February 2006 Board Minutes

WCTV BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MINUTES
February 14, 2006

Call to Order - 11:02 am

Present: Willard Brown, Dave Burns, Ed Hoffman, Daryl Greene, Jerome Mahaffey, Eric Marsh, Ken Paust, Jeff Plasterer, Kim Poinsett, and Billy Porch. Staff: John Dalton, Stephanie Frame, Diane Lucas, and John Schuerman.

Approval of Minutes
The Board accepted the minutes of the January 10, 2005 meeting as mailed. Jeff Plasterer moved to accept the minutes, which were passed unanimously.

Treasurer’s Report
Treasurer Jeff Plasterer pointed out that this is a year-end financial report. The report shows that WCTV operated well within the budget for the year. Now that there is a full staff, there is a need to be aware of the budget in order to continue to operate in the black. Dave Burns moved, and Billy Porch 2nd to accept the financial report. The financial report was accepted.

Director’s Report
John Dalton introduced Stephanie Frame, the new Assistant Operations Director. Stephanie will spend 2-3 hours a day on the head-end operations and 5-6 hours a day on shoots and post-production work.
John Dalton also announced that Johnny Ross, one of our series contributors, passed away recently.
John announced that he hopes the “Friends” campaign letters will go out in the month of February. The list contains more than 500 names. These contacts are not “cold” contacts, but names of people who have had some sort of connection to WCTV in the past. He hopes to add a new brochure in with the mailing, and plans for some on-air promotion.
The Channel 21 lottery was successful with about 12 persons present for the drawing. There are just a few open slots on Saturday. On Friday nights, beginning in March, there are times for some short films and “WCTV By Request.”
Jerome Mahaffey and Tim Scales are preparing new shows. The Faces of IU East show will be returning. An arrangement is being made with KICKS 96 to air their news segments. There have been some program trade-outs with WTIU, Miami Valley Communications Council in Dayton, and Access Ft. Wayne. Viewfinder, formerly a print newsletter, will be a monthly video presentation of about 5 minutes or so.
Mark Linderman and Lena Drew have an interest in working on Spanish language shows and/or announcements.
Our web hosting agreement was up for renewal and we have made an arrangement with Summersault. We are trading a business membership for their web site support.
John Dalton spoke at IU East, Earlham and at an RHS class. He has been talking to the Art Museum and the Historic Museum about future projects.
WCTV will be open four Saturdays during the next two months. The studio will be open from 9:00-5:00 on March 11th and 25th, and April 8th and 22nd.

Old Business
Dave Burns made a ‘House Call” last week and felt that it was very successful.

New Business
Ken Paust would like to see us find a way to communicate all the enthusiasm and activity that is going on at WCTV. John Dalton reported that he has an email list of about 100 names and will continue to send out general updates.
Daryl Greene wondered if WCTV will be represented at the Home Show.
Dave Burns mentioned that an alternate source of revenue would be to do multi disk duplication.

Good of the Order
Kim Poinsette again welcomed Stephanie Frame to WCTV. Daryl Greene noted that WCTV has a lot of momentum at this tine.

Meeting adjourned by Kim Poinsett.
Adjourn - 12:10