Montgomery Community Media

The 29th edition of the Monty Awards was held on Nov. 16 at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown. It was a night to celebrate hundreds of community contributors who produce local television shows that are part of the programming of Montgomery Channel 21 and MyMCMedia website. The volunteer recognition evening had more […]

Six television stations that are members in the Montgomery County PEG (Public/Education/Government) organization of community cable stations are combining resources to be the main place to find up-to-date information on Tuesday, June 24, when County voters go to the polls for primary elections concerning County Government, the County delegation to the Maryland General Assembly, Governor […]

In this MyMCMedia extra, author Brian Jay Jones describes his bestselling book, “Jim Henson: The Biography,” as a dream project. Take a look: You can meet Jones at a Gaithesburg Book Festival event on April 16 at the Gaithersburg Library. Find our more: www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org. Related:

Purple Line NOW! hosted a Transportation Forum with Maryland’s gubernatorial candidates on February 18 at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center on the Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus. Candidates who declared or filed their intentions by the end of January 2014 were invited to participate in the event. Participants included:  Howard County Executive Ken Ulman running […]

The 2013 Monty awards ceremony was held on Nov. 17 at BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown. The theme of this year’s event was “Night in the Spotlight,” and dozens of Montgomery Community Media (MCM) contributors attended the ceremony where the focus was clearly on them. The event began with MCM Board President Nancy […]

We are so excited to announce that award-winning broadcast journalist Andrea McCarren is returning to MCM on April 1 to lead a media training class from 7-9 p.m. at our television studios. You may remember that McCarren, who is also employed at WUSA-TV (Channel 9) as an anchor, reporter and producer, taught a media training […]

Quick quiz: what company was the first in the world to patent a digital camera? No, it wasn’t Sony, IBM or HP. It was Kodak… the century-old firm that all but invented and popularized photography. The innovative staff at Kodak actually invented the first digital camera and patented it. But Kodak was so wedded to […]