| Columbia, Missouri | |
|---|---|
| Branding | MUTV |
| Slogan | Your Campus Station |
| Channels | Analog: Campus cable[1] channel 23 (also on Mediacom channel 20 off-campus during limited hours) |
| Owner | Missouri Students Association, Curators of the University of Missouri |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Call letters' meaning | Missouri University Tele- Vision |
| Former affiliations | RHEN (Residence Hall Entertainment Network) |
| Height | 242 meters (794 ft) AMSL |
| Website | mutv.missouri.edu |
MUTV is an American student university Student television station channel that originates on the campus the University of Missouri in Columbia. The station airs original student programming in addition to recently released major motion pictures. MUTV airs to the campus on channel 23, though its programming is also simulcast to local cable TV subscribers (see below). The station is funded by the student government and gives undergraduate students a chance to gain experience before entering their journalism sequence.
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MUTV programming can also be seen on all Mediacom Public-access television cable systems throughout the Columbia-Jefferson City market on cable channel 20, Tuesdays 9:00-10:00 p.m., Wednesdays at 12:00 midnight-1:00 a.m., Thursdays 5:00-6:00 p.m., and Saturdays 3:00-4:00 p.m.
MUTV was founded in the late 1990s by the Missouri Students Association, the student government organization on the Mizzou campus. The station’s founding purpose was for it to be promotional tools for MSA much like the student run radio station, KCOU, was. However, this original purpose was not followed and after the first couple of years the station operated on its own and only looked to MSA for funding and support.
It was during those first years that the leaders of MUTV redefined the stations goal. By 2001, the station became a tool for students to gain real life journalism experience before entering Missouri’s journalism or communication schools. MUTV took its place on campus as a student run media outlet like sister-station KCOU.
In late 2003 the station began broadcasting two of its programs on Columbia’s local Public-access television channel (CAT-TV). Only the shows JC Rocks and Nitetime with Nelson Muller were aired. This only lasted a couple of years and had ended by 2005.
MUTV currently has five original shows, produced, anchored, and directed by Missouri students. The shows are 23News, providing MU students with the latest news on and around campus, 23Sports, showing the best of Tiger sports, The Prowl, bringing students everything arts and entertainment, Tailgaters, analyzing pro and college sports alike, and Shack Therapy, where the funniest kids on campus come together for a hilarious improv show.
Since 2005, MUTV has been planning and preparing for a state of the arc HD studio located in the MU student center. The studio is scheduled to open January 2011.
MUTV started showing movies in of August 2003. The movies were the result of a deal between the station and Missouri’s Residence Hall Association. RHA agreed to fund the movies as long as MUTV would take responsibility for programming and airing them. Currently, the station airs approximately sixteen different movies each month.
The station has several shows in their current rotation. These include news, talk, entertainment and sport shows.
23NEWS, is a news show anchored by station volunteers with an emphasis on University of Missouri topics. The news show has aired under several different names since the station’s inception. It originally aired under the name MUTV News and ran approximately 20 minutes and aired about 5 to 6 times a year. In the 2001–2002 school year it was just 5 to 15 minutes long. The following school year, the show was expanded to a full 30 minutes that aired every other week and sports was integrated into the program. Starting in 2003, 23NEWS expanded to a weekly newscast that aired twice daily. The news department also supported special programming such as candidate forums for campus elections and on-location sports coverage for Missouri football bowl games. In 2007, the 23NEWS format was changed back to its 2001 season with the inception of 23NEWS WakeUp, a 5-minute morning show airing weekend mornings. Sports was spun off to its own show, This Week in 23Sports in favor of more news content.
Tailgaters is a sports show discussing MU sports, and sports from across the country. The show originally aired under the name Open Mike during the 2006–2007 programming year.
MUTV also airs The ProwL an entertainment show and Triple Play, a sports trivia game show.
Many of the stations shows only last a year or two before they are canceled and replaced. Two of the shows that had a relatively long run were Nitetime with Nelson Muller and JC Rocks. JC Rocks stopped airing on the station in the spring of 2005 following a four year run with more than 50 episodes. The show’s founders took the program national in 2005 and it can now be seen on several Christian TV networks.
The show MU Talks was a talk show discussing topics of student interest with guests. It was hosted by Lorenzo Hall (now reporter at WTVR in Richmond) who was also the show’s executive producer.
As of 2011, the current executive staff of MUTV is as follows:
| Position | Executive |
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| General Manager | Caroline Dobrez |
| Assistant General Manager | Michael Weaver |
| Student Media Adviser | Mark Johnson |
| Assistant General Manager | Kevin Vauble |
| Advertising Account Executive | Jackie Hade |
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