Boston Neighborhood Network (BNN) is a
public, educational, and government access
Public-access television is traditionally a form of non-commercial mass media where the general public can create content television programming which is narrowcast through cable television specialty channels. Public-access television was crea ...
(PEG) broadcasting service serving
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
,
.
BNN's programming is broadcast on two channels:
* News & Information,
Comcast
Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings),Before the AT&T merger in 2001, the parent company was Comcast Holdings Corporation. Comcast Holdings Corporation now refers to a subsidiary of Comcast Corpora ...
channel 9 and
RCN Cable
RCN Corporation, originally Residential Communications Network, founded in 1993 and based in Princeton, New Jersey, was the first American facilities-based ("overbuild") provider of bundled telephone, cable television, and internet service del ...
channel 15
* Community Access, Comcast channel 23 and RCN channel 83
BNN members have access to two
television studio
A television studio, also called a television production studio, is an installation room in which video productions take place, either for the production of live television and its recording onto video tape or other media such as SSDs, or for t ...
s, digital field production and editing equipment, a
multimedia
Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, or video into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to tradition ...
lab, and a mobile production truck, as well as hands-on media training classes. BNN also operates
WBCA-LP
WBCA-LP (102.9 FM) is a low power radio station ( LPFM) in Boston, Massachusetts. The station operates as a partnership of the Boston Neighborhood Network and the city of Boston.
History
In 2013, for the first time in ten years, the Federal Co ...
radio.
See also
*
List of television stations in Massachusetts
This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
Full-power stations
VC refers to the station's PSIP virtual channel. RF refers to the station's physical RF channel.
Defunct full-power station ...
*
List of wired multiple-system broadband providers in Massachusetts (by municipality)
External links
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BNN on Instagram
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