TechTV is a 24-hour Cable television

Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

 channel for students of Louisiana Tech University

Louisiana Tech University

Louisiana Tech University, often referred to as Louisiana Tech, LA Tech, or Tech, is a coeducational public research university located in Ruston, Louisiana. Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier 1 school in the national universities category by the 2012 U.S. News & World Report college rankings...

 in Ruston, Louisiana

Ruston, Louisiana

Ruston is a city in and the parish seat of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 20,546 at the 2000 census. Ruston is near the eastern border of the Ark-La-Tex and is the home of Louisiana Tech University. Its economy caters to its college population...

, featuring news and shows about Louisiana Tech affairs and events. Originally titled "ResTV", the information-based television channel started off as a Public-access television

Public-access television

Public-access television is a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create content television programming which is cablecast through cable TV specialty channels...

 cable TV channel for university students. Today, it is the University's most watched standard cable channel . The channel is provided by Suddenlink Communications

Suddenlink Communications

Suddenlink Communications, formerly Cebridge Connections, is a top-10 cable broadband services provider in the United States with approximately 1.4 million subscribers. Suddenlink operates in 18 states in primarily medium-sized communities. With its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, MO,...

.

Samuel Speed started ResTV in 2000. The channel quickly became known as Techtv. The channel has grown considerably and now features Hollywood films as provided by the ResCinema distribution company for universities nationwide.

The university's channel shared the TechTV name with a major national channel dedicated to technology, though TechTV was absorbed by G4

G4 (TV channel)

G4, also known as G4 TV, is an American cable- and satellite-television channel originally geared primarily toward young adult viewers, originally based on the world of video games...

and no longer exists.

Services

TechTV provides services to on-campus organizations only. The most common method to advertising on TechTV is via promotional slides which plays throughout the day when a video or movie is not playing. Each slide rotates every 8 seconds with music played in the background. The station is most known for the 24 hour "snake-a-thon." During these 24 hours, there was nothing shown but pictures and videos of snakes in their natural wildlife. This sparked the attention of local and national media, and the creator of the "snake-a-thon" was featured on an episode of The "O'Reilly Factor" on FOXNEWS. The second option is to submit a video commercial to be played on the channel, which is played between the movies during original programming.

External links

• Louisiana Techtv Broadcasting website
• Louisiana Tech University Website