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Sunday, August 10, 2025

Franklin TV: Flying Lights?

Our Main Studio Update

by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 08/10/2025

They say ‘Time flies when you’re having fun.’ Our sense of time is suspended when we’re engrossed in activities that we enjoy deeply. When the work is fun? All the more so. It’s five already? Where’d the day go? It’s Friday? Where’d the week go? It’s 2025? Where’d a whole decade go? Tempus fugit! Srsly!

Franklin TV: Flying Lights?

We moved into our studio building at the start of 2015, and time has indeed flown. Our main studio is a big space. Big spaces become cluttered. We have de-cluttered. Now, after ten years, we are purging, cleaning, updating. In this final phase of studio we’re starting (again) from scratch. We’re pulling, cleaning, reprogrammimg, and remapping all of our studio luminaires (lights).

These broad ‘softbox’ lights will provide the base illumination for two studio sets. We will fly as many PAR and Fresnel lights for color accents and key areas. Each luminaire will fly again as we upgrade our studio to support the latest production techniques for staging virtual reality sets. Our new lighting layout will afford us more flexible, ample ‘fire power’ to stage more creative projects. We’re working as quickly as we can to fly all of our lights this week – because time is indeed flying.

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Sunday, April 10, 2022

Franklin TV: Goings On. Going Forward

by Pete Fasciano, Executive Director 04/10/2022

‘Shopping' for Shows

As we ramp up our post-COVID studio activities we are looking for programming. If you think that you would like to pursue a TV program of your own, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We make it easy. We promise. Now you can interview guests over Zoom – right from our studio as if they were seated right in front of you. That literally opens up a whole world of opportunity. Fascinating folks who would otherwise not have time to come to our studio from wherever can now ‘stop by’ for a virtual sit-down and chat.

Town Chambers – The Sound

We are aware of audience reports regarding noisy or scratchy sound during our coverage of the government meetings. We have been doing all we can to keep the microphone mixing systems in Chambers functioning long enough and quietly enough until we can replace them with new gear. What we need is very specific. Only 2 companies manufacture these devices. They are on back order, like so many other items that people can’t easily obtain because of supply chain issues. We are also working on implementing a temporary system this week until we can install an optimal solution.

Graduation ‘22

This year FHS Graduation 2022 takes place on June 3rd. It’s less than 7 weeks away. That time will hurtle by in a blink, so we start planning and prepping about now. Our latest HD equipment update that I mentioned last week is part of the preparations. We’ll be fine-tuning and testing over the next two weeks or so. This year Franklin High is again conducting the ceremonies outside on the field. If the weather hints at rain then we’ll return to the gym. Either way, we’ll be ready.