Downtown Asheville - CITY NEWS, INFO & EVENTS
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."
-Rainer Doost
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>
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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."
-Byron Belzak
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>
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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
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URTV-20 Public Access Television Now On the Air
July 31 Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting by Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy Videotaped.
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
member-designated seats on the URTV Board of Directors.
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,
- some form of railroad ties or something to make a raised bed
- gardening gloves
- watering containers
- any and all painting supplies
- a truck to load soil
- and most importantly, some SOIL
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
again how unique the members of our community really are!
-See you Saturday.
Jen Mass
Program Director, URTV inc
Directions to New Media Center:
Starting from downtown, Pack Square, at the intersection of Broadway and
Patton:
Take a slight right onto College Street.
Stay on College Street for .3 miles.
Take a left onto NC-694/Town Mountain Road.
Travel .1 mile and turn right onto College Place.
Travel .1 mile and turn right into the Asheville Office Park.
Look for brick bldg A
URTV, inc
31 College Place
Suite 20 A
Asheville, NC 28801
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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.
Warm weather is forecast for this Saturday, so it should be a
perfect day to dig holes, plant trees, build bulb beds, paint walls, doors and floors.
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.
If you have special tools that can dig holes for trees, or just a shovel, a pick or a hoe, let her know that as well. Paint brushes, rollers and drop clothes would be helpful too!
We look forward to seeing you and thanks for helping URTV as we get closer and closer to being on the air!
-News provided by Kurt Mann, General Manager
URTV Media Center
"Building Community One Story at a Time"
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New Public Access Television Hires General Manager, Local Producers Encouraged to Participate
URTV is pleased to announce that, following a national job search, Kurt Mann has been hired as General Manager of the organization. Mann has operated his own production company for the past 17 years and produced and directed hundreds of programs. A long-time Asheville resident, he has traveled to
more than thirty countries working on documentaries. Mann is also active in community economic development, public service, and the media arts.
His professional background, as well as his commitment to the WNC region, will prepare him well for work in public access television.
"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
Beginning in November, Mann will conduct workshops and meetings to engage community members, establish operating procedures, and oversee the renovation and design of URTV's facilities.
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
early to begin planning your program."
-News provided by URTV at www.urtv.org
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