Buckeye TV
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| Buckeye TV | |
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| Columbus, Ohio | |
| Branding | Buckeye TV |
| Slogan | Ohio State Student Television |
| Channels | 19 (CCTV - Cable) analog |
| Affiliations | Open Student Television Network |
| Owner | The Ohio State University |
| Founded | October 21, 2001 |
| Former affiliations | NLN Networks, Zilo TV |
| Website | buckitv.osu.edu |
Buckeye TV is the student television station of The Ohio State University. It was founded on October 21, 2001, as a student organization. The station is currently an academically-supported laboratory housed in the OSU Department of Theatre. The station produces original programming and content created by students, and serves as the broadcasting outlet for students interested in television and related careers.
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[edit] Station History
For most of its first year, the station held weekly planning meetings, Sundays at 9pm in Stecker Lounge. Four undergraduate students were initially involved in the station's planning process, including Frank Sasso, who served as the first General Manager, Dave Plantz, first Vice President of Programming, Jarrod Weiss, Vice President of Marketing, and Paul C. Forsgren, Chief Engineer. Support for the station was initially provided by Mr. William H. Hall, then-Vice President of Student Affairs at Ohio State, UNITS, the university's telecommunications department, and RHAC, the university's Residence Halls Advisory Council. These individuals and organizations provided facilities, equipment, and funding for the station. The station's first productions included a morning talk show pilot called "Wake The Buck Up", an interview program called "Campus Close Up", and a USG Presidential Debate aired Wednesday, April 17, 2002, as preview of what to expect from the station. That would be the only programming to air on the channel that year.
Due to logistical difficulties, the station delayed its 2002 fall launch until the new year. "BUCK-iTV" launched on-air on February 3, 2003, on UNITS cable channel 19. Launch shows included: "Buckeye News Update", "The Collin and Joe Show" (sketch comedy), "Kollege" (soap opera, now sitcom), "P.W.C. Explosion" (Local Wrestling), and "Straight Talk Live" (political / talk). The station has rebranded and changed its channel spelling twice since launch, switching to "BUCKITV" in the winter of 2004 and settling on "Buckeye TV" in 2005.
Today, Buckeye TV is focused on integrating itself into a proposed academic minor in Media Production and Analysis, and will serve as the laboratory element of the minor program. The future of the station will rely heavily on its ability to gain support from academic units and the university via strong enrollment in station academic courses and graduation of students from the minor program.
[edit] Station Management
Overall management and operational responsibility for the station is held by a full time employee, Dave Fisher, who serves as the Buckeye TV Coordinator. Dave began his duties in January of 2006, and splits his time between the station and teaching production courses in the OSU Department of Theatre, which is ultimately responsible for the station and its operations. Mr. Fisher is the first paid staff member at Ohio State to work with the student station on a full time, employed basis. Previously, Buckeye TV had been managed by a student President and General Manager from its founding on October 21, 2001, to March of 2006, when the last student General Manager finished his tenure.
Previous General Managers of Buckeye TV:
- Frank Sasso (co-founder) : 2001-2002
- David A. Plantz (co-founder) : 2002-2004
- Kelly Kinzer : 2004-2005
- Paul C. Forsgren (co-founder): 2005-2006
[edit] Executive Management
In addition to the program coordinator, daily operations at the station are supervised by seven Vice Presidents:
- Rachael Greve - Senior Vice President and Station Manager
- Vacant — Vice President of Programming and Executive Producer
- Vacant — Vice President of Sales and Development
- Vacant - Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations
- Vacant — Vice President of Business Operations
- Vacant — Vice President of Engineering
- Ken Hathaway - Vice President of Operations
[edit] Programming Management
Programming on Buckeye TV is produced by a variety of student members, and the daily production of programming is supervised by five Programming Directors:
- Michelle Pineiro - Director of News Programming
- Andrew Schwisow - Co-Director of Sports Programming
- Alysse Shaheen - Director of Music Programming
- Andy Martin - Director of Entertainment Programming
- Vacant - Director of Arts and Culture Programming
[edit] Operations and Production
The technical side of production is handled by the Division of Production, Department of Operations. Management of Production includes:
- Tim Kiss - Director of Production
The technical operations of Buckeye TV are continually improving, both on a personnel and equipment standpoint. At present time the station uses a variety of DV cameras for acquisition, including Panasonic AG-DVC15s, AG-DVC80s, and AG-DVC30s. Packages and shows are completed in post-production on two Avid Xpress Pro workstations. During the summer of 2006, the station built and equipped a new studio control room and expanded its production space, creating two distinct studios. The control room features an Ampex AVC-33 production switcher, a 30 input video switcher featuring 3 M/E busses, and luma/chroma keying capabilities. Additional control room equipment includes a Mackie CFX20 audio board, Telex intercom system, and various video monitors. The new production studios feature Sony MXC-3000 cameras and a teleprompter system on two of the three cameras.
