MCTV Income History

MCCI, the corporate parent of the MCTV project, receives quarterly payments from Comcast once per quarter. In our 2005 proposal to the town we budgeted $21,750 per quarter. In November of 2017 we received our highest check ever for $37,047. Here is the history of payments received:

MCCI Comcast Franchise Fee Income

2005 September (capital) *
2007 September (capital) **
2009 September (capital) **

2006 April
2006 July
2006 October
2007 January

2007 April
2007 July
2007 October
2008 January

2008 April
2008 July
2008 October
2009 January

2009 April
2009 July
2009 October
2010 January

2010 April
2010 July
2010 October
2011 January

2011 April
2011 July
2011 October
2012 January

2012 April
2012 July
2012 October
2013 January

2013 April
2013 July
2013 October
2014 January

2014 April
2014 July
2014 October
2015 January

2015 April
2015 July
2015 October
2016 February

2016 May
2016 August
2016 November
2017 February

2017 May
2017 August
2017 November
2018 February

2018 May
2018 July
2018 October
2019 February

$20,000
$15,000
$15,000

$23,344
$23,985
$22,856
$23,518

$23,749
$24,390
$23,881
$22,468

$24,295
$25,852
$24,773
$25,578

$25,955
$26,664
$25,966
$26,312

$26,225
$27,618
$27,354
$28,176

$27,919
$29,125
$28,217
$28,353

$27,720
$29,963
$29,213
$28,916

$29,507
$30,177
$30,059
$29,838

$30,365
$31,228
$30,752
$31,097

$32,004
$32,275
$31,430
$31,810

$34,473
$35,148
$34,700
$35,784

$36,748
$36,823
$37,047
$36,000

$34,113
$34,341
$34,364
$34,487

* In September of 2005, while the RFP for the PEG contract was in motion, Comcast mailed the second of four capital grant payments to GCTV, who rightly put the money into escrow, pending the outcome of the RFP. When MCCI won the contract GCTV passed the money onto MCCI, who used roughly $14,000 as administrative / programming funds to run the station. The remaining $6,000 was used for capital purchases. MCTV then "paid back" the $14k on a monthly basis over the course of two years.

** September 2007 Capital payment was spent almost entirely on a Princeton Server digital playback system, with 1.2 terabytes of storage (up to 400 hours of programming!) and two channel outputs so we can drive both channel 17 and channel 15 if we choose to do that again. The next and last capital payment of $15,000 was paid in September of 2009 and was primarily used to purchase a Sony Anycast.

There is more budget information available for download on this website in the Documents section.