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WCMO-TV broadcasts a student produced newscast live each night from its studio in the McKinney Media Building.

WCMO-TV

WCMO-TV is the campus television station of Marietta College. Located on Channel 15, the station is carried on the local cable system and has been broadcasting 24 hours a day since October 2000. The majority of broadcast hours carry text messages with accompanying audio from WMRT-FM, the College's main radio station.

WCMO-TV is a student-run organization that generates local programming for the campus and the community. During the fall and spring semesters, Channel 15 broadcasts Newscenters 15 live on Monday through Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 7 p.m. The half-hour newscast is produced, written, and presented by Marietta students.
In addition, each fall the station telecasts a live political debate from its studio, featuring local candidates from the community. And on election night, Channel 15 does live coverage of results.

Students in the control room monitor the equipment as the show is broadcast.

Also, six to nine Marietta men's and women's basketball games are regularly televised live in January and February. As a community service, the station broadcasts live Marietta City Council meetings on the first and third Thursday of each month.

Students also have the opportunity to initiate original programming at the station.

Past and future programs include campus sports shows such as Pioneer Primetime, a monthly community show called River City Talk, and an upcoming show featuring pets.

A newly constructed integrated television and radio newsroom now enables writers and producers to construct even more original programming with specialized newsroom software and state of the art editing software and equipment.

Stories written by students in the newsroom are fed directly to the TelePrompTers on the set of WCMO-TV.

Feeds from several cameras can be viewed in the studio.

The broadcast uses two cameras.

Stories written in the Mass Media Newsroom can be fed directly to the TelePrompTers.