[Peace-discuss] Democracy Now on UPTV ???

[Jenifer Cartwright]

I'm happy to make an infu$ion. Please keep us posted on what's due when.
 --Jenifer

--- On Mon, 9/15/08, Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Democracy Now on UPTV ???
To: "peace discuss" <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Monday, September 15, 2008, 2:13 PM

Folks, 

If you recall, some of us pushed really hard to get Democracy Now! on Urbana
Public Television, over the objections of the then-mayor of Urbana Tod
Satterthwaite.  There was a public showdown at a City Council meeting, and
Council members voted to direct the Administration to put the show on.  Randall
Cotton was the spearhead of that effort, but many people contributed.

As a result UPTV got a new service, Dish Network, which they have been using
for other programming, too.  AWARE kicked in the first year's fee for that
service.  The last two years no one has asked us for a penny.  At the time, UPTV
staff - Chris - said UPTV might pick up the tab if the service proved useful
enuf.

Now there is new staff at UPTV, and recently they say they have received at
least 2 automated messages from the Dish Network people saying the bill
hasn't been paid and the service will be canceled if it isn't.  I got
the email about it because I am the officially the sponsor (has to be an Urbana
resident) of DN! on UPTV.

I spoke to Randall and Durl, as AWARE's UPTV experts, and paid a visit to
UPTV to let them know I have never paid this bill, nor has any of us for the
last 2 years, we've never been asked before, and what's up?  Basically,
they don't know, but they are checking into it.  UPTV by regulation
can't pay for programming that we sponsor, but they tell me they could
possibly pick up some of the bill due to the programming they do get from Dish
Network - it fulfills their education requirement or something.

The long and the short is, we may have to cough up some cash if we want DN! to
stay on TV here.  Presumably the easiest way to do this would be to simply take
donations.  At this time i do not know how much money we are talking - or when
we'd have to pay.  This is just a heads up, and a who's in?

So ...

Who's in?

 Ricky


"Only those who do nothing make no mistakes." - Peter Kropotkin



      
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