Duke Union Community Television

Duke Union Community Television (Cable 13) is the Student television station at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Cable 13 functions as a portion of the Duke University Union and is one of the first all student-run television stations in the nation. Founded in 1976 by Duke seniors Jed Daly and David Frey, who raised an initial budget of $20,000 from the Sloan Foundation, Cable 13 students have gone on to win four Telly Awards for "excellence in college broadcasting." Although Duke offers no major in communications and Cable 13 has been moderately funded, it was the largest student-run television station in the United States at least until 2003.
In the summer of 2010, Cable 13 was redesigned into a multimedia broadcasting network, and it was renamed Duke Student Broadcasting. The network currently broadcasts multimedia content at www.dukestudentbroadcasting.com.
History
Cable 13 in its first years shot with borrowed equipment and broadcast in black and white. Its early offerings included a Jimmy Buffett performance at Cameron Indoor Stadium, a performance by the Grateful Dead and several live feeds of Duke basketball games. Competing with five other channels at Duke, Cable 13 attracted a segment of the student audience.
Dan Abrams, the chief legal correspondent for NBC News, former host of The Abrams Report, and the current General Manager of MSNBC, anchored occasional newscasts aired on Cable 13 when he was at Duke.
Sports Illustrated reporter Seth Davis (also one of three in-studio hosts for March Madness along with Greg Gumbel and Clark Kellogg) and ESPNs Jay Bilas have produced and hosted shows for Cable 13. Many celebrities have appeared on Cable 13, including Adam Sandler, Kevin Nealon and Mike Krzyzewski.
In 2005, Duke's University Archives began to house all of Cable 13's early programming and documentation, including video tapes and news clippings. The tapes include interviews with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Terry Sanford, as well as cultural and sporting events. Programming after 1982 is still housed on site at Cable 13.
Cable 13 celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2006. Led by Orcun Unlu, the student-run TV station began a three-year project called the "Winds of Change", which included recruitment, marketing, design of the current logo and website, switch to 24/7 programming, free blockbuster movies, new equipment, and total revamp of the studios to meet current technology demands.
In 2009, the student-run TV station began hosting a House Course for academic credit, catering to students interested in television production. The course, taught by Stephanie Shyu, saw the re-design of the studio into a newsroom with a custom news set and resulted in a live weekly newscast that aired on the channel.
Recent presidents
*Mike Marion (2002-2003)
*Kevin Parker (2003)
*Wai Ping Chim (2004)
*Andrew Galanopoulos (2004-2005)
*Lawrence Gan (2005-2006)
*Orcun Unlu (2006 - 2007, 2007 - 2008)
*Jonathan Karp (2008-2009)
*Merideth Bajana and Stephanie Shyu (2009-2010)
*Maddie Burke (2010-2011)
*Dominik Davalos (2011-2012)

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