Jason Sandford
Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.
Sewage in the stream?
Russ “Beefacake” Bowen went out to Madison County Thursday night for a public hearing at which some 300 people showed up to complain about plans to build a sewage treatment plant that would dump 300,000 gallons of treated wastewater in Puncheon Fork Creek. The treatment plant will serve a controversial new development of some 900 homes going up in the Laurel Valley.
Lots of folk in rural Madison don’t like the feel of big development. Hell, lots of folks all around WNC don’t like the feel of big development. But it’s happening.
So N.C. Division of Water Quality officials sat back and listened as the people with posters like “No Crap in the Creek” railed against the development. People said a clean mountain stream is the gold standard and shouldn’t be harmed. The developer said the treated wastewater is clean, and held up a jar of treated water next to a jar of creek water, and you couldn’t really see the difference.
The state water quality folks will make a decision at some point, Russ said, then folks gott live with it, or sue.
Racist flyers
WLOSers said somebody littered MLK Boulevard with racist flyers yesterday. The sheets of paper contained writing in which somebody said they were attacked by “black people” (they used another word) while leaving Bele Chere last weekend, so some black people are going to get attacked in return. WLOSers showed two female Ashvegas police offiers we’ve never seen before picking up the flyers.
Hot huskies
WLOSers said somebody left two huskies in a hot car. Somebody spotted the dogs and called the cops, but by the time an animal control officer got on the scene, somebody had let the dogs out. The dogs were taken to the animal shelter, and once the owners show up, they could be cited.
Clarification
In an extremely rare move, Larry “Smoka” Blunt read a long clarification at the 6 and 11 infotainment shows. The clarification was long and convoluted so we’re not gonna bother repeating it. But WLOSers make mistakes all the time and hardly ever run corrections or clarifications. Somebody must have really gotten on their asses.
Sales tax holiday
Back-to-school shoppers will hit stores today, Saturday and Sunday to buy supplies that are sales tax-free this weekend. Lots of people say the sale is great, and stores are stocking up big time, saying that this weekend is second only to Christmas for them. So watch out if you plan to hit Best Buy or Target or something this weekend – it’s likely to be packed.
Commercial
What is “My40”? We saw a commercial for a new station, WYMA, featuring Ashvegas firefighters and a couple of other people. They said the station is coming Sept. 5.
thanks for the all the WMYA info, dudes.
and Jamunca – yes! we saw that! we mention in a later post; thanks for noticing, too!
I loved how WLOS couldn’t make up its mind about whether or not to show the racial slur. During her live remotes, Michelle Boudin held up the paper which showed the offending word in plain view. When they went to taped footage, they blurred out the word except for an one interview in which I saw the word again. They then went to a taped "live" remote in which the word wasn’t censored at all, then back to video in which the was was censored.
It was all pretty funny. Just thought I’d mention it.
With the My Network TV broadcasting schedule being even smaller than the current WB schedule is, does that mean more paid ads are coming to MY 40? I hope not…
Actually, the networks merged, not the two stations. WBSC (owned by Sinclair/WLOS) and WASV (owned by Media General/WSPA) remain two separate stations.
WASV changes its call letters to WYCW and affiliates with the CW, the new merged network formerly comprised of the WB and UPN.
WBSC affiliates with MY Network TV and changes call letters to WMYA.
My40 is the new station formed after the WB and UPN merged.
It will have some shows returning from each network (Veronia Mars, Smallville) but not all of them.
Currently, the WB station is a sister station of WLOS and the UPN station is a sister station of WSPA.
Not sure if any jobs were lost locally in the merger. The UPN station broadcasts WSPA’s news at 10 p.m and during Monday night football last season WLOS’s late local news aired on the WB channel.
kaboom… rumble, rumble, rumble… I loves me some TV… suckas.
– WL –
MY40/WMYA is the new nickname/call letters for what was WAXA, which then became WFBC, which then became WBSC. It’s channel 40, which was (is still?) licensed to Anderson, SC. Anchor (or were they River City by then?) bought it back in the early 1990’s, changed the name to WFBC to try to capitalize on people who would confuse it with the old call letters of WYFF; they changed the call letters to WBSC when they affiliated it with the WB. Now they’re changing it again, since the WB is no more, and the station is affiliating with the new "My Network TV" network.