top stories

Archive for the 'Site News' Category

  • tag:
    btvn

ADMIN NOTICE: Comments on btvn Posts

Published by Max on March 28, 2012. 1 Comment

Hi Everyone!

Max here, filling in for Stephen, who I’m sorry to say has suffered a family bereavement (so I’ll be helping out for a few days if there’s any breaking news). We’ve recently suffered a spam attack, resulting in over 4,500 comments waiting for Stephen to approve, 99.999% of them pure rubbish. With his permission, I’ve bulk-deleted all of them.

However, there’s a small chance some legit posts never ended up making it onto the site, so if you’ve made a comment in the last week or so and don’t see it anywhere, then please feel free to re-post it.

UPDATE (3/29):  As of today, we’ve added CAPTCHA technology, which will require you to enter a short sequence of numbers and letters after you post in order to verify you’re human. At 80 spam posts an hour, regretably it was something we had to do.:

Posted in Site News.

Comments Issue Now Fixed

Published by admin on February 11, 2011. 0 Comments

The issue with the CAPTCHA plugin has been fixed.  It has been deactivated for now, but all users must register to comment.  This will help reduce the volumes of SPAM comments that btvn receives.  Thank you for your patience during this time, and please feel free to use the Contact form if you spot any other errors.

If you attempt to register under a name that you use on the forums and it is already taken, please follow the directions to reset your password.  We are in the process of porting the forum users over to the WordPress interface, which will culminate in the entire forum being moved over to this website rather than be hosted on an independent server.

Posted in Site News. Tags: , .

BTVN 4.0 STARTS THIS WEEK: SO PLEASE WELCOME STEPHEN AND JOEY!

Published by Max on January 9, 2011. 0 Comments

Hello All,

The time has come for me to say goodbye.

As of Monday, January 10th, I’ll be handing BTVN over to our new Managing Editor, Stephen; you’ll see him on our boards under stephenbtvn. Also joining the team will be Stephen’s friend Joey (board handle: outsideofboston), who will act as News Editor and Moderator of the newly-formatted site, which they’ll be bringing to you very soon. I will now be posting as just another member under MaxBTVN, except under emergencies if someone posts something so horrific that we could be sued or arrested for it, in which case you might see the BTVNadmin name pop up again on the boards. Stephen has very graciously offered me an informal position as a visiting contributor, but how (or even whether) that will take shape, I cannot yet officially say.

It’s been my immense pleasure and privilege to share these last eight years of Boston TV News with you, and I look forward to continuing to be a member of the BTVN community.

Please make Stephen and Joey feel welcome, and most importantly, please do what you can to help them make the new incarnation of the site a tremendous success!

It’s been fun – thanks,

Max

Posted in Site News. Tags: , , , , , , , .

Special Emmy Podcast with Tim Estiloz

Published by admin on April 15, 2009. 0 Comments

Due to unforseen circumstances (catastrophic technical failure at BTVN HQ), we regret to announce that our planned feature with Tim Estiloz has had to be indefinitely postponed, but we hope to have him back after the ceremony itself. To see a full list of nominees, please click on the link below.

Full list here

Posted in Site News. Tags: , .

Attention!

Published by admin on February 10, 2009. 0 Comments

THE ALL-NEW BTVN IS NOW LIVE!

THIS SITE IS NO LONGER FULLY-FUNCTIONING, SO PLEASE HIT THE LINK ABOVE TO GET WHERE YOU NEED TO BE

ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS: admin@btvn.net

SIDE-NOTE: IT HAS COME TO OUR ATTENTION THAT SOMEONE HAS CREATED A GROUP ON YAHOO, TITLED “BTVN”. THIS IS NOT THE REAL BTVN. THE REAL BTVN IS AVAILABLE AT: WWW.BTVN.NET; THE BOARDS AT WWW.BOARDS.BTVN.NET. SORRY FOR ANY CONFUSION.

Posted in Site News.

Welcome to the All-New BTVN!

Published by Max on January 4, 2009. 0 Comments

Hi, I’m Max Preston, and as you might have guessed, that’s my picture over there! Anyway, welcome to the All-New BTVN.net!

My colleague Rob Mignogna has asked me to throw together our new look, and as you might imagine, it’s something of a work-in-progress. The board is now a separate entity, but there’s a big fat link on the front page which will always be available, and can be found at the easy new address of boards.btvn.net

We also have a new “Clips, etc” area, where the other staff and I will post the curios we come across on YouTube, plus any multimedia stuff that might relate to breaking news.

There’s also a new contact form where you can submit any tips, comments or questions you may have, which will be sent to our easy-to-remember new e-mail address: admin@btvn.net

Finally, as you may know, I spend most of my time in the UK these days, and we’re still a man down on staff, something which will be all the more essential to resolve in the months to come. If you’d like to be involved (it’s pretty damn cool!), then our only requirements are that you’re 16 or over and have no potential conflict of interest with any of the local stations – just drop a note in the contact box telling us why you’d like to do it, and we’ll get back to you ASAP.

Thanks for staying with BTVN – now going strong for nearly eight years – and please enjoy our rather lovely new look!

Posted in Site News. Tags: .

Thank you BTVN!

Published by admin on August 30, 2008. 0 Comments

WITH SOME HELP FROM HIS BTVN FRIENDS, MAX HAS REACHED HIS FUNDRAISING TARGET AND NOW HAS HIS NEW CHAIR!

Posted in Site News. Tags: , .

BTVN Needs You!

Published by admin on March 3, 2007. 0 Comments

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE BTVN’S NEW SENIOR CONTRIBUTOR?

IF SO, CLICK TO FIND OUT MORE

Posted in Site News.

Breaking Sports News

Published by admin on February 3, 2005. 0 Comments

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS WIN THIRD SUPER BOWL IN FOUR YEARS, CEMENTING “DYNASTY” STATUS

RELAUNCHING AS BTVN.NET VERY SOON!

TO LAUNCH THE NEW SITE, WHDH’S CATERINA BANDINI AND RANDY PRICE HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THEIR FIRST JOINT INTERVIEW EVER – IN AUDIO – RUNNING OVER 30 MINUTES AND RECORDED LIVE AT 7 NEWS HQ – ONLY FOR BTVN!

Posted in Boston, Breaking News, btvn Exclusives, Site News, Uncategorized and WHDH (7NBC). Tags: , , , , , .

Max Preston on WUNH

Published by admin on October 21, 2004. 0 Comments

HEAR BTVN MANAGING EDITOR MAX PRESTON HOSTING SHOWS ON 91.3FM WUNH IN NORTHERN MASS AND SOUTHERN NH ON 91.3FM OR LISTEN LIVE ONLINE BY CLICKING HERE THEN CLICKING “OPEN” WHEN PROMPTED! Next Shows: Fri. 10/22 3pm

Posted in Site News. Tags: , .