FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Brookline Access Television Summer 2012 Operating Hours

Brookline, MA, 16 May. 2012 — Brookline Access Television will be instituting its summer operating hours, effective Monday, June 25 through August 31.

The summer operating hours will be Mondays and Tuesdays 12pm-10pm, Wednesdays and Thursdays 10am-6pm, and Fridays and Saturdays 10am-4pm.

More about BATV: Since our founding in 1984, BATV administers airtime on the Brookline public access channels and provides Brookline resident and non-resident members access to its facilities. In addition, BATV offers guidance on program development and technical training on field and studio equipment. Our facilities provide a regular forum for community members to educate and inform the community about issues and events of local, national, and global importance. BATV also accepts program proposals to cover on-location events of importance to the Brookline community.

For additional information, Contact:
Peter Zawadzki
Executive Director
46 Tappan St., Top Floor, Brookline, MA, 02445
peter@batv.org
617-731-8566

 From Boston.com, Posted by Jonathan Donaldson

For those that just think that Community TV stations are for shows like Bird's Eye Nature with someone named Ron, or High School Hoops Weekly, you're right.

But probably little known to the surrounding community--off the air within the studio space of Brookline's BATV community TV station--the wackiest and crustiest of D.I.Y. music shows are being held.

This Thursday (5/3), BATV will host New York's electro agit-instigators Black Dice on their way through town promoting their new record, Mr. Impossible. It's an all ages show with J.P's Guerilla Toss, Western Mass' Fat Worm of Error, and Boston's Death Shepherd.

I personally imagine a carpeted place filledup with oldsters and teens alike, tripping over ear-muff style headphones and clipboards left by the day crew. Though it's probably nothing like that.

Promoter extraordinaire, Dan Shea (he of Bodies of Water promotions, and rock band Needy Visions), tells me that Bodies of Water started booking shows two years ago at the station in conjunction with their Golden Sounds Music Series, the station's live music program.

"It just so happens that maximum rocker, and Tunnel of Love member Andy MacBain works at the station," says Shea. "And we've done quite a few shows for some well known bands at this point. Lower Dens, Future Islands, Arrington De Dionyso, Juiceboxxx, Aids Wolf, skimask, Needy Visions, Ponies In The Surf and many more."

Between Fat Worm of Error and Black Dice, the night promises to be one heck of a spectacle of weird and uneasy sounds. Perfect first date music for the pathological.

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