Duke Union Community Television

Durham, North Carolina
Branding	Cable 13
Slogan	Turn on. Tune in. Watch Duke.
Channels	Analog: 13
Owner	Duke University
Founded	1976
Website	www.cable13.com

Duke Union Community Television (Cable 13) is the Student television station^[1] at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Cable 13 functions as a portion of the Duke University Union^[2] and is one of the first ^{[3] [4]} all student-run television stations in the nation. Founded in 1976 by Duke seniors Jed Daly and David Frey, who raised an initial budget of $20,000 from the Sloan Foundation,^[5] Cable 13 students have gone on to win four Telly Awards for "excellence in college broadcasting." Although Duke offers no major in communications and Cable 13 has been moderately funded, it was the largest student-run television station in the United States at least until 2003.^[3]

Today approximately 100 students work for Cable 13. ^[6]

In the summer of 2010, Cable 13 was redesigned into a multimedia broadcasting network, and it was renamed Duke Student Broadcasting. The network currently broadcasts multimedia content at www.dukestudentbroadcasting.com.

  History

Cable 13 in its first years shot with borrowed equipment and broadcast in black and white. Its early offerings included a Jimmy Buffett performance at Cameron Indoor Stadium, a performance by the Grateful Dead and several live feeds of Duke basketball games. Competing with five other channels at Duke, Cable 13 attracted a segment of the student audience.^[3]

In the mid-1990s Cable 13's soap opera Ivy Tower won numerous awards and was picked up by other college stations.^[3] Ivy Tower (produced by Stephen Zapotoczny, producer of 'We Were Soldiers') was broadcast by over 60 college stations in the nation in 1995.^{[citation needed]}

In 1995, Cable 13 renovated its facilities and began using the television broadcasting industry's standard digital equipment. As a result, ESPN and Jefferson Pilot Sports asked Cable 13 to provide sporting-event highlights, and the National Association of College Broadcasting called Cable 13 a "model station."^[7]

Dan Abrams, the chief legal correspondent for NBC News, former host of The Abrams Report, and the current General Manager of MSNBC, anchored occasional newscasts aired on Cable 13 when he was at Duke.^[8]

Sports Illustrated reporter Seth Davis^[9] (also one of three in-studio hosts for March Madness along with Greg Gumbel and Clark Kellogg) and ESPN's Jay Bilas have produced and hosted shows for Cable 13. Many celebrities have appeared on Cable 13, including Adam Sandler, Kevin Nealon and Mike Krzyzewski.

In 2005, Duke's University Archives began to house all of Cable 13's early programming and documentation, including video tapes and news clippings. The tapes include interviews with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Terry Sanford, as well as cultural and sporting events.^[10] Programming after 1982 is still housed on site at Cable 13.

Cable 13 celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2006. Led by Orcun Unlu, the student-run TV station began a three-year project called the "Winds of Change", which included recruitment, marketing, design of the current logo and website, switch to 24/7 programming, free blockbuster movies, new equipment, and total revamp of the studios to meet current technology demands.

In 2009, the student-run TV station began hosting a House Course for academic credit, catering to students interested in television production. The course taught by Stephanie Shyu resulted in a live weekly newscast that aired on the channel.^[11]

  Recent Presidents

• Mike Marion (2002 - 2003)^[12]
• Kevin Parker (2003)
• Wai Ping Chim (2004)
• Andrew Galanopoulos (2004 - 2005)
• Lawrence Gan (2005 - 2006)
• Orcun Unlu (2006 - 2007, 2007 - 2008) ^[13]
• Jonathan Karp (2008 - 2009)
• Merideth Bajana and Stephanie Shyu (2009 - 2010) ^[14]
• Maddie Burke (2010 - 2011) ^[15]
• Dominik Davalos (2011-2012)

Cable 13 has begun broadcasting hit movies for Duke students and started developing more student programming in its 30th anniversary in 2006. The station now broadcasts 24/7. ^[16]

  Notes

  External links

• Cable 13 (Duke)
• Duke University Union
• Duke Website

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