UCTV Launches on Local Cable in Northern California; Educational Programming All Summer Long in Sacramento, Butte and Glenn Counties.Business Editors/Education Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 25, 2004 Beginning in June, local cable subscribers in Sacramento, Butte Butte, city, United States Butte (by  t), city (1990 pop. 33,336), seat of Silver Bow co., SW Mont.; inc. 1879. It is a trade, ranching, and industrial center. and Glenn counties can enjoy a summer vacation from mindless re-runs and shouting pundits by tuning in tuning in,v process in which a therapeutic touch practitioner centers himself or herself so as to be aligned with or “in tune” with a healing energy “frequency,” so that the patient may choose to join the practitioner (tune to enriching and informative television from University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). Television (UCTV UCTV University of California Television ). All summer long, viewers in Sacramento can watch UCTV every night at 8 p.m. on SECC (Single Edge Contact Cartridge) A CPU module from Intel that held Pentium II and Pentium III chips and their L2 cache chips. The SECC plugged into Slot 1 on the motherboard and contained a single edge processor package (SEPP), which was the printed circuit Channel 16 (Comcast)/ Channel 22 (SureWest), while those in Butte and Glenn counties can catch UCTV every Friday from Noon to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 7 p.m. to Midnight on BCTV BCTV British Trust for Conservation Volunteers BCTV Broadcast Television BCTV British Columbia Television BCTV Beijing Cable Television BCTV Blue Collar Television (TV show) Comcast Channel 11 (Chico, Durham, Corning, Orland) and Channel 42 (Paradise, Oroville, Gridley, Biggs). UCTV offers an astounding a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, range of educational and enrichment programming from the campuses and national laboratories of the renowned University of California system. Viewers can choose from a diverse line-up of thought provoking interviews, lectures, documentaries, debates, performances and more, covering subjects such as health and medicine, science, public affairs, literature, and the arts. June's schedule is packed with content not found anywhere else on television, including a talk by Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. winner Shirin Ebadi; a debate about the war in Iraq featuring former ambassador and Bush critic Joseph Wilson and conservative commentator William Kristol; and a recent performance of Verdi's Requiem by the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra and University Chorus. A complete program schedule, show descriptions and more are available at www.uctv.tv. UCTV is available in over 13 million homes nationwide and can be viewed via the following: -- Cable TV: In Sacramento, Butte, and Glenn Counties and on many other community channels throughout California (see www.uctv.tv/cable for details). -- Direct Broadcast Satellite: nationwide 24 hours a day, Dish Network Channel 9412 -- Internet: live Webcast and subsequent "video-on-demand" streaming video at www.uctv.tv Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium's (SECC) mission is to provide quality educational resources to learners of all ages in the greater Sacramento Community primarily through video and other information and communication technologies via cable systems and networks. SECC is a collaborative effort of the K-20 education community all working together toward this mission. BCTV is seen by more than 80,000 cable television subscribers in Butte and Glenn counties and offers a wide selection of educational and community-oriented programming. Besides broadcasting telecourses and educational programs, BCTV also broadcasts Butte College athletic events and other informative and entertaining programming. In addition, the college television station serves as the public access channel for community members served by the Butte-Glenn Community College District. |
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