Ithaca College Television
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Ithaca College Television (ICTV) provides original, student-produced programming to approx. 26,000 householdshttp://www.ictv.org/sections/about/about.php subscribing to Time Warner
Cable in Tompkins County, New York
.http://www.ictv.org/sections/about/about.php Additionally, a live webcast and video-on-demand are available on the website. ICTV, currently broadcasting on Educational-access television channel 16, has operated from Ithaca College
on local cable TV since 1958 http://www.ictv.org/sections/about/about.php. Ithaca College Television is the world's oldest student-run TV station. ICTV has over 250 student volunteers, and produces hundreds of hours of content each semester. Since most of the county does not receive over-the-air television signals, ICTV was created to provide community-oriented public affairs and entertainment programming to the Ithaca-area cable audience. Productions make use of the television facilities at the Roy H. Park School of Communications, which include two television studios and a master control center that switches programs directly onto the cable channel.
The organization is a Student television station
operated with a full time general manager who oversees operations. Typically, 18-20 program units, some ongoing and some newly created, recruit cast and crew members at the beginning of the Fall and Spring semesters. Roughly 250-300 students volunteer each term http://www.ictv.org/sections/about/about.php. Most of them major in communications, but the organization is open to students in any major. ICTV's flagship program, Newswatch 16, has been in production under different names for over forty years. It is now a tri-weekly half-hour primetime newscast that has won numerous student journalism awards over the years, including a College Emmy http://www.ictv.org/sections/about/about.php. Newswatch 16 was recently awarded the 2009 National Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for Best All-Around Television Newscast http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=974.
One show that generated excitement outside of the Ithaca community was The Race, a reality series inspired by the hit CBS
show, The Amazing Race
. The Race won several awards and was recognized on various reality TV websites and blogs. It aired for two seasons in 2007. Based on the hit MTV
shows Laguna Beach and The Hills
, IVY was the most recent show to gain significant attention at ICTV. http://ictv.org/show/Ivy/ The new comedy was the first ICTV show to take place entirely at Cornell University
. Praised for its unique visual design and effective parody of reality TV-style shows, IVY became a major hit not only at Ithaca College
and Cornell University, but throughout the entire Ivy League
as well. After the first season premiered, Ivy was recognized on several blogs http://allthingspark.blogspot.com/2008/11/so-okwe-think-those-folks-on-other-hill.html http://www.collegeotr.com/cornell_university/ithaca_college_airs_laguna_beach-esque_show_starring_cornell_15195 http://blogs.kitschmag.com/watch/2008/11/23/eight-ways-to-embrace-your-cornell-caricature/ http://www.ivygateblog.com/2008/11/ithaca-colleges-cornell-impression-more-cornell-y-than-real-cornell/#more-4005 http://www.ivygateblog.com/2008/12/fake-cornell-returns-with-its-collar-popped-and-a-harvard-sized-chip-on-its-shoulder/ http://blogs.kitschmag.com/watch/2008/12/03/in-which-we-make-a-drinking-game-while-watching-ivy/ http://www.collegeotr.com/cornell_university/the_first_episode_of_laguna_beach_meets_cornell_is_here_15766 http://www.collegeotr.com/cornell_university/the_second_episode_of_laguna_beach_meets_cornell_is_here_16211 http://www.collegeotr.com/cornell_university/the_third_episode_of_laguna_beach_meets_cornell_is_here_16553, and even The Cornell Daily Sun
http://cornellsun.com/section/daze/content/2008/11/19/lights-camera-action-ithaca-college-tv-lampoons-cornell, which wrote an article about the show.
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
Cable in Tompkins County, New York
Tompkins County, New York
Tompkins County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, and comprises the whole of the Ithaca metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 101,564. The county seat is Ithaca, and the county is home to Cornell University, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community...
.http://www.ictv.org/sections/about/about.php Additionally, a live webcast and video-on-demand are available on the website. ICTV, currently broadcasting on Educational-access television channel 16, has operated from Ithaca College
Ithaca College
Ithaca College is a private college located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York. The school was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music. The college has a strong liberal arts core, but also offers several pre-professional programs and some graduate programs. The college is...
on local cable TV since 1958 http://www.ictv.org/sections/about/about.php. Ithaca College Television is the world's oldest student-run TV station. ICTV has over 250 student volunteers, and produces hundreds of hours of content each semester. Since most of the county does not receive over-the-air television signals, ICTV was created to provide community-oriented public affairs and entertainment programming to the Ithaca-area cable audience. Productions make use of the television facilities at the Roy H. Park School of Communications, which include two television studios and a master control center that switches programs directly onto the cable channel.
