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Posted on: January 22nd, 2012 No Comments

TV station joins student media, CMU-TV due to air first episode

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After MSC-TV was phased out last year, students with an interest in video and broadcast were left to depend on KMSA Video and their classes for video experience. Mass communication senior and campus videographer Sam Kilman visualized and implemented another option for students to learn and utilize skills in the field of broadcast.

Last semester, CMU-TV became an official campus club and a part of student media. Operations are due to begin this semester, with the first episode due to air on Saturday.

“CMU-TV will do everything to provide real-life experience,” Kilman said. “We will run off of the Internet, TV and will also be YouTube driven.”

CMU-TV will run a 15-minute newscast each week and will highlight campus news, sports, feature stories, politics, a weekly message from President Tim Foster and more. The newscast will not be broadcasted live and is planned to play on channel 3, an on-campus channel.

“We will be building more content than what airs on TV,” Kilman said. “We hope to build video to help any local organization or business and to help fund CMU-TV.”

CMU-TV plans to work with other student media to promote each other’s news and events, and to provide students with opportunities to work in the various areas of mass communication. CMU-TV will also work with the CMU Marketing Department to create video pertaining directly to the university.

“Practicum students will be able to do video,” Kilman said. “We’re also working with CMU to produce appropriate content regarding the university.”

Mass communication professors Greg Mikolai and Daniel Flenniken will advise the club. CMU-TV has already filled several administration and editor positions, but there will be no set anchors or reporters.

“Anchors and reporters are going to rotate, so there is no specific face of CMU-TV,” Kilman said.

CMU-TV is still looking for videographers, video editors, anchors, scriptwriters, reporters and web designers. Currently, none of the positions are paid, as CMU-TV is still looking to form their constitution in order to gain funding.

“I’m trying to go over every detail to make sure that after I graduate in May, it won’t fail like MSC-TV,” Kilman said.

For more information, or to apply, email Kilman at swkilman@gmail.com or join the Facebook group called “I’m interested in CMU-TV.” CMU-TV meets twice a week at 4 p.m. Saturdays in the broadcast studio and at 8 p.m. Wednesdays in the mass communications library on the third floor of the fine arts building.

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