University of Washington Television (UWTV) is an educational television service from the

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(UW), originating from

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. Through online and mobile distribution formats, UWTV serves as an ambassador to the scholarship, discoveries and breakthrough science of the nation's top-ranked public research university, and also showcases campus culture, from sports to student activities. Programs are available online through video on demand and podcasting at uwtv.org, as well as YouTube and iTunes U.

History

Since its inception as a linear cable television channel in 1994, UWTV has received numerous regional and national awards for excellence in production and programming content created by UWTV's on-campus television professionals. By 2000 the station was available by cable in several cities. In 1999 YES-TV operated by the Yakima Valley Technical Skills Center, created a new $1.2 million studio and entered an agreement to have its programs broadcast by UWTV. In 2000 UWTV, which had been available via cable in much of the state for a decade, began broadcasting over cable in Tacoma. December 31, 2016, UWTV discontinued its linear cable television channel, preferring to focus on its website distribution and continued video production for the UW and surrounding community. As of January 1, 2017, the University of Washington ended the television broadcast of UWTV.

Programs

In 2000,

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reported that the bulk of the channel's programming was broadcasts of lectures and seminars. It televised major events at the University, such as the 2008 appearance of the

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. The first live video from the sea floor of the

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was broadcast by UWTV in 2005, showing a live view of the geothermal heated waters under study by UW oceanographers John Delaney and Deborah Kelley, as part of the Visions 2005 expedition.

Awards

UWTV, Patrick Witt, Greg Young, and Kathy Medak, were nominated for a Northwest Emmy Award for a one-time sports special, "Husky Softball: A Championship Journey. In 2017, UWTV, Cara Podenski, Eric Chudler, and Lionel Flynn won a Northwest Emmy for "BrainWorks: Exercise and the Brain" in the Health/Science program category.

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External links

* Educational and instructional television channels University of Washington Television channels and stations established in 1994 {{Washington-tv-station-stub