Salem Local Access 50th Anniversary

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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07/16/2025

A reminder that for a very brief period, the CTV-30 bulletin board graphics were generated by an Apple II computer.

03/26/2025

This is Salem High School student Dave Andrus interviewing then Town Manager Don Jutton on water usage in Salem circa 1982. As a student, Dave produced a number of reports on Salem infrastructure and social issues of the time. Dave still lives in Salem, and you can find him around the holiday season portraying the Grinch at Salem events.

01/03/2025

The Salem School District Televison channel designation for many years, prior to that, it was CTV-8

09/27/2024

A little snippet of the CTV-30 message board from 1995. The voice over was provided by then TV Production teacher, Marty McCue. Marty started his career in radio and cable news and had a golden voice. Marty passed a few years ago and we miss him very much