C.R. Douglas says that kind of cable access could never be duplicated today. “There is too much choice, and public access will never have the heyday it had in the ’90s because of that,” he said.

by Bill Pearis. When I moved to NYC in the late ’90s I was fairly obsessed with the weird world of cable access television, something we didn’t have in the small town where I grew up.

Local access stations are largely funded through a fee tacked on to subscribers by the cable providers and passed along to the station. Marblehead has two cable providers, Comcast and Verizon.

Holliston Fire Chief Michael Cassidy's cable access show has won a pair of Communicator Awards. The show, created during the COVID-19 pandemic, features Cassidy reading children's books.