community television durham north carolina branding cable 13 slogan turn on . tune in . watch duke . channels analog 13 owner duke university founded 1976 website www.cable13.com duke union community television cable 13 is the student television station 1 at duke university in durham north carolina . cable 13 functions as a portion of the duke university union 2 and is one of the first 3 4 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 5 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 . 3 today approximately 100 students work for cable 13 . 6 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 . contents 1 history 2 recent presidents 3 notes 4 external links history edit 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 . 3 the station was transformed when walter deane class of 1984 became its president . deane opened new studios on the main quad of the west campus and in the new bryan center in addition to renovating the old chemistry space . a seven day a week nightly news show was initiated with bill love and doug davis as anchors . gavin sasson was the weatherman who developed quite a campus following . a daily live exercise program was also debuted known as tiffany s hour . mollie fitzgerald s cable cooking was also developed and included segments filmed in president terry sanford s home . alice babcock and rachel frankle pioneered the arts expo series in which they covered duke and durham including an interview with kenneth noland . robert levitan s late night was known throughout the campus and included a studio audience for which tickets were required . deane also did a monthly interview program with sanford chancellor brody dean wasolick dean griffiths football coach red wilson basketball coach mike krzyzewski and others as guests . a 3d film festival was the first to be on a cable station in the us at the time with glasses provided in every chronicle issue . with all of the added hours duke basketball and football continued to be covered with live broadcasts of soccer and lacrosse brought to the station s lineup . many days had as much as twelve hours of original programming with a potential audience of nearly 40 000 between the university students faculty administrators and the entire hospital complex . in the mid 1990s cable 13 s soap opera ivy tower won numerous awards and was picked up by other college stations . 3 ivy tower produced by stephen zapotoczny producer of we were soldiers was broadcast by over 60 college stations in the nation in 1995 . citation needed in 1995 cable 13 renovated its facilities and began using the television broadcasting industry s standard digital equipment . as a result espn and jefferson pilot sports asked cable 13 to provide sporting event highlights and the national association of college broadcasting called cable 13 a model station . 7 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 . 8 sports illustrated reporter seth davis 9 also one of three in studio hosts for march madness along with greg gumbel and clark kellogg and espn s 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 . 10 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 . 11 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 . 12 recent presidents edit mike marion 2002 2003 13 kevin parker 2003 wai ping chim 2004 andrew galanopoulos 2004 2005 lawrence gan 2005 2006 orcun unlu 2006 2007 2007 2008 14 jonathan karp 2008 2009 merideth bajana and stephanie shyu 2009 2010 15 maddie burke 2010 2011 16 dominik davalos 2011 2012 notes edit cbi college tv links . college broadcasters inc. duke university union . duke university union a b c d feature cable thirteen . the chronicle . 30 january 2003 . tv station looks to enhance reputation with new shows . the chronicle . 16 november 2005 . i want my cable 13 . the chronicle . 18 september 1996 . struggling cable 13 seeks to modernize . the chronicle . 11 february 2008 . cable 13 receives national recognition as model station . the chronicle . 31 august 1995 . alumni profile the report on abrams . the chronicle . 22 june 2006 . out of the ordinary . the chronicle . 21 november 2002 . inventory of the cable 13 videotapes 1976 1982 rubenstein rare book and manuscript library duke university dsg talks music movie exchange . the chronicle . 19 october 2006 . duke news campus and community through the camera lens fall 2009 syllabus . student news goes on air . duke office of news and communications . 3 december 2002 . orcun unlu s profile on duke student link duke university union on duke student link 1 external links edit cable 13 duke duke university union duke website v t e duke university academics schools and institutes divinity school duke kunshan university fuqua school of business graduate school kenan institute for ethics nicholas school of the environment pratt school of engineering sanford school of public policy school of law school of medicine school of nursing trinity college of arts and sciences programs focus robertson scholars tip athletics acc athletic 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