Titan TV

Awards

Titan TV was honored with three awards at this past weekend’s 2023 National Student Production Awards in Orlando, Florida. 

“Recollect” produced by Bailey Laird, Ryan Patton, and Megan Kitzman took 1^st place in Best General Entertainment Program. 

Titan TV Sports staff Heather Hagedorn, Cory Sparks, and Dylan Przybylski took 2^nd place in Best Live Sportscast for coverage of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Round 2 game between UW Oshkosh and Hope College.

Kennedy Osterman received 4^th place in Best Promo for “2023 Women’s Basketball Team”.

Titan TV Mission Statement

Titan TV is a student-run television station that creates original, innovative programming serving the Oshkosh community while educating future television professionals in an inclusive environment. To be a leading national student media outlet known for producing high-quality, collaborative programming in a professional community that fosters student voices.

History of UWO Titan TV 

Original television broadcasts created at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh started in 1968. A group of students began producing daily newscasts from Clow Social Science Center in which they reported on-campus protests of the United States’ involvement in Southeast Asia. 

In 1971, operations moved into fully functioning television studios in the newly completed Arts and Communications Center. Newscasts are now aired on the campus cable system. 

The production schedule was expanded in the 1972-73 school year. In addition to newscasts, students began producing two instructional series for WPNE-TV in Green Bay. In 1974, programming was expanded from the campus to the city cable network. This was the birth of Titan TV 2. Students produced one hour of programming per week for the channel. 

Titan TV continued to add programs to its schedule. In 1976, the channel added This Week, a show that included features, interviews, sports, arts, and campus life, to its schedule. Students and their advisor, Al Folker, also began shooting the series Ski Tips on location in ’76. By 1979, UW Oshkosh’s Ski Tips was available to more than 1.5 million households as it was carried by seven different television stations with coverage in five states. 

In 1984, UWO was one of the nation’s first campuses to be affiliated with the Campus Network of New York. The Campus Network would send three hours of programming to its affiliates, via satellite, weekly. Titan TV 2 would record the transmission and include it in their weekly programming. The Campus Network programming included campus-produced programs from affiliated universities, as well as nationally produced programming. 

In 1991, Titan TV moved from channel 2 to channel 20. Later, in the mid ‘90s, Titan TV became Titan TV channel 12 due to the creation of Oshkosh Cable Access Television (OCAT). In 2003, Titan TV became Titan TV 66. On May 10, 2011, Titan TV moved to its new home on Channel 57. Two years later, in the fall of 2013, Titan TV once again moved to Spectrum Channel 10-57. 

In 2016, the tv studio facilities were upgraded to high definition. In November of 2018, Titan TV made an exciting move into the realm of streaming apps. This expansion allows viewers to access Titan TV content by downloading the Cablecast Screenweave app to their Roku, Amazon Fire Stick, Apple TV, or smart phone and selecting Titan TV from the list of channels.

In fall 2020 it began streaming 24/7 on titan-tv.org!