| Brown Television (BTV) | |
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| Launched | 1987 |
| Owned by | Brown University |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | Brown University |
| Headquarters | Providence, Rhode Island |
| Website | http://browntv.org/ |
Brown University Student Television (also known as Brown Television, BrownTV and BTV) is a Student television station broadcasting on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Brown Television is one of the most historically rich organizations at Brown University. It began in 1987 founded by Doug Liman, now Hollywood director of “The Bourne Identity” and “Jumper”, among others. It was a student run television network running student made productions both for news and entertainment back in the old days of analog UHF equipment and tape decks.
At some point down the line, technology left BTV in the dust. The old analog equipment started to fail, production ceased to exist anymore after the last great stand of the show Elected and BTV became nothing more than a channel on Brown’s IPTV network broadcasting movies distributed by Swank. This, however, also ended due to contract disputes between Swank’s clients and the use of IPTV for the distribution of the movies. At this point, BTV had become nothing more than an empty room with missing and broken equipment and a channel broadcasting a blackscreen 24 hours a day.
BTV was, however, not yet ready to die. A group of determined students, though small in number, still yearned to resuscitate BTV and put their efforts toward this goal. At the same time, another small, but passionate group, of students was trying to reestablish the Brown Film Society’s old production outfit that had also become a sad nothingness, Brown Film Production. These two groups would eventually realize their common goals and agree upon collaboration for the good of all, and as of Spring 2008, a heavy budget written and proposed, the Undergraduate Finance Board took BTV’s side and allocated the necessary funds to powerfully and tangibly start the reconstruction of Brown TV.
Currently, BTV stands on the cusp of a new frontier. A selection of shows selected from a screenwriting competition are in production, and some have produced pilot episodes.
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