URTV, RIP

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   Davyne Dial June 17, 2011

   Meh…there's plenty of other ways to be heard these days.

   If something does emerge based on the stated funding, it'll not be bait for traveling grifters who are just in it for the unfettered access to money and getting their rocks of with gross abuse of authority.

   Go back to your rented trailer in Liecester and stay there…it's over Mr. Vice President.

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   Point of View June 16, 2011

   OBSERVATION: URTV / WNC Community Media Center was destroyed by political gamesmanship! Those who attacked the station's board of directors were clueless uninformed megalomaniacs who had a disingenuous hidden agenda to destroy public access TV for Asheville Buncombe County.

   Anyone with half-a-brain can see there is no-way to run a public access TV cable channel from the new funding being offered by the County and City. It's a joke and they know it. You've just been had by a ponzi-scheme to disenfranchise you of 1st amendment rights to freedom of expression for a public access cable TV channel in our community.

   You will never see public access TV in this community again – for your local government wants total control and oversight of your freedom of expression – keeping the media filters in place to keep you from being heard directly by your fellow citizens on issues of possible interest to the community.

   Oh, and by the way, where are those idiots in the community who said they could do it better? You know the bunch of spineless weenies that bitched and moaned from their TV loungers. It takes an enlightened intelligent person to make accusations who backs them up with verifiable facts from sources who don't have a follow-me lap-dog in a rigged game. We as citizens have been played to the demise of our 1st amendment platform for the citizens of Asheville Buncombe County to speak among ourselves ppenly and freely!

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   Champ June 9, 2011

   So glad there is no more public $ being wasted on that rubbish. Animal Farm exemplified.

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   Scooter June 3, 2011

   URTV sucked.

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   Dixiegirlz June 3, 2011

   Many of us felt from the beginning this valuable asset was set up to fail. You could easily sense the short sightedness of decisions clamping down on any future well being. To verify what I'm saying, go back and read the minutes from 2006, to what they've thinly veiled as minutes through 2010. Those of us who loudly dissented and tried to do the right thing by the public, were quickly demonized and removed from the Board. It is no accident that the most vocal opponent of public access placed them selves in the position to finally become the ***Board Chairman*** and oversee the demise. See reprint of original comment below.

   The operators of URTV, (Board of Directors and ED) played right into the the hands of officials lusting after the funds, by gross mismanagement.

   The public trust was betrayed all around.

   ***"I understand that we live in a diverse community today. But why do we need to allow diversity that is foreign to us?"
   — Pastor Jerry Young, Trinity Baptist Church***

   http://noturtv.blogspot.com/2011/03/buncombe-county-commission.html

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   Dixiegirlz June 2, 2011

   Given the findings in the link below…the City & County would have been participating in a squandering of the public trust had they continued doing business with the present management at URTV. It's pathetic how the bobble heads keep attempting to smokescreen the lack of responsibility of the Board of Directors (Mr Roberts included) and the management/staff at URTV. Holly Jones nailed it when she stated URTV's management model is a failure. When you've turned the most progressive elected official in the community against you, you've burned a bridge, big time. Meantime while URTV was in it's death throes, where was the Executive Director and the Bord President?

   http://www.citizen-times.com/assets/pdf/B0172992413.PDF

   Here's hoping a new entity comes forward with a viable plan for the City and County to consider.

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