Montgomery Community Media

Introducing: the new MCM mike flag. Earlier this month, MCM rolled out its new mike flag for on-camera work in the field. With a black background, the newly designed mike flag boasts the MCM orange and white logo and features a play button. What else can I tell you about the flag? Our uber talented […]

I’m Michelle Chavez, a senior at Montgomery Blair High School with an interest in the journalism field.  My interest stems from the sense of responsibility to keep the people around me informed.  My experience comes from both the local to national level.                   Over the past summer, […]

The holiday season is upon us and we have started preparing for our Winter Classes.  We held the last Intro to Video Basics of 2012 on Monday.  We have fifteen new students eager to start their adventure in January with MCM. (Don’t worry if you missed this one, we are having another one on January […]

Although we can not tell you what are the most viewed shows on our two television stations (Channel 19 and Montgomery Channel 21) because we don’t subscribe to Nielsens, we can tell you what people are watching on our website and You Tube channel. For the past few weeks, the Warehouse: Project 4.1 has been […]

Despite the Labor Day holiday, it’s been a busy week at MCM (Montgomery Community Media). On September 1, I covered the Kentlands-Lakelands 5K race in Gaithersburg. This is the 19th year for the race that has grown into the largest 5K race in Montgomery County. A good portion of the proceeds go to charity and […]

It was an easy and scenic drive along the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains into Charlotte. As we approached Charlotte a single tall profile stood out above the trees, then a few more to reveal a modern urban, compact hi-rise skyline but we turned north to Concord for the Maryland delegation headquarters at […]

It was football crazy in Olney on Friday night. Route 108 was filled with cross-town fans riding between Georgia and New Hampshire Ave and all short cuts in between. Fan destinations were Sherwood and Good Counsel High Schools. In the end the game outcomes were split for the hometown teams. Sherwood lost to Quince Orchard […]

MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke caught up with Gaithersburg City Council member Mike Sesma before he left for Charlotte to attend the Democratic National Convention. Sesma is attending the convention as an alternate delegate and will be blogging about his experiences on the MyMCMedia website.  

MCM is launching the Neighborhood Network (NN) to improve our coverage of Montgomery County and to keep residents better connected with their local communities. So, if the lights go out at your house, we want to know about it. You can participate in the new NN as much or little as you want.  If you […]

Paul Ryan and Condi Rice on Wednesday night at the Republican convention focused on the substantive policy differences between the parties. Ryan highlighted the challenges facing Medicare in the near future, while promising that any changes should not impact those currently on it. In contrast, Obamacare has depleted Medicare by over $700 billion.