CalTV
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CalTV is the University of California at Berkeley's online television station. It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at CalTV.org.
's online video player. For producing content, CalTV utilizes a 3CCD mini-DV digital video camera, the industry standard Final Cut Pro
video production software running on Apple
iMac G5
. With continued support from the student government, CalTV intends to invest further in its technology platform, thereby fulfilling its goals towards the Cal community.
CalTV also podcasts
its content. The podcast feed is available through the iTunes
Music Store.
mode. The show featured brief backgrounds on stories introduced by CalTV journalists followed by opinion from Berkeley students and professors.
With time, CalTV's content expanded into sports, arts and eventually entertainment. "The CalTV Sports Highlight" was born in 2006 and covered California football, baseball, water polo and much more. The semester of Spring 2007 marked the debut of "The CalTV Show", an off-beat news show offering a summary of local and national news as well as commentary on issues of concern to students. "The CalTV Show" has now since been renamed "The CalBear Report."
The current 2007-2008 cast of "The CalTV Show" includes (in no particular order): Yaou Dou, Katie Felber, Rosa Kim, Kira O'Connor, Helga Zambrano!, Chin Hua-Lu, and Tamara Buran. Jeff Stern got his start at CalTV where he interviewed protesters outside the Boalt Law School. And pandas.
CalTV sports features high octane highlights of Cal sports action, including "The CalTV Sports Highlight" which airs every Monday. Also included in the programming are CalTV sports' "Back and Forth" and "Sports Shorts." "Back and Forth" features banter on all sports related topics from the Cal Football Team to Women's Field Hockey. "Sports Shorts" features updates on recent teams in action, as well as interviews with students on Sproul Plaza. The Sports Department team for 2009-2010 includes Director Dan Fiedler and on-camera reporters Chris Carr, Shira Chung, Kevin Cohen, Jessica Dzubnar, Catherine Kauffelt, Zeshan Kazmi, and Caroline Ogawa.
CalTV Journalism features many informative weekly shows including Berkeley Beat, CalConnect, InFocus, and CalTV Journalism.
CalTV debuted its new Music programming this semester with episodes premiering on the weekends.
The station has also gaining visibility in the Berkeley blogging community http://clog.dailycal.org/index.php?s=other, http://calstuff.blogsome.com/2007/01/25/new-caltv-launch/
History
Though there had been multiple attempts to get a television station for Berkeley off the ground, it wasn't until Spring 2005 that the ASUC was able to allocate sufficient seed money towards setting up an online TV station.Technology
CalTV uses a unique combination of web and digital media technologies to produce its online broadcasts. As its web platform, CalTV uses standards compliant and customized content management system coupled with the YoutubeYouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
's online video player. For producing content, CalTV utilizes a 3CCD mini-DV digital video camera, the industry standard Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro is a non-linear video editing software developed by Macromedia Inc. and then Apple Inc. The most recent version, Final Cut Pro X, runs on Mac personal computers powered by Mac OS X version 10.6.7 or later and using Intel processors...
video production software running on Apple
Apple
The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family . It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits, and the most widely known of the many members of genus Malus that are used by humans. Apple grow on small, deciduous trees that blossom in the spring...
iMac G5
IMac G5
The iMac G5 was a series of desktop Macintosh computers designed and built by Apple Inc. using the PowerPC chip architecture. It was the last line of iMac computers that used a PowerPC chip, making it the last of the iMacs that could run Mac OS 9 applications. In August 2004, the iMac design was...
. With continued support from the student government, CalTV intends to invest further in its technology platform, thereby fulfilling its goals towards the Cal community.
CalTV also podcasts
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
its content. The podcast feed is available through the iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
Music Store.
Content
The station's content has evolved with time. In its first iteration, the station produced a single show focusing exclusively on news events (local, national and international) but produced in a citizen journalismCitizen journalism
Citizen journalism is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information," according to the seminal 2003 report We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information...
mode. The show featured brief backgrounds on stories introduced by CalTV journalists followed by opinion from Berkeley students and professors.
With time, CalTV's content expanded into sports, arts and eventually entertainment. "The CalTV Sports Highlight" was born in 2006 and covered California football, baseball, water polo and much more. The semester of Spring 2007 marked the debut of "The CalTV Show", an off-beat news show offering a summary of local and national news as well as commentary on issues of concern to students. "The CalTV Show" has now since been renamed "The CalBear Report."
The current 2007-2008 cast of "The CalTV Show" includes (in no particular order): Yaou Dou, Katie Felber, Rosa Kim, Kira O'Connor, Helga Zambrano!, Chin Hua-Lu, and Tamara Buran. Jeff Stern got his start at CalTV where he interviewed protesters outside the Boalt Law School. And pandas.
