[WXBH-Discuss] FCC Briefing on Tuesday. All programmers should attend

[radical eclectic]

Thanks for your response... I do believe that the relevance of what I said despite its emotional tone of continued strain due to properly managing this organization needs to be aired properly with the appropriate people and if they are not at board meetings or hold radio meetings at times when I can attend then things like this occur.
   
  I have been a long time supporter and active proponent for the radio program and feel that these concerns should be addressed... this meeting has been held during assembly at least once before and thus is clearly not an oversight.  It is hard for me to see where I have gone wrong in my logic or understanding when all is said and done... Programmers are being asked to make a choice that is simply not a beneficial one for our organization.

John Hicks <johnlist at gulfbridge.net> wrote:
  Kristin -

I am sorry that you are insulted and offended. I believe you are 
overreacting, however.

radical eclectic wrote:
> I think its absolutely ridiculous that this meeting is planned at this time on this day... this is the exact day when any and all collectives are needed to assemble at the Brick House to organize the operations and finances of the organization at large.
> 
Kristin is referring to the fact that the Brick House holds its weekly 
assembly every Tuesday evening at 6:30, the precise time of this 
briefing. Anyone is free to attend an assembly and each group (or 
collective) operating out of the Brick House is supposed to send a 
representative. Moreover, the weekly assembly is where you would expect 
to find the current leaders of the Brick House. Since several of the 
current leaders (e.g. Brent, Kristin, Dave Morrison) have also expressed 
a desire to participate in the radio project, the scheduling of both 
meetings at the same time is unfortunate. 
> It is insulting to have radio planners move meetings off site and furthermore directly ignore their responsibilities as 'leaders and directors' of our organization in order to plan for a radio station which offers no outreach at our events nor provides adequate access to facilities when we have all the equiptment ready to be set up and used within our own building.
> 
Kristin is combining several point into one sentence here:
- The meeting is not at the Brick House (but it is at a central location 
where many of our training sessions have already been held. It was not 
"moved" off site.)
- Radio has not been promoting itself at Brick House events (although 
Radio has not been promoting itself at any events).
- Radio doesn't yet have a central studio (accessible to all 
programmers) when there is space and some equipment at the Brick House 
reserved for such a studio.
- She is insulted by all this. (The meeting has been planned for at 
least a month. No insult was intended.)
> 
> Furthermore this low power FM 'opportunity' is situated geographically where only 7% of our community can even access our output because there has been little to no work done on to secure online streaming of even the basic original and local content provided by programmers thus far. 
Our plans are (and always have been) to stream the entire WXBH 
broadcast. It's quite possible we'll be streaming before we're on the air.
> I would like to be a programmer and participant in this project which I helped run for years but instead I have had to shoulder the burden of securing the life and administrative details for the entire organization as a result of such intentional divisive planning of events when this need not be the case at all. This is purely offensive.
> 
Kristin has indeed been a workhorse for the Brick House. We might not 
have made it through the past year or two were it not for her 
determination. Indeed her tendency toward hyperbole, evidenced in this 
post, probably got us through many a crisis. It's unfortunate she is 
overreacting here, but it is understandable that, like all good 
volunteers, she feels a sense of ownership in her creation.
> 
> Kristin Shelor
> Member of Board of Directors 
> Funds Administrator
> Volunteer Coordinator
> Site Capacitor 
> Activities Facilitator
> 

- John Hicks
Chief Referee

> 
> 
>
> WXBH wrote:
> A quick reminder to all who plan on being a programmer and/or producer 
> for WXBH:
>
> Who: All programmers and/or producers for WXBH
>
> What: WXBH Programmers Agreement/FCC Reg Briefing
>
> When: Tues, May 15th, 6:30 p.m.
>
> Where: New Directions Housing Corp, 1000 E. Liberty (at the tail end of 
> Liberty, between Wenzel and E Chestnut/Baxter).
>
> See you there!
>
> P.S. We're still on schedule to go on the air on June 1!!
>
> 


-- 
John Hicks

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