Plans are still moving forward to get Raymond Walters College’s first campus television station up and running. During the past few months, Media Services Center students and volunteers assembled racks and installed the equipment necessary to run the main control center, located in Muntz 113. The control room equipment will be used to broadcast pre-recorded programming for the college’s newly formed television station. Although the equipment is installed, the system connections have to be fine-tuned before shows can be broadcast.Founders also eagerly await the construction of a microwave tower that will transmit broadcasting signals to the Star 64 tower and eventually to the local cable and public access television stations. So students will be able to watch their own local college’s television programming. “Hopefully, the tower will be up soon,” commented Mike Sanders, Director of Media Services. The tower construction is delayed because special care must be made not to disrupt the flight patterns at the Blue Ash Airport.
“We are optimistic that the engineers will soon get over that hurdle and put us on the air live,” says Neil Sharrow, Media Resources Coordinator. For now, the pre-recorded programming will be delivered by hand to the broadcasting station.
Concepts for when the station finally broadcasts live to the Star 64 Tower are also being formed. One such series will highlight cultural awareness within the Cincinnati community. Last quarter, Electronic Media Technology’s Video Production I class gathered footage for a “Cultural Transmission” RWC-TV series premiere on South American Masks.
This program will be completed by the same class in Video Production II. Other programming ideas include an RWC news program, children’s programming, and other student-generated concepts. Plans are still being negotiated to show the programming on local public access cable stations such as Media Bridges and Waycross Community Television.