Ithaca College Television
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| Ithaca, New York | |
| Branding | ICTV |
| Slogan | It's On! |
| Channels | Analog: 16 (TW Cable) |
| Affiliations | none |
| Owner | Ithaca College |
| Founded | 1958 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Ithaca College TeleVision |
| Former callsigns | WICB-TV (1958-86) ICB-TV (1986-92) |
| Website | www.ictv.org |
Ithaca College Television (ICTV) provides original, student-produced programming to approx. 26,000 households[1] subscribing to Time Warner Cable in Tompkins County, New York.[2] Additionally a live webcast and video-on-demand are available on the website. ICTV, presently on Educational Access channel 16, has operated from Ithaca College on local cable tv since 1958 [3]. Since most of the county does not receive over the air television signals, ICTV was created to provide community-oriented public affairs and entertainment programming for the Ithaca area cable audience. Productions make use of the Park School of Communications' television facilities, which include two television studios and a master control center that switches programs directly onto the cable channel.
The organization is student operated with a fulltime staff general manager who oversees operations. Typically 18-20 program units, some ongoing and some newly created, and each headed by a student producer, recruit cast and crew members at the beginning of Fall and Spring semesters. 250-300 students volunteer each term [4]. Most major in communications, but the organization is open to any major. The flagship program, Newswatch 16, in production under different names for over forty years, is now a tri-weekly half-hour primetime newscast that has won a number of student journalism awards over the years, including a College Emmy [5]. Another show on ICTV is The Race with 2 seasons. The Race Season 1 and The Race Season 2
[edit] Logo Gallery
 WICB-TV/ICB-TV "13" logo used until 1992 with change to channel 54. |
 Current ICTV logo used since 1999 with change to channel 16. |
[edit] Trivia
The current logo displays an image of the Towers residence halls at Ithaca College, the tallest structures in Tompkins County.
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