Franklin TV schedule for Monday, January 26, 2026 (Your local Public, Education & Government "PEG" station)

• Franklin All Access TV - Our Public Access Channel (Comcast 6, Verizon 26) = MONDAY

7:00 am Aging Boldfully: Look Back then Move Forward

8:00 am SAFE Coalition: Youth Sports

9:00 am U. S. Army: Jazz Ambassadors 04-01-19

11:30 am Cooking Thyme: Lasagna

12:00 pm Brook'n'Cookin: Meatballs

12:30 pm Cook with Linda: Broccoli Salad

1:30 pm     Pizzapalooza: White Pizza

2:00 pm New England Candlepins: Summer 2019 Show 4

3:00 pm Candlepin New Generation: Show 10

4:30 pm Winning Ways with the MIAA: Shaun Hart Pt 1

5:30 pm The Circuit Breakers

7:00 pm Frank's Musings: Venezuela

10:00 pm Circle of Friends: Kim Moberg & Jenna Nichols

• Franklin Pride TV - Our Educational Channel        (Comcast 8, Verizon 28) = MONDAY

7:00 am Public School Event: Concert Hour Day 1

8:30 am SAFE Coalition: Youth Sports

9:30 am Winning Ways with the MIAA: Shaun Hart Pt 1

10:30 am FHS Winter Jazz 01-29-25

12:00 pm Middle School Winter Music: 2025: Band

1:30 pm     FHS Varsity Wrestling: v Taunton 01-05-23

3:00 pm FHS Boys Varsity Basketball v Sharon 01-23-26

5:00 pm FHS Boys Varsity Hockey v Natick 01-19-26

9:00 pm FHSTC: Peter and the Starcatcher

• Franklin Town Hall TV - Our Government Channel (Comcast 9, Verizon 29) = MONDAY

8:00 am Planning Board 01-12-26

10:00 am Finance Committee 01-14-26

2:00 pm Planning Board 01-12-26

7:00 pm Planning Board  CHAMBERS  88354277065

Planning Board canceled due to storm

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Franklin TV: Spreadsheets

Math is Mathin’ – Totally.

by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 01/25/2026

In days of yore, when someone’s stated claims just didn’t make sense we used to say, “ Wait. That just doesn’t add up.”

Today, the street says, “ Yo, that math ain’t mathin’.”

Franklin TV: Spreadsheets 

Enter the spreadsheets. I love Excel. That sounds so – nerdishly geeky. But, it’s true. Why? Because math is truth. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. In a time when our cable funding is slowly shriveling up from cord-cutting, we all need to work and ‘math’ our budgets with sharper pencils. (Sharper – mouse-clicks?)

As Public Access TV folks, we strive to do more with less. Is what we do ‘enough’? The best way to answer that is, “What would our services cost – if we didn’t exist?” Although our media services are free, what’s the fair market rate for what we do?”

So, every year I recreate a standard media services ‘Line Card’. It’s a breakdown of all the gear and labor that goes into a media project – from first idea to final release. I develop a detailed reference ‘Line Card’ as a Menu of our equipment and services. (I’ll have the Two Cameras – with a side of audio, please.) It averages the market rate services from ‘for hire’ media and production companies across the country.

Then the fun begins. I combine and tally services for the types of productions we create. I model studio projects; location projects. Then I tally all the episodes we produce for each program series, school games, civic events, government meetings. It’s our report card. It’s our North Star. It’s – a lot.

In fact, it’s typically 2.3x to 2.6x our income. What does that mean in real numbers?

‘For hire’ media needs a margin of at least 1.8x just to survive. We’re healthy, so far.

Franklin has 33,000 residents. At $18 per capita (and dropping), our annual income is around $594,000. Our ‘fair market’ value total is $1,425,000; 2.4x our income. This is what a performance reality check should look like. The numbers reveal all.

Our math? It’s totally mathin’. It’s not the income that matters. It’s the outcome.

And – as always –

Thank you for watching.

Thanks for listening to wfpr●fm, 

and staying informed at Franklin●news. 

