New Cable Series Begins This Weekend-'Today In…' To Debut On Charter With A Familiar Backdrop

By SHANNON HICKS

Published: May 23, 2001 12:00 am

New Cable Series Begins This Weekendâ

âToday Inâ¦â To Debut On Charter With A Familiar Backdrop

By Shannon Hicks

Charter Communications is celebrating its acquisition of a brand-new mobile video production truck by introducing a new series on the cable companyâs CommunityVision 21 channel. Today Inâ¦ will debut with a show filmed in â where else? â Newtown. It seems fitting to use the home town of the cable company for the first show of the series.

Wayne Winsley will serve as the host of each show, which rotate among each town of Charterâs 14-town region. Mr Winsley is the host and creator of the comedic and newsy The Wayne Winsley Program, which debuted on WSTC and WNLK before moving to WINE 940 AM and WPUT AM in April 1999. He is also a DJ for I-95 FM in Brookfield.

For each program, Mr Winsley will interview guests who offer a cross-section of the population of the town being featured. Co-producer Mark Ingram expects to produce a new program once or twice each month, with each program focusing on a different town. Mr Ingram, who is also serving as the director for Today Inâ¦, came up with the concept of the program.

A camera crew pulled on to the side lawn of C.H. Booth Library in Newtown on May 17 to film Today Inâ¦ Newtown. Between set-up, the taping of the interviews and then the break-down, the crew was on-site for nearly four hours Thursday afternoon. Mr Ingram is hoping to keep the show as close to live-to-tape (running the show on just one take, but not live) as possible.

Mr Winsley conducted his interviews outdoors. After a short introduction he moved on to the interviews, spending between ten and 15 minutes with each of his guests. Programs will feature interviews and mentions of upcoming events in the area. It is a non-commercial production.

Today Inâ¦ Newtown will include interviews with Addie Sandler, a counselor at Newtown Youth Services; Lions Club president Gordon Williams; and Newtown Bee arts editor Shannon Hicks. Col Martin Lifschultz (Ret.), a decorated World War II and Vietnam veteran, was also a special guest.

Today Inâ¦ Newtown will air Saturday, May 26, at 11 am and 3 and 8 pm; Sunday, May 27 at 10 am and 2 and 7 pm; and Monday, May 28, at 11 am and 4 and 9 pm. The program will air on Charter Communications channel 21.

The supervisor for the Today Inâ¦ series is Greg van Antwerp, the senior community access supervisor for Charter Communications. Chris Fatsy and Gina Gesiak, along with Mr Ingram, are the programâs co-producers.

The crew for Today Inâ¦ is made up of interns participating in the free Charter-sponsored internship program which teaches people how to produce shows for television. The crew last week included Yvonne Reelick, Ken Arnott and Alex Hunt running the cameras and Daniel Leniart serving as the floor manager.

Charter provides cable access to 14 different towns, including Newtown. The provider serves over 59,000 subscribers through ten satellite dishes located in New Milford. CommunityVision 21, the community access channel, allows the members of the public to express their First Amendment right. The Federal Communication Commission has ordered cable providers to supply one channel for community use.

Town leaders and other organizations can request that Charterâs mobile video production truck visit an event in their town and provide taping facilities to be aired on CommunityVision 21. For information contact the cable company by calling 304-4050.

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Appreciated the opportunity to hear from both candidates as we were present for the College Dems forum but only heard from Brandon Moore. It was an opportunity to see who can unseat the Republican incumbent and there is no doubt that Brandon Moore should be the Democratic candidate. One concerned parent posed a question about discrimination unaddressed by the school district and interestingly enough, Michelle Ku, who proudly speaks of her Board membership years, said little, while Brandon Moore passionately addressed the issue along with his experience as an Apache Helicopter Commander. This family is supporting Brandon Moore. We need change and someone who is not afraid to disagree, especially about the rising costs of living in Newtown.

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Where was our CodeRED? For over 4 years Newtown has a CodeRED system. The town tells residents it exists for emergencies and points to things like missing persons, wildfires, and criminal activity as the kinds of incidents it is meant to address. Yet we had no CodeRED for Kateri Doty, no CodeRED for the brush fires, and no CodeRED for yesterday’s manhunt with police and tracking dogs moving through our backyards. That is not one oversight. That is a pattern. Under sleepy Bruce Walczak, the town has an emergency notification system that never seems to get used when actual emergencies happen. Whether or not Bruce physically sends the alert himself is beside the point. If the system is not being used, if residents are left hearing about dangerous situations from Facebook and the neighbors’ kids instead of from their own government, then that failure belongs to him. Newtown residents should not have to guess when there is a public safety issue unfolding around them. If Bruce Walcz"zzz"ak cannot make sure an emergency alert system is used for emergencies, then what exactly is he doing?

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