Our History
Arlington Community Media, Inc. was formed by a group of Arlington citizens with a vision of better communication in their town.
In 1980, the town licensed its first cable television franchise with American Cablesystems. For the first time, there was a facility for public communication within the town, a combined public access and local origination studio at 81 Mystic Street. During the next two decades, hundreds of citizens used the facility to produce programming for Arlington cable subscribers in the three classic categories: public, educational, and government (PEG). Under that original license, an organization was formed to help the public learn of and utilize the Studio. The board of directors and members of that organization, known as Arlington Cable Access (ACA), maintained the www.arlingtonstudio.com website until the end of September 2006. That site, now operated by Arlington Community Media Inc. (ACMI), is the site you are currently browsing.
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