TVTV hits the air

Are you interested in performing your sword-swallowing skills for a wider audience than your bathroom mirror? Want to produce a series loosely based on the exploits of your incompetent co-workers? Well, as long as your ideas don’t contain obscene, libelous, or overtly commercial content, you’ve now got a forum to express them through the medium of television.

In case you haven’t heard, the Treasure Valley has finally grown up enough to get its own public-access television station–eloquently named TVTV. Despite the fact that only cable television subscribers can view it, TVTV’s administrators, Larry Regan and BSU Communication professor Peter Lutze, want the station to be a forum for public voices that often get lost in the din of corporate-sponsored, commercial media.

The station will air seven days a week, but only from 5 p.m.. to 5 a.m., so get you VCR ready. This makes it more difficult for some programs, and therefore some opinions, to be heard beyond insomniacs.

Some of the programs scheduled include BSU student productions, including a play, “Women in the State of Grace,” among others and others to be. Additional local programs include: a blues concert/fundraiser, a full-length movie titled “Models out of Focus,” programs from church groups, area High Schools, etc.

TVTV began broadcasting Friday, Jan. 12th, so those of you out there in TV land who are creative, ambitious, or even just pissed-off enough to produce your own show–do it! Training classes are $35, and local producers pay $30 annually to use the production facilities. TVTV’s number is 343-1100.

The Arbiter would like to run a schedule and previews of student-produced programs airing on TVTV. To get your show covered, give us a call at 345-8204, or email arts@arbitermail.com.

Jim Toweill

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