Ithaca College Television

Ithaca College Television (ICTV) provides original, student-produced programming to approx. 26,000 households subscribing to Time Warner Cable in Tompkins County, New York. Additionally, a live webcast and video-on-demand are available on the website. ICTV, currently broadcasting on Educational-access television channel 16, has operated from Ithaca College on local cable TV since 1958 . Ithaca College Television is the world's oldest student-run TV station. ICTV has over 250 student volunteers, and produces hundreds of hours of content each semester. 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 to the Ithaca-area cable audience. Productions make use of the television facilities at the Roy H. Park School of Communications, which include two television studios and a master control center that switches programs directly onto the cable channel.

The organization is a Student television station operated with a full-time general manager who oversees operations. Typically, 18-20 program units, some ongoing and some newly created, recruit cast and crew members at the beginning of the Fall and Spring semesters. Roughly 250-300 students volunteer each term . Most of them major in communications, but the organization is open to students in any major. ICTV's flagship program, Newswatch 16, has been in production under different names for over forty years. It is now a tri-weekly half-hour primetime newscast that has won numerous student journalism awards over the years, including a College Emmy . Newswatch 16 was recently awarded the 2009 National Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for Best All-Around Television Newscast .

One show that generated excitement outside of the Ithaca community was The Race, a reality series inspired by the hit CBS show, The Amazing Race. The Race won several awards and was recognized on various reality TV websites and blogs. It aired for two seasons in 2007. Based on the hit MTV shows Laguna Beach and The Hills, IVY was the most recent show to gain significant attention at ICTV. The new comedy was the first ICTV show to take place entirely at Cornell University. Praised for its unique visual design and effective parody of reality TV-style shows, IVY became a major hit not only at Ithaca College and Cornell University, but throughout the entire Ivy League as well. After the first season premiered, Ivy was recognized on several blogs, and even The Cornell Daily Sun, which wrote an article about the show.