revolutionary “Live Call Connect” Trek was able to have multiple zoom callers, each as their own camera input. It truly made the program special and we are happy to have finally put such a high quality to good use! 

Although BATV’s political season is over, we would welcome any and all members who would like to have zoom type contact with multiple guests and/or friends and make a great program too! That’s the beauty of BATV, where we give you the power for your imagination to soar. As always if you have any questions for me you can reach out at [email protected]. Thanks for joining me again in the Technical Corner!