CalTV sports features high octane highlights of Cal sports action, including "The CalTV Sports Highlight" which airs every Monday. Also included in the programming are CalTV sports' "Back and Forth" and "Sports Shorts." "Back and Forth" features banter on all sports related topics from the Cal Football Team to Women's Field Hockey. "Sports Shorts" features updates on recent teams in action, as well as interviews with students on Sproul Plaza. The Sports Department team for 2009-2010 includes Director Dan Fiedler and on-camera reporters Chris Carr, Shira Chung, Kevin Cohen, Jessica Dzubnar, Catherine Kauffelt, Zeshan Kazmi, and Caroline Ogawa.
CalTV Journalism features many informative weekly shows including Berkeley Beat, CalConnect, InFocus, and CalTV Journalism.
CalTV debuted its new Music programming this semester with episodes premiering on the weekends.
Special events
CalTV has also been involved in the coverage of many on-campus and off-campus special events. These events included exclusive interviews with such celebrities as:- Michel GondryMichel GondryMichel Gondry is an Academy Award winning filmmaker, whose works include being a commercial director, music video director, and a screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. - Life and career :...
- Will FerrellWill FerrellJohn William "Will" Ferrell is an American comedian, impressionist, actor, and writer. Ferrell first established himself in the late 1990s as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, and has subsequently starred in the comedy films Old School, Elf, Anchorman, Talladega...
- Conan O'BrienConan O'BrienConan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer. Since November 2010 he has hosted Conan, a late-night talk show that airs on the American cable television station TBS....
- Adam SandlerAdam SandlerAdam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, musician, and film producer.After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, Sandler went on to star in several Hollywood feature films that grossed over $100 million at the box office...
- Don CheadleDon CheadleDonald Frank "Don" Cheadle, Jr. is an American film actor and producer. Cheadle rose to prominence in the late 1990s and the early 2000s for his supporting roles in the Steven Soderbergh-directed films Out of Sight, Traffic, and Ocean's Eleven...
- Jerry SeinfeldJerry SeinfeldJerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and television and film producer, known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the situation comedy Seinfeld , which he co-created and co-wrote with Larry David, and, in the show's final two seasons,...
- Regina KingRegina KingRegina King is an American film and television actress. She is well known for her role as Mary Jenkins's studious daughter, Brenda Jenkins, on the 1980s sitcom, 227, and for her critically acclaimed supporting role in the feature film Jerry Maguire...
- Emile HirschEmile HirschEmile Davenport Hirsch is an American television and film actor. He began performing in the late 1990s, appearing in several television films and series, and became known as a film actor after roles in Lords of Dogtown, The Emperor's Club, The Girl Next Door, Alpha Dog, and Into the Wild. In...
- Viggo MortensenViggo MortensenViggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. is a Danish-American actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter. He made his film debut in Peter Weir's 1985 thriller Witness, and subsequently appeared in many notable films of the 1990s, including The Indian Runner , Carlito's Way , Crimson Tide , Daylight , The...
- The cast of Hot RodHot rodHot rods are typically American cars with large engines modified for linear speed. The origin of the term "hot rod" is unclear. One explanation is that the term is a contraction of "hot roadster," meaning a roadster that was modified for speed. Another possible origin includes modifications to or...
- The cast of Superbad (film)
- The cast of Comedy Central's Reno 911
- California First Lady Maria ShriverMaria ShriverMaria Owings Shriver is an American journalist and author of six best-selling books. She has received a Peabody Award, and was co-anchor for NBC's Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics. As executive producer of The Alzheimer's Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of...
- Former CBS anchor Dan RatherDan RatherDaniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. is an American journalist and the former news anchor for the CBS Evening News. He is now managing editor and anchor of the television news magazine Dan Rather Reports on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was anchor of the CBS Evening News for 24 years, from March 9,...
- CNN Sr.Medical Correspondent Sanjay GuptaSanjay GuptaSanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon and an assistant professor of neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine and associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia....
Funding
CalTV has been supported in a large way by the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC). CalTV also works closely with Big Ideas @ Berkeley, an initiative that provides funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams at UC Berkeley. The station has also been exploring revenue generation through ads and promotional activities.Recognition
CalTV has been recognized in local media. The Daily Cal, Berkeley's newspaper, published articles on CalTV http://www.dailycal.org/printable.php?id=931 , http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=19714 .The station has also gaining visibility in the Berkeley blogging community http://clog.dailycal.org/index.php?s=other, http://calstuff.blogsome.com/2007/01/25/new-caltv-launch/