In celebration of their recently-completed website, Colorado Mesa University’s CMU-TV threw a launch party, open to students and faculty. Kicking off on Friday, Oct. 18, proceeds from the event directly benefited the Roice-Hurst Humane Society.
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Featuring raffle prizes, kittens and karaoke, the launch party provided food and Palisade Brewery provided beer. Tickets sold out.
“It was a lot of work, lots of planning in advance, trying to go out and find businesses [to sponsor] prizes,” Station Manager/Programmer Jerry Peralta said.
Prizes for the raffle featured coupons for local businesses, with the crown jewel being a $300 tattoo from Justin Nordine (whose work can be viewed here) at the Raw Canvas.
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“Now instead of having to go to YouTube, you can go to our website to see our videos, learn about content producers and their positions here and [see] a bunch of cool stuff on there,” Content Producer Justin Platt said.
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“Looks like everybody’s having a good time, we’ve had a couple [people doing karaoke], we’ve had some prizes given away, we’ve got kittens in the back,” CMU-TV General Manager Quaid Hamilton said at the event.
About the kittens. Editor-in-Chief of Horizon Magazine Jenna Kretschman has been helping trying to get them adopted.
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“I have [. . .] foster kittens here, because the proceeds of this party go to the Roice-Hurst Humane society, so I’m showing people where their money’s going,” Kretschman said. “These are the kittens that I found living inside of the concrete ramp at Lowell Heiny [Hall] a few weeks ago, and they’ll be ready for adoption in about a month or so.”
CMU-TV’s website can be visited here.
