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The current logo for GHS-TV.

GHS-TV (GHS-TV) is a PEG channel on the campus of Germantown High School. 10 or more public access shows were broadcast every year before June 2014. The channel will no longer be carried locally by Comcast and AT&T as of July 1st, 2014. It has, however, begun sending programming to air on Shelby County Schools' Cable 19 TV station. Every year, the station wins many awards, including student Emmys^[1] and Hometown video awards.^[2] The Executive Director is Allison Long, while the 2014-2015 general managers have not yet been announced. Student master encoders are Sean Byrne and Ethan Morton, responsible for ingesting and scheduling content to air on the station.^[3] The program is almost completely run by students and operates under the direction of Bob Ramsay and Ted Beasley. In between programming, there is a regularly updated information channel powered by Infocaster. Equipment includes DVCPRO tape decks by Panasonic, XDCAM decks by Sony (3 PDW-1500s), XDCAM Disk Drive Units (7 PDW-U1s), Sony XDCAM cameras (4 PDW-700s), a Ross Vision 3M switcher, a Ross Crossover 12 switcher, 5 HP Z400s, Avid Media Composer 7 installed on each Z400, Adobe Creative Suite CS6 on 4 of the 5 Z400s, a Harris Inscriber G3, a Chyron Duet with Lyric Pro 4.1, a Miranda HD multiviewer with 16 inputs, a Yamaha audio board (O2R96) with 54 inputs, a LightViper digital snake with 32 sends for use in recording shows taped in the Poplar Pike Playhouse, a vast collection of DVCPRO tapes of all lengths, over 3,000 libraried shows and recorded events, an EditShare networked drive system, two RAIDs with up to 48TB each, several iMacs with VMWare Parallels installed for communication with the PCs that are used in the teleprompting aspect of television shows, 5 edit suites for use by students, 2 viewing rooms for use by reporters during the sound-logging process, a newsroom for use by student producers to meet and discuss shows, a dressing room for on-air talent to prepare for the camera, an equipment room that houses a lot of the gear, two studios for taping shows, a control room for use during show tapings, and a conference room. All access shows tape in Studio A, now. Before the 2013 renovation, about half of shows were taped in either studio. Studio B is now for the special Cable Quiz, as well as the more frequent Wake Up, Germantown!. Studio A has two main sets, the Cozy Cottage set, which has two reversible panels with wood designs on one side and populated bookshelves on the other. There is also a blurred window in the center that has interchangeable pictures behind it to give the sense that the show takes place in the heart of Germantown or overlooking a grassy field. The contemporary set features carpet, large padded chairs, and LED-lit background washes. The studio also has a triple flat screen monitor array for displaying graphics during a show, as well as a Sharp 80". There is a Samsung 42" that mainly stays in Studio B. All three pieces are mounted on a hydraulic base with adjustable height. The studio has also run individual SDI aux outputs from the Ross switcher so that a channel from Inscriber, or any other input, for that matter, can be routed to the TVs. Wake Up, Germantown! sees this used the most, with Cable Quiz and Living Well following.

References

1. "2013 Student Emmy Winners". Archived from the original on June 11, 2013. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
2. "Hometown Media Award Winners 2013". Alliance for Community Media. Retrieved 31 March 2014.
3. "GHS-TV Student Staff". GHS-TV. Retrieved 31 March 2014.