Reporter Meaghann Mellen was at the Mayor’s Charity Ball last night. We’ll have have full report here on Monday. YOu can also catch it, and the rest of the week’s news, on Marlborough This Week!

WMCT-TV is working on a documentary called, “The Reality of Ghosts.” The idea came about due to the popularity of the two ghost hunting specials WMCT has produced over the past two years. The ParaCon was held in Rhode Island last weekend and Dan Guindon and Meaghann Mellen were there talking to some pretty interesting people!

Meaghann Mellen and Dan Guindon researching "The Reality of Ghosts" which will be completed for airing in October 2012

Guindon and crew members Vanessa Gallant and Mike Lawton will be on location for a ghost hunt with NESPI on April 28th. Check back here for more details as “The Reality of Ghosts” continues shooting!

WMCT-TV and it’s sister station, Marlborough Access have announced their partnership with The Audio Journal in Worcester. The Audio Journal is Central Massachusetts’ radio reading service for those who are print disabled. Their radio programming will play over the bulletin board on Marlborough Access as well as from time to time on WMCT.
“This is a great service that we are more than happy to be able to provide to our viewership,” said Dan Guindon, Executive Director of WMCT-TV and Marlborough Access.
“We had been running NPR (National Public Radio),” added Program Director, Rob O’Keefe, “but we think this is a much better fit for our viewers.”
To find out more about Audio Journal you can click here.

WMCT-TV announced that Corner Office will be returning to the stations regular schedule lineup by this weekend. The “show short” series had taken a a long break between the former-Mayor Nancy Stevens leaving office and Mayor Arthur Vigeant taking over the job.
Corner Office is hosted by Dan Guindon who talks to the Mayor about current events and news going on that pertain to city business. The first episode with Mayor Vigeant is being taped today (Wednesday, April 4th) at the Mayor’s office. The program should be ready for air by the weekend, if not sooner!

It’s been 4 days since Comcast made their channel lineup change placing WMCT on channel 8 and Marlborough Access (formerly known as m8) on channel 96.  Verizon “piggy-backs” Comcast’s signal so the move also affected their channel lineup, moving WMCT to channel 33 and Marlborough Access to channel 34.

“In 16 years I’ve seen several channel lineup changes to our stations and none of them have gone so smoothly,” said Executive Director, Dan Guindon.

He said Comacst sent out letters to their customers to let them know of the change.  WMCT and Marlborough Access notified viewers through this web site and WMCT’s Facebook page (have YOU liked us yet?).  Marlborough Access producers were notified by a blast email from Access Coordinator, Vanessa Gallant.

“We have fielded one call from one Comcast viewer who said that he didn’t get a letter in the mail from Comcast, but that’s it!” added Guindon.  “Not bad, considering past confusions.”

WMCT and m8 were informed of a channel line up change by Comcast.  WWDP will move from channel 19 to channel 10.  WMCT will move from channel 10 to channel 8.  m8 (which will take on a new name to be announced later) will move from channel 8 to channel 96.

“It’s not an easy thing to have to do, but we’ve done it before,” said Executive Director, Dan Guindon.  “There isn’t anything we can do about it.”

Customers of Comcast Cable will see the change take place on Tuesday, March 20th. 

On Thursday, Dan Guindon, Rob O’Keefe and Mike Lawton went to the home of new Marlborough Mayor, Arthur Vigeant and talked to him about growing up in Marlborough and becoming Mayor of the city.
The exclusive interview will run in place of Marlborough This Week for the next couple of weeks. We’ll also have it here on the web site this weekend so keep checking in!

WMCT-TV announced today that they have hired Alycia Brandt as the new News Director and Marlborough This Week anchor. Alycia has a strong writing background and has interned at WCVB Channel 5 and WMUR in Manchester, NH.
“We’re very happy to have Alycia on board and we look forward to seeing her in action,” said Executive Director, Dan Guindon.
Alycia just started as a freelancer with WMCT not long before former News Director, Kristen Doucet moved on to Charter TV3 in Worcester.
“Anytime you have to replace someone like (Doucet) it’s not easy. She’s been around for 5 years and people get used to seeing her,” continued Guindon, “but I’m confident that they will really like Alycia.”
Brandt takes over News Director duties on March 5th. Marlborough This Week will return Friday, March 9th.

Alycia Brandt will be the new face on Marlborough This Week beginning March 5th

On February 10th, News Director at WMCT-TV, Kristen Doucet anchored her final newscast.  She is moving on to Charter TV3 in Worcester after 5 years in Marlborough.

WMCT has been interviewing candidates to replace Doucet and will announce the hiring of the next News Director on Monday.

It may have been taped before the holidays, but A Day In The Life has another exciting episode running now on WMCT-TV!

ADITL at Hanover Theatre:

Go to the schedules page to see all play times!