THE WINSTON-SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY
TUESDAY
OaOBER 19
2010
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RAM-TV21 still experiencing technical difficulties
Natalie Davis
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ndavisl07@wssu.edu
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Typical programming for the campus
cable access Channel 6.
However, for the past few days,
the same programming is being aired
on the student-run television station
RAM-TV21.
Just when the Winston-Salem
State community was informed that
RAM-TV21 programs would be return
ing this fall, the station experienced
another setback.
This past summer, the fiber optic line
in front of Hall-Patterson [the home of
the television station] was cut during a
construction project.
The RAM-TV21 staff has known
about the problem with the fiber optic
line for two months.
Kevin Fuller, mass communication
technician, said that RAM-TV21 staff is
now waiting for the fiber optics to be
hooked up.
"It is as if they [RAM-TV21] are get
ting denied of their ability to express
themselves," Fuller said. Fuller said
that when these problems are fixed,
Channel 21 will be running actual pro
grams and that the programs are ready.
In the meantime, RAM-TV21 staff
ers provided a DVD featuring their
programs to the technicians in the
Anderson Center so they could use a
fiber optic line to feed video throughout
the campus.
The technicians did not air the stu-
dent-produced programs that were sent
by the RAM-TV staff, said Terrance
Hobbs. Hobbs is one of the RAM-TV21
station managers. Instead, RAM-TV21
viewers are seeing campus announce
ments because channels 21 and 6 are
simultaneously airing the same pro
gramming.
Leslie Miles said, "We [Hobbs and
Miles] have no idea why our sched
uled programs were not being aired."
Miles, a RAM-TV21 station manager,
is a senior mass communications major
from Mount Olive, N.C.
But Richard Edwards, director of
multimedia technology, said that he
imports what RAM-TV21 provides
into the system, and it plays back on
Channel 21.
RAM-TV21 programming is sched
uled to show footage from the "1-40
Comedy Show" from Sept. 3, "Battle of
the Bands" from Sept. 5, and student-
produced documentaries.
Hobbs said that he has several shows
that he has produced for RAM-TV21.
At the beginning of fall semester,
RAM-TV21 staff had meetings and
training sessions.
"It took a while for us [RAM-TV21
staff] to get RAM-TV21 started," Hobbs
said.
"We are in a great position to keep
this station up and running full time
this year and years to come."
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