GrassRoots Television is contracted to film and air local government meetings. The three governments that are involved include: City of Aspen, Pitkin County, and Town of Snowmass Village. These government meetings are aired on GrassRoots TVs partner station, CGTV (Community Government Television) on Comcast Cable channel 11.
CGTV has been on Comcast Cable channel 11 since 2005. Previous to 2005 the government meetings would air on GrassRoots TV channel 12. The meetings were taking up too much air time on GrassRoots and the decision was made to spin off the government meetings onto their own channel. CGTV was born. CGTV is strictly government/community related programming. Despite what you might think, the channel is more than meetings. Each government creates programs about topics and events that are happening around the community. These shows air in between the weekly meetings.
These informative programs are useful for everyone in the Roaring Fork Valley. Currently there is a lot of programming about wildfires, wildfire prevention, and wildfire mitigation. Pikin County has a plethora of great programs, including shows about the Airport Master Plan, a weekly road construction report, the Crystal River, and a program about the Pitkin County Sheriffs Dept. City of Aspen has programs on Aspen City Parks and Open Space, fraud prevention, and sexual violence prevention. Town of Snowmass Village has a program about the new businesses around Snowmass.
If you are flipping through the channels, be sure to stop at CGTV Channel 11 and watch what we are all about. You might learn something about your local community. Of course we will be airing almost all public meetings if you couldn't make it to the meeting, watch it on CGTV.
