Salem Local Access 50th Anniversary

08/04/2026

1978 was the second time that we recorded the Salem Board of Trade Christmas Parade. We had a great student crew, many of them would go on to have long careers in the broadcast field. I coerced a friend into commentating for a few years. Parades are a great snapshot of a community and should always be treasured and preserved.

05/25/2026

Early 1970's station ID. TV workshop student Michael Dill recorded the voice over.

05/16/2026

1971 Salem Educational Access Slide. This was composed by placing a sheet of glass over a photo and then placing stick-on, three-dimensional letters on the glass. A slide was then taken of the final composition.

03/30/2026

We love preserving Salem History! Here's a 50-year-old video that's undergoing Ai video enhancement. It will be airing in the next few weeks on our History on Tape series.

03/15/2026

Circa 1975 Program introduction by Arthur Berlin, Salem School District Director of Services.

03/14/2026

Steve Igo presenting the weather on the weekly, student produced "CTV-8" News, circa 1976.

01/10/2026

Did you know that Salem's Local Access was first cablecast on Channel 3 in Salem, Derry and Windham?

09/17/2025

Here's a link to a documentary on President Gerald Ford's visit to Salem Depot on September 11, 1975. It would be the first time a POTUS would visit Salem. It would also be the first ever live television remote by Salem School District Television.
Arthur Berlin, Director of Media Services, would make arrangements with Continental Cablevision, to connect the stations modulator so that the president's visit could be cablecast live to the community.

SCTV is committed to the ideals of building bridges in the community by using public access programming to serve the residents of Salem, NH. SCTV is a central conduit for local information using a multimedia approach, via the television channel, bulletin boards, web sites, Podcasts, Video On Demand,...

09/16/2025

Rest in peace Clayton Michaud, Clayton was a member of our student television production crew for Blue Devil Football in the late 1980's.

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07/17/2025

We are very excited to digitize approximately 150 of our oldest video tape recordings. It took a number of years to find the machine that could play them back and we estimate that there are only three in the entire country . We recently found a technician in Arizona that had the expertise to restore it and will begin to digitize the tapes this fall. What does it take to get these 50 plus year old tapes to play? Well, that’s a whole story in itself . Stay tuned for some sneak peeks this fall!

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