RATV

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RATV, otherwise known as REBEL ALLIANCE TELEVISION, is a morning news show exclusive to Burnaby South Secondary and the British Columbia Provincial School for the Deaf. It provides both with daily news broadcasts, television entertainment, and emergency broadcasts.

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"Television Program Philosophy:

Burnaby South recognizes that citizens of the 21st Century will need to possess a variety of diverse skills. Therefore, we feel that all students should be exposed to and develop skills in the areas of communication, informational processing and computer applications, keyboarding, construction, manufacturing and the free enterprise system, energy and power, transportation, biotechnology, career oppurtunities, and leadership.

The knowledge needed to apply, adapt and utilize future technology requires life-long learning skills. To achieve this, students will need to possess critical thinking, problem solving, informational gathering, and cooperative learning skills, as well as, become technically and computer literate.

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--Tim Varro


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[edit] History

·Prior to the 2006/2007 year, RATV aired at 8:50 every morning. Presently, RATV airs after the block A class has ended.

·RMTV or Rebel Music Television ran from 1997 and was canceled. RMTV broadcasts were during lunch hours.

·Rebel Radio started in 1998 and was canceled. Rebel Radio broadcasts were during lunch hour.

·STV or Student Television was started in 2001 and is still running. The Broadcast Communications crews run this show. STV is shown during lunch hour.

·RATV or Rebel Alliance Television was started in 1995 and is still running. The Television Production crews run this show in the morning. RATV produces the morning announcements

·The original teacher, Tim Varro quit the program to move onto St. George's School (Vancouver). The course is now currently taught by Ms. Alex.

·Previously, RATV had been run mainly on tape decks and analog devices. Recently, DVD players have been purchased and the studio runs largely on a digital basis.

[edit] The program

The inside of Master Control, preparing for a broadcast.
The inside of Master Control, preparing for a broadcast.

Students enrolled in the television production program (tvp) will:

·Create commercials to promote clubs, and school-wide events

·Create Electronic news gathering, to document school sports highlights, community documentaries, and other school based events.

·Create PSAs

Filming and interview for the Staff Olympics
Filming and interview for the Staff Olympics

·Anchor for the daily news broadcast.

·Become the floor director for the broadcast

·Switch for the broadcast

·Become the teleprompter for the broadcast

·Direct the broadcast

·Work Audio for the broadcast


Students enrolled in the broadcast communications program (bcom) will create various forms of entertainment, (i.e. music videos, television series) which will be played at lunch time, or if the piece is short enough, during a morning broadcast.

[edit] Trivia

• The studio was named "Studio 2000" because it was established in the year 2000. A renaming of the studio to "Studio Infinity" has been rumored though.

• Tim Varro had been nicknamed, The Vare Bear, The Varrinator, and V-man.

• After Tim Varro's leave, his notes remained on a single whiteboard for many months.

• After Tim Varro's leave, TVP and BCOM students had no teachers teaching the course for well over two months. Burnaby South Secondary could not find any teacher with the qualifications of Tim Varro.

• Each show is supposed to be five minutes in length. Friday shows are allowed to be ten.

• RATV is named Rebel Alliance Television because the Rebel was formally the mascot of Burnaby South Secondary

• Before RATV was named RATV, it was named BSTV. The name was changed because BS can be misinterpreted as the obscene word, "Bullshit."

• Prior to the 2007/2008 year, RATV ran at block A at 8:50 AM.

[edit] The RATawards

The RAT awards is an annual student run awards night, distributing awards for topics such as:

(for TVP) ·Best commercial ·Best call sign ·Best Anchor ·Best Crew ·Best ENG ·The RAT-pack award ·The meat puppet award

(for bcom) ·Best show ·Best trailer ·Best on-air personality ·The RAZ-pack award

prizes usually consist of a little plastic trophy, or in extra special cases a plaque with the victor's name on it.

Primary source documents from the 2007 RAT awards:

all images were taken by various individuals and have no copyright

Primary source documents from the 2006 RAT awards:

Cast photo

Presentation

The logo screen

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