New life awaits public access programming
After two years in dark, Schenectady council to air shows on cable, InternetBy Lauren Stanforth
Updated 10:07 pm, Monday, March 4, 2013
SCHENECTADY — The Schenectady Access Cable Council is making a comeback.
Two years after it was driven into obscurity when Proctors Theatre was picked to produce public access television, the nonprofit council has set up an editing room and studio in rented space across from City Hall. It plans to produce shows that will be carried by Proctors on the county's three public access channels, and it is also aiming to gain a following on the Internet, said Randall Hogue, the cable council's new executive director.
In 2010, then-City Council President Gary McCarthy led the cable council's board and convinced the City Council to allocate $80,000 in Time Warner Cable franchise fees to Proctors, which created a television production arm called Open Stage Media. McCarthy, who would move into the mayor's seat the next year, said the cable council was losing money and Proctors could make higher-quality programming................................>>>>.......................>>>>.......................Read more:
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McCheese is an expert on job creation and mediocrity. ROTFLMAO!! Let's cut the crap. McCheese stabbed the old SACC in the back to give our $80,000 cable fees to Fat Morris so the lights can stay on at 