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FHS girls & boys basketball teams top Sharon on Friday, boys in OT (video)

Via Instagram, Franklin TV, and our subscription to HockomockSports.com, we share the results of the Winter sports competition for Franklin High School on Friday, January 23, 2026

Boys Basketball = Sharon, 57 @ Franklin, 59 – Final (OT)

Franklin TV video available for replay - https://www.youtube.com/live/1h7Xo2FZIDc?&t=1618

– Franklin senior Justice Samuels grabbed a defensive rebound and went the length of the court for a layup with 15 seconds to go and the Panthers survived as Sharon’s potential game-winning three hit off the front end of the rim. Freshman Greg Katznelson scored down low to cut the deficit to two and junior Teigan Jones did the same with 20 seconds to go as the Eagles rallied to force the overtime period. Seniors Jack Sullivan, James Crowley, and Ben Scaccia all had a bucket in overtime and sophomore Danny Santos hit a huge three late — just the second triple of the game for the Panthers to make it 57-55. Jones answered down the other end in the paint to tie it up. Franklin flipped a two-point deficit at half (26-24) into a two-point lead going into the fourth, and despite only one field goal in the last eight minutes (9-for-12 from the free throw line) stayed in it. Samuels finished with a season-high 16 points to lead the Panthers while Scaccia had 14 and both Santos and Sullivan chipped in with 10 points. Katznelson scored a game-high 19 points and Jones finished with 12 points for the Eagles.

Girls Basketball =  Franklin, 63 @ Sharon, 38 – Final 

– Franklin kept its streak going, winning its sixth straight game, and kept hold of its one-game lead in the Kelley-Rex division. The Panthers wasted no time taking control, scoring 20 points in the first quarter and building an 11-point lead. Tessah Rodrigues and Sophia Sacramone got off to good starts, combining for 13 in the first. Franklin kept it going in the second, as Brielle Nicholls scored five and Kaylee Fernandes added four and the Panthers added five more its halftime lead. The Panthers sealed the win with a 16-6 third quarter. Sharon would win the fourth by a point, thanks to eight points from Dharma Trivedi who out-dueled Fernandes (seven points) in the final eight minutes. Fernandes led Franklin with a game-high 15 points and Rodrigues added 14. Trivedi had four threes and scored a team-high 14. Freshman Lila McCarty added 13 points for the Eagles (going 9-of-12 from the line).

Swimming

Franklin @ Milford, 4:00

Gymnastics

Oliver Ames @ Franklin, 7:00

For other results across the Hockomock League (subscription required)  

https://hockomocksports.com/fridays-schedule-scoreboard-01-23-26/

FHS Panther sports results shared via Twitter & subscription to HockomockSports.com

Franklin TV schedule for Friday, January 23, 2026 (Your local Public, Education & Government "PEG" station)

• Franklin All Access TV - Our Public Access Channel (Comcast 6, Verizon 26) = FRIDAY

7:00 am Franklin Art Association: Katie Kindilien

8:30 am Frank's Musings: Venezuela

10:00 am Aging Boldfully: Look Back then Move Forward

11:00 am Senior Connection: Spaghetti Bolognese

12:00 pm Brook'n'Cookin: Meatballs

12:30 pm Cooking with Linda: Broccoli Salad

1:30 pm     Pizzapalooza: Emergency Pizza

2:00 pm New England Candlepins: Summer 2019 Show 4

3:00 pm Candlepin New Generation: Show 9

3:30 pm U. S. Army: Jazz Ambassadors 04-01-19

6:00 pm Jon Mitchell & Randy LaRosa: 12-Tone Music

8:00 pm Sons & Daughters of Italy: Italian Immigrants

9:30 pm Winning Ways with the MIAA: Shaun Hart Pt 1

• Franklin Pride TV - Our Educational Channel        (Comcast 8, Verizon 28) = FRIDAY

7:00 am Lifelong Music: Strings School 01-22-25

8:30 am ArtWeek: Theater in the Open

9:30 am Middle School Winter Music: 2025: Band

11:00 am FHSTC - Flowers for Algernon

2:00 pm FHS Winter Jazz 01-29-25

4:00 pm FHS Boys Varsity Basketball v Stoughton 01-13-26

8:30 pm Franklin Footlighters: High School Musical Jr.

• Franklin Town Hall TV - Our Government Channel (Comcast 9, Verizon 29) = FRIDAY

8:00 am Zoning Board of Appeals 12-23-25

12:30 pm Police Station Building Committee 01-06-26

2:00 pm Zoning Board of Appeals 12-23-25

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Town Council spends almost 2 hours to ultimately & unanimously approve appointments of 2 to the ZBA (video)

The Town Council met for 5 hours on Wednesday night, Jan 21, 2026. 8 members were present in Chambers with one absent.

