Media

Fake news isn’t the ailment. It’s the symptom.

The problem is education. We’ve tolerated a slow slide in the quality of education over the last few decades, leaving many of our fellow citizens without the basic skills required to participate in or understand the world around them, making them vulnerable to manipulation and misdirection.

Combine that with a dizzying array of media choices and some intentional confusion injected into the system and you have a recipe for poor decision making at multiple levels. At the very least, it leaves a substantial portion of the population at the whim of whatever rumors float their way.

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 11/28/16

Monday, November 28, 2016

12:00 am How Professionals Think: Circus Smirkus’ Rob Mermin 

1:50 am Norwich Bookstore: Archer Mayor 10/19/16 

2:40 am VTRANS Bd Public Forum on Passenger & Freight Trains 11/19/16 

4:30 am Vote for VT: Visiting Nurses Association 

WKVT Radio will present a live broadcast of a public forum on the topic of Internet Safety from 11:00am to 1:00pm on Thursday, December 1 in the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Brattleboro Municipal Center. 

Panelists will include Karen Bates, Information Specialist for the Vermont Department of Public Safety, Detective Erik Johnson of the Brattleboro Police Department and officials from area banks and schools. 

Members of the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions or share information during the broadcast, which will be moderated by WKVT hosts Peter “Fish” Case and Chris Lenois.  

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 11/21/16

Monday, November 21, 2016

12:05 am How Professionals Think: Circus Smirkus’ Rob Mermin

1:50 am Norwich Bookstore: Archer Mayor 10/19/16

2:40 am VTRANS Bd Public Forum on Passenger & Freight Trains 11/19/16

4:30 am Vote for VT: Visiting Nurses Association

The Fall 2016 issue of the Oberlin alumni magazine has a feature that begins by talking about former students meeting in Brattleboro to discuss their craft. What is their craft? Circus arts!

Terry Crane, Erica Rubenstein, and Sam Payne are all mentioned in conjunction with contempoprary circus performing at the New England Center for Circus Arts. Payne lives in the area, and the others toured through with their circus arts show.

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 11/14/16

Monday, November 14, 2016

12:30 am Express Fluency: French with Sabrina Janczak Part 1 of 4

2:50 am Lit Fest 2016: Gandhi, Hegedus, Turk

4:00 am Springfield Steampunk Festival: Building Fictional Worlds

5:00 am GMMT: Friday News Show

5:25 am Open Studio: 2016 Project Feed the Thousands

BCTV schedule for the week of 11/7/16

Monday, November 7, 2016

12:00 am 1st Wed: The Science of Happiness

1:35 am Starship Academy: Ep 2 – Show us what you got!

2:00 am Lit Fest 2016: Bolick, Gordon

3:00 am Valley Homegrown: Wildcat O’Halloran

4:00 am Be Aware Be Prepared – Cold vs Flu

According to an email sent out today from Pittsfield, MA, the Reformer is getting ready to debut a newly designed local newspaper:

“We’ve been working for months on a new design for The Reformer, which includes a wider page, larger text, bigger ads, sharper pictures, heavier paper, better-organized content and much more! All this — along with a new website — starts on Tuesday, November 1.”

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 10/31/16

Monday, October 31, 2016

12:00 am Prevent Child Abuse VT – 40th Anniversary Pt1

2:00 am BAPC: Conversation on Drug Abuse & Law Enforcement 10/11/16

3:30 am VINS – Neotropical Migrant Birds

5:00 am GMMT: Friday News Show

5:20 am Stuck in Vermont: Queen City Ghostwalk

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 10/24/16

Monday, October 24, 2016

12:15 am Sothern Vermont Idol: Week 3

2:30 am Kellogg Hubbard Library: Dan Kittredge – The Solution is in the Soil

4:25 am 20-20 – Insights into Vision Loss

5:00 am GMMT: Friday News Show

5:30 am VINS – Neotropical Migrant Birds

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 10/17/16

Monday, October 17, 2016

12:00 am Express Fluency: Latin with Justin Bailey Part 1 of 3

2:15 am TED Talks: Adam Savage – My Love Letter to Cosplay

2:30 am EA Homestead: The Many Meanings of Maple

3:55 am America’s Constitution – Progress & Promise

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 10/10/16

Monday, October 10, 2016

12:00 am Moby Dick Series – Pt2

1:00 am War on Terror Retrospective: Vice Admiral Costello

2:05 am Woodstock Digital Media Fest: E-Team

2:42 am Express Fluency: Latin with Justin Bailey Part 1 of 3

5:00 am GMMT: Friday News Show

5:15 am Senior Moments: Alzheimer’s Disease Pt 2

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 10/3/16

Monday, October 3, 2016

12:00 am Brattleboro Stands in Solidarity with Standing Rock – Rally 9/13/16

1:00 am 11th Annual Rock, Rattle & Drum Pow Wow

2:44 am 11th Annual Rock, Rattle & Drum Pow Wow pt2

5:00 am GMMT: Friday News Show

5:25 am Everything Enigma

Join WKVT’s Chris Lenois (@WKVT1490AM) and the Reformer’s Chris Mays (@CMaysBR) as they break down last week’s drama at the Selectboard meeting over the nuances of funding pedestrian safety upgrades for some of the towns most dangerous intersections. And be sure to .

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 9/26/16

Monday, September 26, 2016

12:00 am Racism and the Culture of Policing

2:00 am 11th Annual Rock, Rattle & Drum Pow Wow pt2

4:20 am FIRE – The Lebanon NH Fire of 1964

5:00 am GMMT: Friday News Show

5:30 am 2016 ACM National Conference: John Nichols’ Keynote Address

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 9/19/16

Monday, September 19, 2016

12:00 am Rock Voices – 7/29/16 Concert

1:25 am UVM: John Abele Inaugural Stetson Lecture 8/23/16

2:30 am Wolf Peaches / Poisoned Peas & Madame Pompadour’s Underwear

3:45 am Senior Moments: Alzheimer’s Disease Pt 1

5:00 am GMMT: Friday News Show

WKVT Radio will present a live broadcast of a public forum about hunger and homelessness in the community from 11:00am to 1:00pm on Thursday, September 15 in the Selectboard Meeting Room at the Brattleboro Municipal Center. 

The station’s “Call to Action” series brings local and state officials together with individuals and organizations to create awareness around a critical issues and foster greater collaboration in addressing community needs. Light refreshments will be available. Participants and audience members will have a chance to continue discussion on the topic following the broadcast.  

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 9/12/16 

Monday, September 12, 2016

12:00 am 19th Annual Mozart Festival in Woodstock VT

1:30 am Days Gone By: Historical Society of Windham County 8/19/16

2:42 am Authors at the Aldrich: John and Jennifer Sherman

3:30 am Vets: 2016 Memorial Day in Vernon

4:10 am Asst. Fire Chief Pete Lynch Farewell Open House – 8/26/16

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With the town of Brattleboro days from completing an overhaul of their IT network’s cyber protections, hackers managed to infiltrate the Brattleboro Fire Dept system and encrypt a collection of files, demanding over $4,000 in bitcoin as ransom to decode the files. Join Bratt Town Manager Peter Elwell as he details the hack and reports on the town’s decision not to pay the ransom, but rather to recreate the lost files while also finishing the security upgrades needed to better protect town data.

BCTV channel 8 schedule for the week of 9/5/16

Monday, September 5, 2016

12:00 am The Dual Deception: 9/11 and the War on Terror

3:25 am Opera North: A Musical Celebration of National Parks

5:00 am GMMT: Friday News Show

5:30 am Authors at the Aldrich: John and Jennifer Sherman