The Charlottesville Podcasting Network was created twenty years ago this month. I’m Sean Tubbs, the person who launched the site. These days I’m the president of Town Crier Productions and this website is now under that umbrella.
My other platforms at the moment are Charlottesville Community Engagement and Information Charlottesville. The former is a newsletter sent out through Substack. The second is a website I created as an archive for whatever I wrote during a period when I wasn’t a working journalist.
This website was created as a way for me to experiment with podcasting. At the time I was a freelance radio producer and saw the new distribution technology as a way for me to potentially make additional money.
Now I make my living because there are a lot of people who want me to keep writing. There are ways that brings in revenue. The profession I am in has always been supported through multiple sources of revenue.
I took another job at another organization in April 2007 because I had responsibilities. I was no longer in charge and could not devote much attention to this website anymore. I handed it over to a couple of other caretakers, and one of them retired a few years ago.
Since then, I’ve posted a few things, but not on a regular basis. This is definitely a website on hiatus, much like Fifth District Community Engagement and Charlottesville Quarantine Report. The latter was something that sprang forth from me in the early days of the COVID19 pandemic.
I do not know what the future of this website will be, but I do know I will be revisiting the work of 20 years ago as I experimented with using audio to tell longer stories in different configurations then I could get on the radio. For most of my time at Charlottesville Tomorrow, I did not do much with audio except for posting entire files of the meetings I covered.
And that’s what the audio is for this post. This is from a meeting in April 2010 of those members of Charlottesville City Council who were on the elected body back in the 1970’s when the decision was made to convert East Main Street into a pedestrian mall. You can read the story over at Charlottesville Tomorrow. This audio is available there as well.
I’m uploading it here because it’s a Saturday and those are usually the days I organize things because I try not to have a deadline. I’m cleaning up files and this was one I came across that I downloaded at some point intending to cut it up into soundbites.
Maybe I’ll do that one day, but organization involves archiving and connecting the present with the past in hopes of having both stick around into the future.
UPDATE: I recognize the audio is not uploading and I’m not sure how to fix it. I am going to put it down for now and come back to it as this is a day of organization. I will seek help.