Franklin TV video for replay -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSZJNniE9Gk

The meeting agenda ->    https://www.franklinma.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2101 

Quick recap:

• 2 hours were spent talking around and around the Zooning Board of Appeals appointments. After all was said, both highly qualified candidates were approved unanimously (in separate votes)
• Brutus Cantoreggi presented on the DPW and their infrastructure work. As he began he introduced the entire management team which was also present and several of them has an opportunity to answer specific questions during the segment
• The Council again combined "councilor comments and future agenda items" sections in an attempt to speed up the closing of the session. However ended up in an extensive discussion on future topics around budget, timeline, engagement, to have and hold Joint Budget sessions, etc. Seems like that may happen after the budget is released in April. Stay tuned
• An item coming out of the ZBA discussion earlier was a desire to expand the board membership from 3 to 5. That would require a charter change, and per the prior 1 hour plus discussion at the Dec 17,2025 meeting on charter changes, would not likely happen in time for a November 2026 ballot question (although that was the request)

My notes in one PDF ->   https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lz6tu7vPWXskijNcph_qOcdToMGFgi5t/view?usp=drive_link

This highlights the central role DPW infrastructure plays in Town operations

The presentation PDF can be previewed here

https://ma-franklin.civicplus.com/DocumentCenter/View/8133/Town-Council-Presentation---January-21-2026

Franklin TV schedule for Thursday, January 22, 2026 (Your local Public, Education & Government "PEG" station)

• Franklin All Access TV - Our Public Access Channel (Comcast 6, Verizon 26) = THURSDAY

11:33 am Comfort Food: Comfort Food

12:03 pm Brook'n'Cookin: Meatballs

12:35 pm Cooking with Linda: Broccoli Salad

1:30 pm     Pizzapalooza: Emergency Pizza

2:00 pm New England Candlepins: Summer 2019 Show 4

3:00 pm Candlepin New Generation: Show 9

3:30 pm Aging Boldfully: Look Back then Move Forward

7:00 pm Frank's Musings: Venezuela

8:00 pm Metrowest Symposium: Equity & Access in Arts & Culture

9:00 pm Circle of Friends: Ellis Paul

• Franklin Pride TV - Our Educational Channel        (Comcast 8, Verizon 28) = THURSDAY

9:30 am Public School Event: Concert Hour Day 1

11:00 am FHS Winter Jazz 01-29-25

2:00 pm FHSTC - Flowers for Algernon

3:00 pm Winning Ways with the MIAA: Shaun Hart Pt 1

4:00 pm FHS Varsity Wrestling: v Taunton 01-05-23

7:00 pm FHS Girls Varsity Hockey v Mansfield 01-07-26

9:00 pm Franklin Footlighters: High School Musical Jr.

• Franklin Town Hall TV - Our Government Channel (Comcast 9, Verizon 29) = THURSDAY

8:00 am Conservation Commission 01-15-26

12:00 pm Police Station Building Committee 01-06-26

2:00 pm Conservation Commission 01-15-26

7:30 pm Zoning Board of Appeals  REMOTE  955 5934 9180

 

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Franklin TV schedule for Wednesday, January 21, 2026 (Your local Public, Education & Government "PEG" station)

• Franklin All Access TV - Our Public Access Channel (Comcast 6, Verizon 26) = WEDNESDAY

7:30 am     ArtWeek: Theater in the Open

8:30 am Vera Meyer: Glass Armonica

10:00 am Franklin Art Association: Katie Kindilien

11:30 am Comfort Food: Comfort Food

12:00 pm Brook'n'Cookin: Meatballs

12:30 pm Cooking with Linda: Broccoli Salad

1:30 pm     Pizzapalooza: Emergency Pizza

2:00 pm New England Candlepins: Summer 2019 Show 4

3:00 pm Candlepin New Generation: Show 9

3:30 pm More Perfect Union: Susan Rodriguez McDowell

6:00 pm U. S. Army: Jazz Ambassadors 04-01-19

8:30 pm Circle of Friends: Ellis Paul

• Franklin Pride TV - Our Educational Channel        (Comcast 8, Verizon 28) = WEDNESDAY

7:00 am Public School Event: Concert Hour Day 1

8:30 am Lifelong Music: Strings School 01-22-25

10:00 am SAFE Coalition: Youth Sports

11:00 am Middle School Winter Music: 2025: Band

1:30 pm     FHS Girls Varsity Hockey v Mansfield 01-07-26

4:00 pm FHS Varsity Swimming v Taunton 01-09-26

8:00 pm FHS Varsity Wrestling: v Taunton 01-05-23

10:00 pm FHS Boys Varsity Basketball v Stoughton 01-13-26

• Franklin Town Hall TV - Our Government Channel (Comcast 9, Verizon 29) = WEDNESDAY

8:00 am Town Council 01-07-26

1:30 pm     Town Council 01-07-26

6:00 pm Town Council  CHAMBERS 837 6897 1986

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