[edit] Engineering Staff
The engineering department encompasses both traditional broadcast engineering as well as information technology. Buckeye TV works to integrate the two as much as possible, keeping the station of the forefront of the information technology revolution in broadcast television.
[edit] Programming
Buckeye TV produces original programming to fill its schedule. Current programming includes a weekly news journal, sports update, music interview / update show, sitcom, Sci-Fi drama, live sports broadcasts, and more. In addition to original station programming, Buckeye TV is a charter affiliate of OSTN, the Open Student Television Network, a national television network based of Cleveland, OH that is programmed with student-produced content submitted by member stations.
[edit] News
One of the first types of programming shown on Buckeye TV (then known as BUCK-iTV) in the spring of 2002 was a daily 2 minute news update. From these humble beginnings, Buckeye TV spawned a news department that quickly became the largest of all Buckeye TV departments, and they began to produce a daily 6pm newscast. After a variety of changes, a new weekly news magazine, Buckeye TV News Weekly, began production in the spring of 2005. Buckeye TV News Weekly remains the flagship production of Buckeye TV, and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future.
[edit] Sports
Buckeye TV has been actively pursuing sports programming since its inception, and will continue to seek out opportunities to produce high quality broadcasts of Ohio State sports. As national programming contracts preclude Buckeye TV from showing football or men's basketball games, the station has chosen to focus its efforts on both interview and analysis programming, as well as the production of some of the sports at OSU that are not as well known. In the spring of 2005, Buckeye TV rented a local production truck and produced a broadcast-grade OSU baseball game program to rave reviews. The station hopes to secure funding in the future to produce more programming of this nature. Current sports programming includes a basketball analysis show and The Sports Perspective, an analysis show that encompasses a variety of sports topics.
[edit] Entertainment
Most of the sitcom and feature programs on the station are produced by an affiliated production company, known as the OSU Film and Video society. OSU F&V produces programming for the station in exchange for airing of such programming on the channel, and the productions include a college-oriented sitcom, Kollege, as well as a sci-fi program, X3i, and various other specialty programming throughout the year. The station additionally produces a comedy call in show, known as Buckeye Backtalk, which has proven to be wildly popular with the local dormitory crowd the station primarily programs for. Buckeye Backtalk features three hosts, supplemented by regular guest hosts, who take phone calls, provide skits and preproduced segments, and "off the cuff" humor in a packaged format.
[edit] Music
Music is a division of programming at Buckeye TV, and the music division focuses their efforts on producing Music on Campus, a local artist interview show. Music on Campus features news and commentary on the world of pop music today, as well as interviews and performances by local groups and major bands that visit the Columbus, OH area. The department also works with local and national artists on showing music videos, as well as producing live musical segments for the MoC show on occasion.
[edit] Arts and Culture
Buckeye TV is working to start producing arts and culture programming, and will be focusing its efforts on performances by the School of Music as well as drama from the Department of Theater.
[edit] Academic Laboratory
Buckeye TV was originally founded as a student organization at Ohio State, based under the Division of Student Affairs. OSU soon found that operating a fully functional television station as a student organization was not economically viable, and sought out a "home" for the station under the Division of Academic Affairs. An agreement was reached with the Executive Dean of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences, School of Communication, and Department of Theatre to house the station under academic affairs, in the Department of Theatre. The station is set to be an integral part of a proposed interdisciplinary minor in Media Production and Analysis, soon to be offered at the university. The station thus has ceased to function as a student organization and is now a functional academic laboratory, similar in structure and organization to The Lantern, OSU's student newspaper and journalism laboratory.
[edit] Buckeye TV Alumni in TV, radio, film, and other media
- Anne Allred '04 - Reporter, WHDH-TV, Boston, MA
- Elizabeth Applegate '03 - Producer, KTNV-TV, Las Vegas, NV
- Dawn Brofman '05 - Reporter, KIMA-TV, Yakima-Pasco, WA
- Olivia Dangler '04 - Producer, KNXV-TV, Phoenix, AZ
- Nicole Denman '04 - Producer, WCMH-TV, Columbus, OH
- Eric Egan '04 - Reporter, WTEN-TV, Albany, NY
- Kelly Gilmartin '07- Reporter, WHIZ-TV, Zanesville, OH
- Steve Kaczynski '05 - Reporter, KNDO-TV, Yakima-Pasco, WA
- Colin Lawson '03 - Production, Mills James Productions, Columbus, OH
- Andy Long '06 - Photographer, WCMH-TV, Columbus, OH
- Dave Plantz '04 - Promotion Producer, WBNS-TV, Columbus, OH
- Andrew Roth '07 - Integration and Development Engineer, WBNS-TV, Columbus, OH
- Dhara Shah '04 - Anchor and Reporter, TV Asia, Newark, NJ
- Neil Sika '03 - Sports Announcer, WOSU-AM, Columbus, OH
- Leigh Ann Woodbury '04 - Anchor, WVVA-TV, Bluefield, WV
[edit] References
- www.buckeyetv.ohio-state.edu, Buckeye TV Official Site. Retrieved June 5th, 2006.
