How do you do TV for schools in the US?

[nomadcowatbk]

I teach in a Channel 1 school (and play broadcast geek online)...

The Channel 1 box was pretty much as the previous poster stated. Now all the shows (the newscasts and educational programs) are brought in, and show up in the morning. The TV attached to the Channel one box comes up with a interactive menu similar to a DVR, and the shows can be transmitted by the proverbial touch of a button. There is no VCR mechanism in the Channel 1 box as in the olden days.

As for TVs in the classrooms, many teachers (and all the staff in the newest part of the building) have LCD projectors and SmartBoards to use for computer, etc, as well as a DVD-VCR combo with a tuner that acts as the TV set.

I'm old school--got my 25" Toshiba bolted to the wall!

Everything above applies to me as well, including the 90s Magnavox a poster mentioned. Our school has had Channel One since '93, when our two high schools consolidated. Our in-school TV broadcast (which isn't on because our two-year-old Tricaster died) would go out through the system. Their techs had to come twice, as we suspect wires were accidentally cut by another group of contractors.

Very few of these TVs have been replaced, but much larger and newer sets have bit the dust.

Thank goodness your school still has Channel One. Ever since this group in Alabama called Obligation Inc. started up in the mid '90s, they've been persuading schools all across the country to drop Channel One, and actually have succeeded in thousands of schools. Don't want to rant too much about it (even though I have a lot to say about it), but I think Obligation's mission to cancel Channel One News is a bit ridiculous. It seems pretty harmless to me.

the issue with Channel One is the advertising shown during school hours, on the taxpayer dime, they may have advertising at the football games but students aren't required by law to be at those, I never really paid much attention to it and the teachers didn't really do anything to make sure kids were watching, schools whored themselves for the free equipment but C1 never really upgraded the equipment and a lot schools just decided it wasn't worth it anymore using an early 90s CRT magnovox in the HD era

 

[recto101]

Well Today I doubt People would use TV for Schools. Today Teachers can just go to Youtube and find a Ted Lecture or College Lecture from Stanford and UCSF.

 

[dxtrfn]

I remember in the early 90's when I was sick from school to find out what shows that Blue Ridge PBS and UNC-TV would air during school hours. Blue Ridge PBS began their block at 9am and ended at 3pm. UNC-TV called theirs School TV and aired from 10am after Sesame Street to 2:30pm. I remember the announcer at UNC-TV (Kevin Wolf, I think) during the intermission between programs saying the School TV will continue in a moment.

 

[RadioFanBoy]

In Southern California, a handful of school districts have their own cable channel, mostly for school board meetings, sports, graduations, and other special events. More and more colleges are televising lectures from courses for distant students.

 

[wrsg915fm]

Our school opened in '93. The vast majority of the TV's still work.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Apparently I already replied here.

 

[wrsg915fm]

We have had a recurring problem with our Channel One system, thereby not allowing us to use the in-house broadcasting again this year, relegating us to PA only. It may be only a camera issue, but I'm not totally sure, since the studio is on the high school side, and I'm on the middle school side.

Someone mentioned YouTube in schools. You CAN get around that, but it's a hassle.

I would just like for us to finally bite the bullet and set up a separate system, but that's probably not gonna happen anytime soon.