Tufts University Television
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1977
Biography
Since its founding in 1977, TUTV has grown exponentially in terms of its membership base, resources, scope of activities, and audience. From 1977 to 1997, TUTV existed primarily as a video club. It had no system for disseminating its programming on a large scale. Instead, TUTV employed a 'hand-delivery system' in which copies of TUTV programs were shuttled back and forth between TUTVs production offices and the Tufts Campus Center. In the mid-1990s, the Tufts administration entered into a contract with a company called Campuslink. The contract stipulated that Campuslink provide voice, video, and data services to the Tufts residential system. The contract also stipulated the inclusion of a closed-circuited cable channel which could be used by Tufts to deliver audio-visual content to the Tufts community. This later became channel 43. When channel 43 finally came on-line in 1997, the Tufts administration authorized the Experimental College to oversee its use. At this point, representatives of TUTV stepped in and negotiated an agreement to help manage the content creation process. Ever since then, TUTV has been broadcasting on channel 43.Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Tufts University Television Patches for Peace quilt block
Digital Image
Dates:
2001-11-07
Found in:
Tufts Archival Research Center
Tufts University Television Patches for Peace quilt block, 2001-11-07
Item
Call Number: UA136.001.026.00003.00055
Scope and Contents
Patch is located on quilt at 16C
Dates:
2001-11-07
Tufts University Television (TUTV) Records
Collection
Call Number: UA076
Scope and Contents
This collection contains video tapes in various formats for the Tufts University Television station, as well as web crawls of its web presence. The majority of the materials are VHS tapes, though there are a variety of other formats present including Umatic, 3/4 inch, and beta SP. Although TUTV was founded in 1977, this collection contains materials predating its founding that were transferred as part of their records.
Dates:
1967 -- 2020
Found in:
Tufts Archival Research Center
Tufts University Television (TUTV) - Twitter, 2020 December 16
Item
Call Number: UA203.000795
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of 349 websites crawled by DCA to document the presence of Tufts University student organizations on the web. The majority of the websites in this series are crawled on a quarterly basis.
Dates:
2020 December 16
TUTV, 2015 -- 2020
Item
Call Number: UA076.001.00001
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Quarterly web crawls of the TUTV websites crawled by DCA, as part of the Student Organizations web collection, to document the presesence of Tufts University student organizations on the web.
Dates:
2015 -- 2020
TUTV - Home | Facebook, 2015 -- 2016
Item
Call Number: UA076.001.00002
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Quarterly web crawls of the TUTV websites crawled by DCA, as part of the Student Organizations web collection, to document the presesence of Tufts University student organizations on the web.
Dates:
2015 -- 2016
