Saturday, September 27, 2014

WinCAM's new Policies and Procedures

I currently have 6 memberships at different access TV stations. This letter dated September 23, 2014 (which I received on or about the 25th) tells members that WinCAM is not allowing members from other cities, but the letter does NOT mention that if you have a business in Winchester you can still be a member. Membership retention is one of the key goals of any club, or organization that encourages membership. The members run a station. The Board of Directors allegedly put "term limits" of 10 years in effect. Term limits should be 3 or 4 years, not a decade, and those board members in for a decade want another decade. These types of policies fly in the face of Public Access and the PRIVATE Access that was Medford was taken apart in a very public and very embarrassing way. I am staying at WinCAM (unless they come up with another rule to keep people out, which would be very able to see as a ruse and could be just the thing to POSSIBLY have the board members engaging in this kind of behavior removed.) What kind of business takes someone's money in August (as they did to a friend of mine) and then in September sends them a letter that they aren't welcome anymore? Unbelievable.