Gardner Educational Television, Channel 8, is granted to the City of Gardner as a governmental and educational partnership. Gardner Educational Television (GETV) is supported by Comcast Cable, under a franchise agreement with the City of Gardner. The channel is administered by the Mayor of Gardner with the advice and counsel of the appointed Gardner Cable Television Advisory Board. The purpose of the channel is to serve the citizens of Gardner with quality programming that contains information on the governmental, educational, and public activities in the city.
Objectives of Gardner Educational Television
- To provide information about programs and services offered by government departments, agencies, boards, commissions and government-supported agencies.
- To expand citizen awareness of government and its decision-making processes by cablecasting live and tape delayed government meetings and civic events.
- To enhance existing public information materials by using cable television as a public information tool.
- To highlight activities and programs about the Gardner Schools, its students, staff, and policies.
- To promote public safety
- To ensure that all programming and operations meets ethical, professional, artistic, and legal standards of the broadcasting/cable television industry.
Gardner Educational Television Electronic Bulletin Board
The GETV Electronic Bulletin Board is available for the purpose of promoting community events, and providing public service information. The content of the announcements must be non-commercial. GETV cablecasts the Electronic Bulletin Board on channel 8. Each message runs 10 to 15 seconds, and the entire system repeats approximately every 10 minutes. Bulletin Board users must acknowledge responsibility for the content of the listing.
* Schedule
* We reserve the right to edit the content of announcements, as well as accept or decline a request for an announcement.
* No profit-oriented announcements please.
* No anonymous submissions.
* Submission Deadline is 2 weeks prior to event or service!
* Text should try to be kept to 20 - 25 words.
* Please send announcements via:
o Fax: 978-632-7836
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