Executive Director- Alaina Waterman

News Director- Kristen Woodside

Resource Manager- Edrienne Besagar

Programming Manager- Sarah Takushi

Come say ‘Hi’ at the RSO fair August 30th and learn more about Titan TV. In the meantime check out some movies on our on-demand webpage: http://ondemand.iwu.edu/site/SDC/Content/Browse.aspx

Executive Director (currently Michael Gorman ’10)

Rachel Paturi ’13

Programming Manager (currently Derrick Rohl ’12)

Steve Lessaris ’12

News Director (currently Nathan Butters ’10)

Dominick Bruno ’12

9×9 Projects Manager (currently Dane Brinkmeier ’12)

Grant Flyte ’13

Resource Manager (currently Steve Lessaris ’12)

Sarah Takushi ’13

Titan TV is an entirely student-run organization, and all of the members of our new Executive Board are very enthusiastic and excited about the leadership experience they’ll gain in their new positions. They’ve all got a lot of innovative ideas and long-term goals for the station. After three and a half years in the group, I couldn’t be more excited about what these new leaders will undoubtedly do for the organization.

If you have any questions, you can email titantv@iwu.edu.

Our February 10 deadline to vote on March movies is rapidly approaching!  We’ve been checking in with our representative at Swank Motion Pictures and we found out that licensing is unavailable for 500 Days of Summer, Fight Club, The Proposal, and Coco Before Chanel. If you want to see which new releases are available, check out the Residence Life Cinema website and keep sharing your ideas on Titan TV’s facebook page!

It’s made by students here at IWU.  It’s called “The Guys Next Door”.  It’s about the four students with very contrasting personalities packed into one chaotic room.  It’s like “The Real World”, except more real.

You can check out their website here, or their facebook page here.

The show begins on Sunday, January 31st at 8 pm at the Hansen Student Center.  Everyone is welcome to come!

All new episodes will air on Channel 5 on Sundays at 8 pm.

Hope you enjoy the show!

We’re going to try a new way of selecting our March movies by having YOU give us your input! Post the title of a movie you want to see on our facebook page. To support someone else’s suggestion, just click ‘Like’ on their post. The deadline for ideas will be noon on Wednesday, February 10 and the most liked titles will become part of our March lineup!

Want your choice to come out on top? Invite your IWU friends to ‘like’ your suggestion and it might just end up on the air in March! If you have any questions, contact us at titantv@iwu.edu!

Happy picking!

Look for these movies playing on Titan TV throughout the month of January:

• We Are Marshall
• When Harry Met Sally
• GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra
• Driving Miss Daisy
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• Dumb and Dumber
• The Hangover
• Crash (2005)
• Happy Feet
• Cadillac Records
• Public Enemies

Remember, you can always check online to see what’s playing on channels 4 and 5!

It’s been a while since we’ve updated the campus about what’s going on in Titan TV, so I wanted to take a minute today to do just that.

On December 1, Steve Lessaris became our new Resource Manager. Steve has been a very active member of the organization this semester and has a very positive energy in taking on his new role in the organization. The Titan TV Resource Manager keeps track of all of our equipment, people, and space, and Steve has some great ideas for how to do all of that.

Another big update is about our studio space. A few years ago, Titan TV was given an open room in the lower level of Gulick Hall to use as a studio. The room was not made to be a TV studio (far from it), but, given the opportunity to incrementally adjust the space to suit our needs, we’ve worked hard these past few years to try to improve the space. It’s not perfect yet, but we’ve gotten a lot of help from Physical Plant and IT this semester, so I wanted to show a couple of before-and-after pictures to show how far we’ve come and thank them for their continued support.

the north-facing wall last March

the east-facing wall last March

the north-facing wall this November

the east-facing wall this November

Titan TV schedule on MyIWU

Have you ever logged in to MyIWU and eagerly navigated to the Students tab to see if there was a new Titan TV blog post? Chances are, well, low.

In conversations with students around campus, it’s pretty obvious that people want to watch Titan TV. For a lot of them, though, it’s difficult to know when to tune in. After all, without easy access to a Titan TV schedule, how would they know when their favorite movies were showing or when to catch Titan News?

So, we listened. By removing the Titan TV blog feed from MyIWU, we would clear up some screen real estate. What better to fill it with than what people want easier access to?

It’s tied in to the same database that drives the main schedule page and the iCalendar versions (channel four, channel five, or both), so it’s just as easy for us to keep it up-to-date as it already was. And if you like one of the other access methods more, you can keep checking the schedule how you have been before.

Last Thursday, Undercover, the cover song talent show put on by the Office of Student Activities, happened for the fourteenth time on our campus! We were there to film it. It will be playing on Titan TV starting on Tuesday, too (and it should be for a while longer), so check it out. It’s pretty awesome. We also uploaded each song and the results to our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bloomington-IL/Titan-TV/29917599299), so you can see whichever parts you want to see there, too.

As always, let us know what you think. Questions, comments, ideas, suggestions, whatever. Email us at titantv@iwu.edu or call us at 309-556-2639 (or just x2639 on campus).

Executive Director

Michael Gorman

Programming Manager

Derrick Rohl

News Director

Nathan Butters

Resource Manager

Steve Grisko

The people listed above will be shadowing the current Executive Board members in their positions throughout the month of March and on April 1 at 12:00am, they will take the reins and start doing the jobs themselves.

This is an important step in the development of Titan TV as an organization and I couldn’t be happier for Derrick, Nathan and Steve. I know this is going to be a strong group going forward.

If you have any questions about this or if you would like to learn more about getting involved in Titan TV, send me an email at titantv@iwu.edu.