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TV Station now broadcasting on college network
Television studio faces remodeled along with the rerst of Chabot campus building upgrades
Natasha Walls
Issue date: 10/4/07 Section: News
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Didn't know there was a news channel? Well, it's back up-and-running.
The news and radio station programs started in 1963 with the opening of Chabot College.
Two years ago, due to budget cuts, the station was forced to stop operations.
This left the editing room and news studio unoccupied. Some of the equipment in the editing room was even new.
Once up and running again, the equipment went unused. This is mainly because the students didn't know how to use it and there was no one to teach them how.
Sujoy Sakar, co-founder of Clearwater Filmworks, graduated in 1973 from Chabot College.
Sakar was informed of the editing room's lack of use and came back to Chabot to work and volunteer his time teaching the students how to use the equipment such as the switchboard.
Sakar brought in the green screen used in the broadcasts as well as helped to rent out the studio space.
Now Chabot has regular rentals of the space, which helped bring the place back to life.
KCCTV-27, the Chabot College channel is now back on the air through the college system.
It has the potential to reach about six million viewers state- wide, as opposed to the 70,000 viewers they reached before.
There are three working channels on the Chabot campus that can pick up on the broadcasts.
Broadcasts are held in the soundproof TV studio that will be going through an updating and remodeling throughout the next three years.
Broadcasts are run using the same software that the major stations use.
Currently, all data is stored on the computers in the editing room and are transferable to each computer.
An archiving system is needed because right now the data is scattered.
Another problem is that there are no back-ups for this computer data, which, is very dangerous according to Sakar.
Right now the studio is lit with 1960 vintage lighting rigs that consume a lot of energy and will hopefully be replaced during the remodeling.
Broadcasting is made up of two classes who are in charge of the news and the talk show On the Spot.
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