The Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech (EMCVT) is an independent governing body over student mass media organizations of the Virginia Tech campus. The EMCVT board of directors is made up of Virginia Tech faculty and staff, students, and members of the Blacksburg, Virginia

Blacksburg, Virginia

Blacksburg is an incorporated town located in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 42,620 at the 2010 census. Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and Radford are the three principal jurisdictions of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Metropolitan Statistical Area which...

 community. As the parent company EMCVT owns the copyrights on all media produced by its divisions.

In 2003, the structure of the EMCVT was called into question by Virginia House of Delegates member Robert G. Marshall

Robert G. Marshall

Robert G. "Bob" Marshall is a Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing the 13th District, currently serving his 7th term. His district includes portions of Prince William and Loudoun counties.In 2008, Marshall was a candidate for the United States Senate seat being...

 as a result of content Marshall found objectional on the Sex Talk Live aired on VTTV. Marshall called for university officials to provide more oversight over student media on campus. Virginia Tech President Charles Steiger responded that he approached the idea of prior restraint (of student media) with uneasy caution and the matter was dropped.

Divisions

• Bugle yearbook
• College Media Solutions advertising
• Collegiate Times
  Collegiate Times
  The Collegiate Times is an independent, student-run newspaper serving Virginia Tech since 1903. The Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech , a non-profit student media consortium, owns the publication...
  
   newspaper
• Silhouette literary magazine
• Student Publications Photography Staff
• VTTV television
• WUVT radio

External links

• official home page
• EMCVT bylaws