Talk:Distinguished Artists

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[edit] National College Television

I was finding it hard to believe that there have been no widely-distributed student-produced television shows, given the age of television as a medium. But it was somewhat harder than I expected to find evidence to support my scepticism. I now hypothesise that student-produced network television is (i) generally ephemeral in nature, with few web-based documents surviving across the years, and (ii) a medium that has eagerly adopted online web-broadcast, and thus non-internet broadcasts have been obsoleted and are not afforded much coverage on current student television websites.

There does, however, seem to be a history of 'student-produced' 'nationally-networked' television, at least in the USA, that goes back at least fifteen years, in the form of an organisation named National College Television. At least one specific show is described, a "student produced college soap opera" named General College (cf. this reference from the originating site).

At this additional page, we learn that NCT's reach may have been as much as 700 000, not as big as PBS perhaps, but, being also nationally-distributed via satellite, clearly meriting the label 'network'.

What got me going on this is the strength of the assertion being made in that paragraph. Nothing wrong with the show--it looks great... I just haven't seen any evidence (quite the contrary, in fact) that it is 'in fact the first network television show produced entirely by students of a college or university'.

-- user:70.24.253.222

[edit] U Network?

When was this show first produced? Are the first episodes truly from 2005? If so, it seems very unlikely that it is the 'the first network television show produced by a college or university', as claimed in the article. See for example this link to a page about a student television network; which seems to provide information about a television network that distributed regularly-produced student-made programming in the mid-1990s. Based on the ease with which this example was found, I am sure that additional counterexamples could be found.

Also, the fact that the article's author is enrolled at the community college mentioned in the article makes me wonder if this is some flavour of improper 'promotion'. Not saying it is improper, just makes me wonder. -- user:70.24.253.222

While these programs are student created the stations are likely all close-circuit on campus/residence, short-wave broadcast, or community cable. While they all form a "network", not one of the few dozen listed can be seen by others than students and faculty. In comparison, network television generally refers to the BBCs, CTVs, NBCs, PBSs, and yes TVOs of the world, publicly accessible through the airwaves. This isn't to say universities can't run true network television, like a few PBS stations are, but they simply air the normal content that any station does. And yes, the episodes are from 2005. -- user:zanimum

[edit] Open University?

It may be the first network tv programme produced by a college or university in Canada but in Britain the Open University has been producing & presenting television programmes & series on BBC 2 since the 1970's. AllanHainey

Open University is not produced by Open University students, it isn't edited by OU students, it isn't written by OU students, it isn't filmed by OU students... -- user:zanimum