Give Me My Rockville Channel!

As readers of >Rockville Central know, I am a big fan of The Rockville Channel, which is the City’s award-winning cable station. Among other things, it shows meetings of the Mayor and Council live in their entirety and then repeats them various times throughout the week.

It’s Channel 11 on Comcast. And there’s the problem. The thing is, I am not a Comcast customer nor am I about to become one. I can point my browser to The Rockville Channel’s live video stream, but half the time when I do that the connection gets dropped and I miss important bits.

During the most recent (non-televised) meeting of the Mayor and Council, they discussed community engagement. During this part if the discussion, Council Member Phyllis Marcuccio described me when she pointed out, in part, that “As you drive around Rockville, you see dishes up on the roofs of a lot of houses. These ‘dish people’ don’t get The Rockville Channel. We need to make sure we keep them in mind too.”

Right on, Phyllis! Sometimes I am up a creek if I want to see what is going in the Mayor and Council meetings.

Here is my modest request of the City’s technical folks:

There must be a way to make the Mayor and Council meetings available in a non real-time way, so that citizens could view various meetings on demand (almost like YouTube). That way, you can serve more people at once (there would be no bottleneck with multiple connections at once) and if something failed a user could just try again.

At yesterday’s Rockville Roundtable lunch, Mark Pierzchala mentioned that he thought something like that was in the offing . . . so I say: Yes, please.

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