UT TV, a student-run television station is preparing to launch their first episode Wednesday at 8 p.m. Adam Gomes, Vice President and director of public relations describes the main show as “basically like an SNL weekend update-style show.”
UT TV hasn’t produced any content since the 80s and UT TV General Manager Andrew Einhorn says he’s excited about finally launching the station.
Einhorn said, “Last year this girl, who graduated, contacted a bunch of her friends that she was in a bunch of film classes with and she basically had this idea that wouldn’t it be cool if we could actually have a TV station on our campus. There are other campuses that have it, so why can’t we.”
Einhorn is also enthusiastic about how the station is being run compared to stations he has seen in other campuses
“As it turns out, many other campus’ [television stations] are run by teachers which makes [content] very limiting and I would argue less entertaining to the student population whereas ours is completely student run. So we’re going to be able to cater towards our age group’s sense of humor and areas of interest,” Einhorn said.
Gomes says that he wants the new programs to have a big impact on the school.
“When you turn on the UT channel 95 all you see are photos and maybe advertisements and the radio station is heard in the background, but we want to change that.” He said, “We want people to enjoy it, we want it to be something that people look forward to.”
Paige Daly is an anchor for UT TV and believes that it will prepare her for a future career.
“I decided to become an anchor for UT TV because I love performing and it’s also been my dream career to be a TV anchor or a host,” she said. “We try not to take ourselves too seriously and have fun while still delivering quality news.”
Aside from the weekly shows that UT TV will be airing, the station also hopes to create a variety of shows.
“We also do a jaywalking thing where we go out and interview people about random topics such as the vice presidential candidates and things like that,” Einhorn said.
The new episodes of “Campus Weekly” will air weekly and will be available on the UT TV Facebook page, which will link you to the Youtube videos.
Einhorn expressed that he is happy with the accomplishments that UT TV has reached so far, but there is more that can be achieved as the program grows.
“A lot of the goals that I had for UT TV we were able to accomplish, but the bigger ones at this point would be to have our news show every week, expanding our members and having a big viewership and being able to connect with other professional networks to get what we’re doing noticed so our members can have the best opportunities and internships.”
UT TV is also looking for a wide variety of students to help their program expand.
“We encourage anyone who is interested in television to get involved but we need film students who know everything about the cameras,” Gomes said.
Mia Glatter can be reached at Mia.Glatter@theminaretonline.com
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