About CMTV

CMTV airs on Comcast channel 14 reaching over 100,000 homes in the Spokane area. The station was born in January 2007 when our parent company Community-Minded Enterprises took over as manager of the old Comcast public access channel. June 27th was the first time CMTV ever aired a community based program. From there we have trained numerous community producers and our programming is now 24 hours a day. We offer a new style of television where we provide the training and continued mentorship you need to shoot and edit your own stories, and to air these stories on channel 14. Our goal is to bring a new voice to television by providing programming that builds and strengthens the Spokane community.

CMTV Coordinating Committee

This committee is made of up community leaders here in the Inland Northwest. They have helped create the station into what it is today by setting policy and by acting as ambassadors for CMTV.

Currnent Board:

Dan Baumgarten - Executive Director, Community-Minded Enterprises
Robert Foote - General Manager, CMTV
Karen Boone - Community Producer
Kevin Finch - Pastor and Newspaper columnist
Lupito Flores - Manager, KYRS Community Radio Station
Christopher Kelly - Entrepreneur
Claude Kistler – General manager, KSPS Public Broadcasting TV
Jim Wavada - Washington Department of Ecology
Ian Robertson - Spokane Valley Council Member
Julie Graham - Public Information Officer, The Health District
John Hartung – Director, Kootenai Shoshone Area Libraries

Fundraising Committee

As a nonprofit CMTV is actively involved in raising money to fund the station so it can continue to serve its viewers and the Spokane community. With the exception of the general manager the fundraising committee is made up of non staff members.

Cable Advisory Board

The Cable Advisory Board is a group of representatives from the community appointed by the governing municipalities (City of Spokane, Spokane Valley, Spokane County and Liberty Lake). They act in the best interest for the community when Franchise Agreements need to be renegotiated between Comcast and the governing municipalities. They also act as liaison between CMTV and the City Councils..

Currnent Board:

John Delay

Marshall Farnell

Claude Kistler

Marlene Feist

Morgan Koudelka

Robert Beaumier Jr.

Jim Emacio

Sandy Krause

John Waite

Mike Allen

Robert Foote