Excellent job by our staff and freelancers today on the live Labor Day Parade coverage!  Sue Leeber and Kristen Doucet did their usual great job of calling the parade.  Rob O’Keefe did a good job in his Parade directing debut!  And the rest of the crew (Kelly McLaughlin, Mike Lawton, Alec Palmer, Jim Coggins, Justin Petty, Rick Doty and Dan Guindon) did great!

If you want to see the play times for the parade on WMCT for the next two weeks click here.

WMCT-TV is proud to announce that they will have a crew covering the Lions Club Bed Race at 9am on Labor Day morning. Usually, the staff is busy with technical set up for the parade, which reaches the WMCT-TV location shortly after noon.
“We have a really strong crew that will handle all that needs to be done. That will allow for several of us to focus on the Bed Race,” said Executive Director, Dan Guindon.
The idea of covering the race live was Program Director, Rob O’Keefe’s. He will handle the play-by-play operations while Guindon, Producer Mike Lawton and Crew Member, Jim Coggins will run camera for the event.
“It will be great. We’re looking forward to adding the race to our usual coverage,” stated O’Keefe.

After A Day In The Life and Movie House host, Alexandra Rosenfeld announced she was leaving a few weeks ago, WMCT was left with a couple holes to fill. One of them, according to Executive Director Dan Guindon, has now been filled.

Local Marlborough resident, Melanie Francis will become the new host of A Day In The Life when it begins it’s new season in November.
“Melanie has been working as a reporter for Marlborough This Week, so bringing her in to A Day In The Life should be an easy transition, ” stated Guindon.

Francis said she’s really excited to become the host of one of WMCT’s most established shows. Having worked with the staff of WMCT she is comfortable moving ahead as part of this production.

A replacement host for Movie House has yet to be announced. Guindon said they are working on it.

Alexandra Rosenfeld

On Friday, A Day In The Life and Movie House host, Alexandra Rosenfeld notified WMCT that she is moving to Indiana to further her career in broadcasting.

“We wish Al the best, of course, but at the same time we are sad to see her go,” stated WMCT Executive Director Dan Guindon. “She was a big part of our family here for a couple years. She’ll be missed…and hard to replace.”

Rosenfeld had become a fixture in WMCT viewer homes on holidays when Movie House would run holiday marathons of it’s successful program.

Guindon went on to say that he and Program Director, Rob O’Keefe would begin the process of looking for replacements to host Movie House and A Day In The Life sometime in early August.

The crew of A Day In The Life completed a shoot with the Marlborough Fire Department. The new episode will start airing Sunday, July 18th at 7pm! We covered a lot of training exercises and even an 8 alarm fire! You need to watch this so you can really understand how much goes into a day in the life of a fire fighter!

Here is a sample of the new episode: