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FRONT PAGE!
Medford Daily Mercury March 9, 2011
FRONT PAGE Thursday March 10
Winchester Daily Times & Chronicle with color photos
of Rex Trailer plus Rex, Joe Viglione and Mike Bavaro
Debuts:
WINCHESTER
Friday Night - 8 PM
http://wincam.org
Channel 8 Comcast Channel 36 Verizon
Wednesday, March 16 9 PM
On Comcast in Winchester, Verizon in other cities and towns.
MALDEN Thursday 3 PM March 17, 24 and 31
Comcast 3, Verizon 28 - Public Access
http://www.matv.org/public_access/Stoneham
Saturday March 19, 2011 8:30 PM
Monday March 21, 2011 11 AM
Comcast Channel 9, RCN Channel 3, Verizon Ch. 34
BURLINGTON
Comcast 9, RCN 3 and Verizon 39 in Burlington
starting next Wednesday night at 10PM March 23, March 30 and April 6th in Burlington
http://www.bcattv.org/
Coming to:
Arlington (airing next week)
http://www.acmi.tv/sched/Advocate_Schedule.pdf
Boston Neighborhood Network
http://guide.bnntv.org:8000/Cablecast/Public/Main.aspx?ChannelID=2
Visual Radio #500 will premiere...
Tuesday 3/22/11 at 2:30am and repeat for the next two weeks...3/29/11,April 5, 2011
BROOKLINE
Comcast Ch. 3 / RCN Ch. 3
http://batv.org/program-schedule/2011-03-21
Cambridge
http://tinyurl.com/cctvschedule
TBA usually Saturday night
Hamilton/Wenham
Lexington
Cable: RCN 3, Comcast 8, Verizon 35 This station streams live!
http://www.lexmedia.org/contact-us.html
Time: TBA
Braintree
http://www.bcam.tv/
Sometime week of March 22 TBA
Billerica
http://www.batvinc.org/
Schedule
March 16, 2011 1:30 PM Wednesday
March 17, 2011 7:30 AM Thursday
March 19, 2011 6:30 AM Saturday
March 20, 2011 6:30 AM Sunday
March 23, 2011 1:30 PM Wednesday
March 24, 2011 7:30 PM Thursday
http://www.batvinc.org/node/6
Georgetown
Haverhill
http://www.haverhillcommunitytv.org/
Monson/Palmer Channel 12
http://www.m-pact.tv/maestrov/app/client/webSite/index.php?s=4
TIMES: March 18, 2011 4:48 PM
March 19, 2011 3:43 PM
Newbury
Norfolk
Scituate
http://www.town.scituate.ma.us/sctv/index.html
Somerville 8 PM Friday Nights!
http://access-scat.org/watch-scatv/programming-schedule
Stoneham
http://stonehamtv.org/node/54
Winthrop Channel 3
http://wcat-tv.org/
Woburn
http://www.woburnpublicmediacenter.org/
COMCAST: Channels 9, 10, 22
VERIZON: Channels 43, 45, 47
RCN: Channels 3, 13, 15
VERIZON: Channels 43, 45, 47
RCN: Channels 3, 13, 15
and many more!
REX TRAILER AT WinCAM!
On Wednesday, March 9, 2011 Rex Trailer visited Visual Radio and Boomtown came to Winchester, Massachusetts.
Boomtown aired on WBZ in the Boston area for twenty years According to Boomtownmemories.com,
Rex was on a Philly station, WPTZ, from 1950-1956 with "Rex Trailer's Ranch House" and other shows. On April 4 of 1956 (55 years ago next month!), the show launched on BZ, Channel 4 and, as the site says: "The show had a twenty year run! Over 200,000 kids got on the program!".
Though Romper Room's Miss Jean(with her "magic mirror") and Frank Avruch's Bozo The Clown were taped locally, they were still part of franchises... the Boomtown vibe was solely for the Boston market, making Rex Trailer a beloved New England figure.
You can hear Rex about the wagon train he led all across Massachusetts in the fall of 1961 to bring attention to another health issue, mental retardation. It's the 50th anniversary of that event. We also spoke to Rex on how Jerry Lewis named the Boomtown host as national spokesman for Muscular Dystrophy one year, and about his work with international model Jo Jo Laine.
The Boomtown DVD that is just overflowing with information...and memories of Rex's sidekicks...Pablo, Cactus Pete and Sgt. Billy.
Democratic Senator from Lincoln, Susan Fargo, has filed Legislation to have Rex Trailer named Cowboy of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We invited Rex on the air to support this and to revisit Boomtown.
PSA AVAILABLE
Rex Trailer and Michael Bavaro created a Public Service Announcement at WinCAM for ARC.
This P.S.A. about the upcoming event is available to all access TV and radio stations.
Here's footage of the 1961 Wagon Train across Massachusetts
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7807243532846944007#
Rex Trailer is still involved in helping people with disabilities and supporting The Arc. He was honored for his lifetime of contributions to people with mental and intellectual disabilities at the 50th anniversary Gala for The Arc of Massachusetts, September 10, 2005. This year in his honor The Arc of Massachusetts will be recreating his historic wagon train, only this time with buses.
Rex will be attending the event All Aboard The Arc!, April 10, 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Trailer
THE ARC 50th ANNIVERSARY
http://www.arcmass.org/ArcMassHome/WhoWeAre/tabid/54/Default.aspx
The mission of The Arc of Massachusetts is to enhance the lives of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
We accomplish this through advocacy of supports and services based in the community. Through advocacy and collaboration with others, The Arc of Massachusetts has helped to establish and maintain significant legislation and funding on both the state and federal levels.
http://newprogramsforyou.blogspot.com/2011/03/note-this-blog-is-about-new-community.html
