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URTV-20 URTV BOARD DECISION UNPOPULAR WITH MEMBERS ... URTV Member/Producer Rainer Doost Questions URTV Board Decision to Remove Kurt Mann "I yet have to meet a member who is not pleased with the URTV team and especially Kurt." Follows, with permission, is the full text of Rainer Doost's pubic input to the URTV Board of Directors during the September URTV Board meeting held at the URTV headquarters in Downtown Asheville. More> *** Rapid River Magazine Editorial Blasts URTV Board's Decision to Remove Former GM Kurt Mann"The URTV Board is dismantling the very thing that had been set in motion – a diverse public having a voice on local television ... URTV needs to rehire Kurt Mann." Follows, with permission, is the full text of the editorial which was published in the October 2006 issue of Rapid River Arts and Culture Magazine in the "Mountains of Art" column written by Byron Belzak. More> *** Previous News and Quotes About URTV ... when Kurt Mann was still General Manager: Congrat-UR-lations, URTV!What a wonderful Grand Opening. What a wonderful facility. What a wonderful staff. What a wonderful mission. You guys have done it. URTV channel 20 on Charter Cable is here! Access to the public! I never watch TV in the morning. This morning I did. I watched TV -- URTV, that is -- which is MY TV. It makes me proud to know that Asheville and Buncombe have a new voice for the rest of us with its new, wonderful public access communications hub. URjourney is OURjourney. Thank you for making the dream of a local public access television station become today's wonderful reality. Keep the flame of a better future for Asheville, Buncombe and Western North Carolina bURning bright. Again, congrat-UR-lations, URTV. Today, you have taken your first step. I know it is going to lead our community somewhere wonderful. -BB 8/1/2006 ***
Why? Those who become a member of URTV-Cable Channel 22 before April 21, 2006, which is 60 days prior to URTV's annual meeting on June 22, are entitled to vote on membership issues. Also, initial members may be nominated and elected to fill
So if you've been thinking about joining the first public access television station in Asheville and Western North, join now to ensure that you will be one of the first to be an active part of YOUR television station! For more information, visit: www.urtv.org.
-News provided by URTV, Inc., 31 College Place, Suite 20-A, Asheville, NC 28801
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WORK PARTY UPDATE; DIRECTIONS TO NEW MEDIA CENTER
Dear Members and Friends of URTV,
We have been receiving great support about painting and planting this Saturday from 1 - 5 pm. Thanks for all of your dynamite responses!
At this point we are still in need of: - a wheelbarrow,
Please contact me if you can help out with these items and feel free to bring any flowers, plants or mulch. Someone has already offered some blueberry bushes, so keep in mind that berries of any sort would be a fantastic bonus. Again, thank you for all your kindness and support. You have proven once
-See you Saturday.
Directions to New Media Center: dta6urtvworkupdatebb
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New Public Access TV-20 Media Center Work Party this Saturday We are in our beautiful new facility and we need your help planting and painting this Saturday, March 11th from 1-5pm! URTV is a community media center and we want to provide a space that is welcoming, professional and fun. If you would like to participate, email Jen Mass (Jen@urtv.org) our new Program Director, and let her know that you plan to plant or paint. We look forward to seeing you and thanks for helping URTV as we get closer and closer to being on the air!
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*** New Public Access Television Hires General Manager, Local Producers Encouraged to Participate
"My passion is storytelling through video. I find great value and satisfaction in teaching people how to tell their story and providing an environment in which their creativity can flourish." -Kurt Mann
Though the preparations to be made for the grand opening of URTV's media center in 2006 are substantial, Mann reminds enthusiastic, local producers and organizations, "It's not too
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