Ithaca College Television
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| Ithaca, New York | |
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| Branding | ICTV |
| Slogan | your choice. your channel. |
| Channels |
Analog: 16 (TW Cable) Digital: 97-2 (TW Cable) |
| Affiliations | None |
| Owner | Ithaca College |
| Founded | March 3rd, 1958 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Ithaca College TeleVision |
| Former callsigns | WICB-TV (1958-86) ICB-TV (1986-92) |
| Website | www.ictv.org |
Ithaca College Television (ICTV) is Ithaca College's student television channel. Founded in 1958 as the first student-run cable television station, ICTV provides original, student-produced programming to approximately 26,000 households in Tompkins County, New York [1] through Time Warner Cable [2]. Additionally, ICTV offers a livestream of its programming on its website, ICTV.org, along with on-demand episodes from past and present shows.
ICTV cablecasts on Time Warner local educational access on channel 16 (Analog) and channel 97-2 (Digital). The channel programs twelve-week seasons during the fall and spring semesters, Sundays through Thursdays from 6:30pm-11pm. When ICTV is not broadcasting original content, a live view of Cayuga Lake is transmitted and VIC Radio is played.
Ithaca College Television was created to provide community-oriented public affairs and entertainment programming to the Ithaca-area cable audience. Since almost all programming on ICTV is student-initiated, any semester’s productions depend upon the interests of the active participants. Currently, ICTV has five branches of programming - News, Sports, Entertainment, Original Series, and Podcasts. Re-introduced to ICTV in Spring 2014, Special Projects focuses on bringing live and non-traditional programming to ICTV. Projects include event coverage, student films, and extended sports and news packages. ICTV Shorts can now be found under Original Series. Though it varies from semester to semester, each ICTV semester features between 15 and 20 productions and over 400 participants.
ICTV is a student television station led by a thirteen-person Executive Staff managed by the Station Manager. Executive Staff positions include Director of Programming, Director of Development, Director of Technical Operations, Associate Director of Technical Operations, Digital Media Manager, Director of Web Development, Director of On-Air Promotions, Director of Publicity, Master Control Supervisor, News Director, Sports Director, and Entertainment Director. ICTV also has two faculty advisors - Chris Wheatley, Ithaca College's Manager of TV and Radio Operations, and Paul Stanion, Studio Manager.
All ICTV programs are student-led, with two or three producers per show. Each production team consists of 15 to 40 students.
At the start of the Fall and Spring semesters, ICTV holds a "Recruitment Night" to kick off each new ICTV season (which lasts for a semester). Students are briefly introduced to the productions for the upcoming semester through a video created by the ICTV Executive Staff. After getting an idea of which shows most interest them, students are free to explore their options and talk with current producers and sign up for as many shows as desired. ICTV's twelve-week season begins a few weeks after Recruitment Night and ends during the last week of classes.
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