OU's WIRE will offer new television programming. Next week the campus radio station will show certain music videos on channel four with Cox Cable.
Lynn Franklin, WIRE supervisor, said he asked for an increase in funding but has been turned down. The WIRE is student-funded and receives $4100 a year. Most of this money goes to license fees and promotional items.
"I'm going to stretch the money we are allotted to allocate for our new programming," Franklin said.
The station currently plays slides of pictures, upcoming events and advertisements throughout the day.
Franklin said the WIRE does not usually offer very much television programming.
Charles Self, dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, wants the WIRE to play more television content like many other universities.
"I used to manage a television channel for a college in Texas, and we are trying to imitate that idea of television programming here at OU," Franklin said.
The WIRE is run by students on campus, and those students will get the opportunity to introduce the videos.
"It is going to mimic MTV style," Franklin said.
This will allow the students to not only obtain the audio aspect of radio but the visual aspect of television.
Franklin said it is important for broadcast journalists to be knowledgeable with a variety of broadcast styles: radio and television.
RaShaun Stubbs, broadcast journalism and electronic media junior, said he likes the opportunity to air different types of broadcast. This is his first time to introduce music videos.
Stubbs is enrolled in the WIRE course this summer and has gotten to be filmed introducing music videos.
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