About Us

What is Bedford TV?

Bedford TV is membership based, non-profit community access television station serving the town of Bedford. Our studio is centrally located at Old Town Hall on South Road. The Bedford TV mission is to make media available, reflective and responsive to the needs of our community. We broadcast on three channels on both Comcast and Verizon cable systems.

Comcast Channels 8 and 22 broadcast video programming and Comcast Channel 9 displays the Community Bulletin Board.

Verizon Channels 38 and 40 broadcast video programming and Verizon Channel 39 displays the Community Bulletin Board.

Our Hours

Monday: 11am-7pm

Tuesday: 11am-7pm

Wednesday: 11am-7pm

Thursday: 11am-7pm

Friday: 10am-6pm

Please call ahead if you are picking up USBs to ensure that somebody is in the office. Additional times for shoots are available upon request.

Staff


Brian Hebert
: Executive Director
Brian joined Bedford TV in March 2022. Before that he was at NewTV where he served as Director of Member Services. Brian currently lives in Beverly, MA, with his wife Annie. He has a love for staying active. During the summer months, when he is not fishing or golfing, he will often take trips up to New Hampshire to hike in the White Mountains. When he is not outdoors you can almost always find him around a hockey rink.

 

Michael Russillo: Production Coordinator
Michael joined Bedford TV in October 2022. Michael is from Camden, Maine and graduated from Keene State College in 2022, majoring in film
production. He has a passion for film, photography, and other forms of media. He’s always looking for stories to tell and people to connect with. His main passion is non-fiction film, but he eventually wants to dive into a wide array of genres in the future. In his free time, he flies drones, takes photography walks, and works on films.

Marc Gustafson: Programming Coordinator
Marc first connected with Bedford TV in 2008, when he  and another staff member at the Bedford VA were assisting a veteran based music group that were using music to spread awareness about homelessness among the veteran population. A couple years later, Marc assisted with creating a collaboration between the Bedford VA and Bedford TV, as far as local production of the annual Veterans Creative Arts event. Ultimately that led Marc to volunteer production opportunities over the years and eventually the opportunity to join Bedford TV part-time in the summer of 2020. Marc currently lives in Lynnfield, MA. In his free time, he enjoys helping his daughter with her music career and spending time with family.

Jenn Puhle: Administrator
Jenn joined Bedford TV as a volunteer in March, 2014 as a founding co-anchor for Bedford TV News and later as a technical director. Jenn became a part of the BTV staff as the Administrator in the Summer of 2014. Originally from New York, she graduated from Binghamton University with a Master’s Degree in Education. After a career in teaching middle school math, Jenn continues her love of Algebra by tutoring many of Bedford’s middle school students. She continues to volunteer at BTV by producing “Neighbors to Know”, winning first place at the 2020 ACM-NE Awards for Best Profile Talk Show. She enjoys spending time with her 2 sons, kayaking, and playing tennis, not necessarily at the same time.

Sonal Patel: Digital Marketing & Outreach Specialist
Sonal joined Bedford TV in February 2019.  Originally from San Diego, she moved to Bedford with her family in 2017.  She has a background in Biology and Chemistry and worked in the biotech field for several years.  As the marketing and outreach specialist, she is in charge of managing our social media and website, planning events, and building relationships with the local community.  In her free time she enjoys spending time with her husband and three young children, traveling, cooking, and watching documentaries.

Dillon Tavitian: Production Assistant
Dillon joined Bedford TV in February of 2023. Dillon is from New Hampshire and enjoys watching movies, music, and writing. Dillon is a big horror movie fan and one of his favorite recent horror movies was M3GAN. Dillon also enjoys podcasting and hopes to connect with more people and grow his network of other people who share similar and different ideas. 

Board Members

President – Paul Wittman: Paul joined Bedford TV as a volunteer in 2019 after a 37-year career in high-tech training working at HP, Compaq, and Digital (DEC) as a Instructional Designer, Software developer, and Video Producer. Before that he worked at community colleges in Pennsylvania and Tennessee. Paul and his wife Leslie have lived in Bedford since 1989.

Treasurer – Bob Dutton: Bob and his wife Jean have lived in Bedford for almost 50 years. Their three kids all went through the Bedford school system. He’s an engineer at the core and is known in some circles as “Mr. Fixit” for his tendency to take things apart and (generally!) put them back together again. He started at Bedford TV as a volunteer some ten years ago, working in the “back room” to help keep the technology humming, and was an occasional producer of the BTV News show. He was elected to the Board of Directors in 2015 and has since served as President and Treasurer of the Board. He is also a volunteer with the Bedford CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) and a retired Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 194.

Clerk – Scott Counsell: Scott has been serving on the Board of Directors since 2023.  A longtime Bedford resident, he worked in community access for many years in Greater Boston and more recently served on a town committee overseeing our local cable TV operations.  Scott has been a dedicated advocate for community access – he has testified before the state legislature on several occasions to speak on behalf of cable access in the Commonwealth, and is actively engaged in efforts to preserve this valuable resource for our community.

Ralph Hammond: Ralph Hammond, a lifelong resident of Bedford, has held a variety of positions in the Bedford Public Schools, teaching grade levels K-8, serving as principal of Lane School, and retiring as the fifth principal of Davis School. He has served on several town committees. In retirement he has volunteered in several capacities in Bedford and around the world, addressing literacy challenges in Nepal, the Philippines and Haiti, as well as coordinating Rotary Global Grants in more than 55 countries. Volunteering at the Bedford VA Hospital was especially rewarding. He has ridden in the Pan Mass Challenge for 10 years to fund cures for cancer not only for himself but for others. Now as a volunteer at Bedford TV, he has found a very unique opportunity in helping Lane and John Glenn Middle school students learn the value of volunteering not just to help others but to learn and gain mentoring skills focused on building an environment of compassion, consideration, kindness, and teamwork.

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