SCOLA (TV service)
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SCOLA is a non-profit educational organization that receives and re-transmits television programming from more than 140 countries in more than 170 native languages. These programs are available via Internet, satellite, and cable TV systems. SCOLA content reaches more than 20 million viewers worldwide. The service currently has one over-the-air
affiliate, Miami
, Florida
's WLMF-LP
, carrying its first channel, offering news and programming from Europe. SCOLA also has 11 different web services that provide language training resources.
. Inspiration was drawn from worldwide satellite television
systems receiving programs from a myriad of countries. Lubbers proceeded to build a $750 satellite receiver in a garage on the Creighton campus. One year later, the campus was wired with a cable TV system featuring French and Mexican television broadcasts. The one channel created was originally known as Jay TV (named after the Creighton mascot). Assisted by future SCOLA CEO Frank Labja, Lubbers developed a computer program tracking Soviet communications satellites.
SCOLA was broadcast on the local cable service in 1992; one year, it relocated to McClelland, Iowa
, building a 13.5 acres (54,632.6 m²) plot known as the SCOLA Antenna Farm. In spring 1994, the SCOLA World Conference was held in Taiyuan, China; about 40 American educators attended. In 1995, SCOLA partnered with China Yellow River Television (based in Taiyuan, China) to send Chinese news personnel to the US to broadcast news programs from the SCOLA antenna farm. On 27 June 2008, Lubbers died.
SCOLA content is streamed on the Internet and is available on a variety of cable systems throughout North America.
SCOLA offers eight channels:
Over-the-air
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affiliate, Miami
Miami, Florida
Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
, Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
's WLMF-LP
WLMF-LP
WLMF-LP is a low-powered television station licensed to Miami, Florida. Founded in 1987 and owned by Paging Systems, Inc., a company based out of Burlingame, California, WLMF airs programs from the first channel of SCOLA, a service offering European television news and information.WLMF has an...
, carrying its first channel, offering news and programming from Europe. SCOLA also has 11 different web services that provide language training resources.
History
SCOLA was started by Rev. Leland Lubbers, a Jesuit priest, on the campus of Creighton UniversityCreighton University
Creighton University is a private, coeducational, Jesuit, Roman Catholic university located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1878, the school is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. The university is accredited by...
. Inspiration was drawn from worldwide satellite television
Satellite television
Satellite television is television programming delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by an outdoor antenna, usually a parabolic mirror generally referred to as a satellite dish, and as far as household usage is concerned, a satellite receiver either in the form of an...
systems receiving programs from a myriad of countries. Lubbers proceeded to build a $750 satellite receiver in a garage on the Creighton campus. One year later, the campus was wired with a cable TV system featuring French and Mexican television broadcasts. The one channel created was originally known as Jay TV (named after the Creighton mascot). Assisted by future SCOLA CEO Frank Labja, Lubbers developed a computer program tracking Soviet communications satellites.
SCOLA was broadcast on the local cable service in 1992; one year, it relocated to McClelland, Iowa
McClelland, Iowa
McClelland is a city in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States. The population was 129 at the 2000 census.-Geography:McClelland is located at ....
, building a 13.5 acres (54,632.6 m²) plot known as the SCOLA Antenna Farm. In spring 1994, the SCOLA World Conference was held in Taiyuan, China; about 40 American educators attended. In 1995, SCOLA partnered with China Yellow River Television (based in Taiyuan, China) to send Chinese news personnel to the US to broadcast news programs from the SCOLA antenna farm. On 27 June 2008, Lubbers died.
SCOLA content is streamed on the Internet and is available on a variety of cable systems throughout North America.
SCOLA offers eight channels:
- Channel 1: News and variety programs mainly from Europe. The primary channel carried by cable systems offering SCOLA.
- Channel 2: Programs from 11 Spanish-speaking regions and Portuguese-speaking countries
- Channel 3 (the Confucius Institute Channel): Mandarin programs, including CYRTV and other Chinese networks.
- Channel 4: Asian broadcasts
- Channel 5: African programs
- Channel 6: Middle East programs
- Channel 7: Additional Asian/Near East programs
- Channel 8: Eurasian programs