The organization is a Student television station
Student television station
A student television station is a television station run by university, high or middle school students that primarily airs school/university news and in many cases, student-produced soap operas, entertainment shows, and other programming....
operated with a full time general manager who oversees operations. Typically, 18-20 program units, some ongoing and some newly created, recruit cast and crew members at the beginning of the Fall and Spring semesters. Roughly 250-300 students volunteer each term http://www.ictv.org/sections/about/about.php. Most of them major in communications, but the organization is open to students in any major. ICTV's flagship program, Newswatch 16, has been in production under different names for over forty years. It is now a tri-weekly half-hour primetime newscast that has won numerous student journalism awards over the years, including a College Emmy http://www.ictv.org/sections/about/about.php. Newswatch 16 was recently awarded the 2009 National Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for Best All-Around Television Newscast http://www.spj.org/news.asp?REF=974.
One show that generated excitement outside of the Ithaca community was The Race, a reality series inspired by the hit CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
show, The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race
The Amazing Race is a reality television game show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the world in competition with other teams...
. The Race won several awards and was recognized on various reality TV websites and blogs. It aired for two seasons in 2007. Based on the hit MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
shows Laguna Beach and The Hills
The Hills
The Hills is a reality television series which originally aired on MTV from May 31, 2006 until July 13, 2010. The show uses a reality television format, following the personal lives of several young adults living in Los Angeles, California, but tends towards a narrative format more commonly found...
, IVY was the most recent show to gain significant attention at ICTV. http://ictv.org/show/Ivy/ The new comedy was the first ICTV show to take place entirely at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
. Praised for its unique visual design and effective parody of reality TV-style shows, IVY became a major hit not only at Ithaca College
Ithaca College
Ithaca College is a private college located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York. The school was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music. The college has a strong liberal arts core, but also offers several pre-professional programs and some graduate programs. The college is...
and Cornell University, but throughout the entire Ivy League
Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group...
as well. After the first season premiered, Ivy was recognized on several blogs http://allthingspark.blogspot.com/2008/11/so-okwe-think-those-folks-on-other-hill.html http://www.collegeotr.com/cornell_university/ithaca_college_airs_laguna_beach-esque_show_starring_cornell_15195 http://blogs.kitschmag.com/watch/2008/11/23/eight-ways-to-embrace-your-cornell-caricature/ http://www.ivygateblog.com/2008/11/ithaca-colleges-cornell-impression-more-cornell-y-than-real-cornell/#more-4005 http://www.ivygateblog.com/2008/12/fake-cornell-returns-with-its-collar-popped-and-a-harvard-sized-chip-on-its-shoulder/ http://blogs.kitschmag.com/watch/2008/12/03/in-which-we-make-a-drinking-game-while-watching-ivy/ http://www.collegeotr.com/cornell_university/the_first_episode_of_laguna_beach_meets_cornell_is_here_15766 http://www.collegeotr.com/cornell_university/the_second_episode_of_laguna_beach_meets_cornell_is_here_16211 http://www.collegeotr.com/cornell_university/the_third_episode_of_laguna_beach_meets_cornell_is_here_16553, and even The Cornell Daily Sun
The Cornell Daily Sun
The Cornell Daily Sun is an independent daily newspaper published in Ithaca, New York by students at Cornell University. It is the oldest independent college daily in the United States....
http://cornellsun.com/section/daze/content/2008/11/19/lights-camera-action-ithaca-college-tv-lampoons-cornell, which wrote an article about the show.
Current Shows
- A Book By Its Cover - A dark comedy about a girl and her fellow students who get wrapped up in a series of accidental murders.
- Bombers Basketball - A live remote truck production covering IC Bombers basketball games during weekdays and weekends. It covers both Men’s and Women’s home basketball games live from the gym at the Hill Center, complete with four cameras and instant replay capabilities. So far, Time Warner Sports has re-aired the games in the Syracuse market, which is a huge step for ICTV and the Park School of Communications. Bomber's Basketball was present for Stephanie Cleary's record breaking game as well as Coach Dan Raymond's 100th career victory.
