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SCTV – Student Cable Television
UC Santa Cruz-Channel 28
Office Number: (831) 459-3917
Underwriting Manager- Nancy Wong, nxwong@gmail.com
Business Manager- Brandon Yu, bhyu@ucsc.edu

About Us:
SCTV was founded by a handful of film students in 2002.  Today, SCTV is fully student run with more than 400 students and operates as a financially independent on-campus television station at UC Santa Cruz.

Make Our Broadcast Audience Yours:
SCTV transmits to the entire UC Santa Cruz campus through more than 5,000 cable outlets, reaching the university gym, every residence hall, lounge, cafe and other campus facilities. SCTV also webcasts globally via www.sctv.ucsc.edu

Our Audience Demographic:
            SCTV Broadcasts to the UCSC campus of nearly 15,000 students and more than 5,000 faculty and staff. The impact of the UCSC population on the greater Santa Cruz area can be measured by the campuses $1 billion annual boost to the Santa Cruz community. The spending of the University and its employees, students, and visitors totaled more than $600 million in 2004-2005. In effect, the original dollars are “spent and respent” creating a “multiplier” in the Santa Cruz economy.

Underwriting Opportunities:
Contact SCTV for your own personalized underwriting production. You may also submit your own 15 second underwriting broadcast announcement.
All announcements are broadcasted 12 times per day

$50 Production Fee applied for materials and crew involved in the creation of personalized underwriting announcements. Still compositions have no production fee.

Submission:
Submit all files on a labeled CD in photoshop or PNG format
Or email information to the address listed below. SCTV will use this in the production of an underwriting announcement.

Mechanical Specifications:
Ads are shown in NTSC at 4:3 ratio
Streaming video transfers at 300 kb/s

General Contract Policy:
Underwriting must exclude any “calls to action” and “qualitative wording.”
SCTV reserves the right to reject or edit all submitted materials and to regulate the tone, color and language of all broadcasts. SCTV will not be responsible for breaks in the broadcast underwriting schedules due to blackouts, and other equipments failures. SCTV is not bound by any condition, written or verbal, except as set forth on the rate card and the Broadcast Announcement Contract. 

Contact Us:
Email us: nxwong@gmail.com
Watch and Visit us:  http://sctv.ucsc.edu