WinCAM BOYCOTT LETTER GOING OUT TO BUSINESSES

Dear Winchester Business:

We are asking residents, civic groups and businesses to BOYCOTT the Winchester Public Access television station, Winchester Community Access and Media, a.k.a. WinCAM.

Current station manager / executive director David Gauthier is not honest with the public about the station.  It has been a merry-go-round of hires and fires, with an entrenched board of directors that have made the station their own “private” access station, in violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the requirement that Public access stations be open to the public.

Complaints of sexual harassment have been alleged and brought to the attention of the Selectmen, Town Manager Richard Howard, Winchester High School (where the alleged behavior happened) and the police.   In 2010 two former employees sued the station while Attorney Melodie A. Wing took control as president of the station.  Gay et. al. vs Winchester Community Access and Media et. al
CIVIL DOCKET #MICV2010-04760    There was also an application for criminal complaint filed.

Membership retention is not addressed by the station. E.D. Gauthier gives out percentages instead of hard numbers on memberships lost and memberships gained – along with the key point – certification of members in computer classes and hard Winchester programming developed by members and preserved.

Programming has been erased; members and ex staffers abused, and the hostile environment created by David Gauthier, Melodie Wing, Allan Eyden (on the board since 2000, where are the term limits?) Peter Pongratz, 2 additional male staffers and an ex male staffer, demands those individuals be removed before we lift the boycott.

WinCAM is YOUR community resource. Why should some individual from Salem, Massachusetts be running around yelling WinCAM is for Winchester when he doesn’t give a damn about this community.

Contact the Selectmen and Town Manager if you have a grievance about the 501c3 non-profit, WinCAM.