- The Big Red Faceoff - is solely devoted to Cornell Men's Ice Hockey.
- Down With ASP - A show that airs student projects from the Advanced Studio Production class, including demonstration programs, game shows and musical performances.
- DP Show - a sketch comedy show with raw humor
- E16 - ICTV's very own entertainment-industry news show
- Experts Say - ICTV's own public affairs and debate show. Featuring student, faculty, and commuity panelists, Experts Say digs into topics of local, national, and regional importance.
- Fake Out - Fake Out is ICTV's longest-running game show. There are four rounds of play, featuring an object, location, sound, and a trivia question. The panel of liars tells the contestants a story about each round, and it's the contestant's job to figure out which one of our liars is actually telling the truth. Contestants wager points, and win them if they are correct, and lose them if they are wrong. The contestants with the most points at the end of the game is the winner.
- Following Serling - A group of students, during what was supposed to be a normal day of class, find it cancelled after their professor appears to leave school sick. However, they curiously follow him and in the process stumble upon the old office of Rod Serling during his tenure at Ithaca College. What follows is an adventure of the unknown akin to "The Twilight Zone."
- Food Fight Face-Off - An exciting field shot competitive cooking show. Student "chefs" compete weekly to produce a meal that guest judges like best.
- Frequency - An alternative music video program. Featuring both new and old music videos by established and emerging artists, this show highlights bands that would otherwise receive little to no airplay on mainstream video outlets.
- Game Over - ICTVs only video game review show. It breaks the latest industry news, reviews the hottest new releases, previews much anticipated upcoming games, and puts their own spin on the gaming world with segments like Top 5 and Match Up. Arcade Fire and Vampire Weekend.
- Hold That Thought - a deeper look into what's going on in the sports world nationally and locally
- Ithacan Inquirer - A political satire show styled after The Colbert Report and The Daily Show. Host Greg Thompson works every week to strive for a resurgence in the conservative right and explore the numerous ways that liberals brainwash Ithaca, and America.
- IVY - A reality TV-styled show that documents and follows the lives of ten Cornell University and Harvard University students as they brave the Ivy League world and all the challenges it throws in their paths.
- NewsWatch 16 - ICTVs Emmy award-winning tri-weekly live newscast, featuring thorough, up-to-the-minute coverage of what is happening in Tompkins County, New York State, and all around the globe. The NewsWatch Weather Center brings Tompkins County residents their most trusted weather forecasts, and Sports Final covers all the scores and highlights. NewsWatch 16 is proud to cater to the community of Ithaca and its surrounding towns as the only truly local newscast in Tompkins County.
- Now Hear This! - ICTVs new news magazine show. This show covers community issues throughout Tompkins County. It also features business and entertainment segments, a question of the week, and a guest editorial piece.
- Quabble - Styled after Whose Line Is It Anyway? Quabble is an improv-comedy sketch show that features some of the finest improvisational comedians that Ithaca College has to offer. The actors participate in ridiculous improv games
- reVIEW - A magazine-style news show covering everything from local issues in Tompkins County to international topics of debate
- Say What! - A brand-new, high octane game show which pits three contestants in a karaoke battle with only one, coming out the winner. Each contestant is judged after each round with the lowest score being eliminated.
- The Screening Room - ICTVs long-running movie review show. Each week, two reviewers critique and give their grades to recently released Hollywood films. It also brings the latest box office figures, a weekly movie quiz and a preview of the movies premiering each week. In each episode the reviewers also share their 'DVD Picks of the Week,' which are recently released DVDs
- Sports Final - Sports Final features an action-packed half hour of highlights, postgame, analysis and commentary on all of Tompkins County sports teams, which feature games and athletes from Ithaca College, Cornell University and all the local high schools; Dryden, Groton, Ithaca, Lansing, Newfield, and Trumansburg.
- Suiteness - Suiteness revolves around six suitemates with completely different personalities. It documents, mockumentary style, their interactions with each other.
- This Week Tonight - Since it debuted in 2006, "This Week Tonight" is ICTV's longest-running active fake news show.