FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 21 November 2005
Chicago, IL -- Columbia College Chicago's student-operated television station, Frequency TV, has joined the ranks of video podcasting by offering original, scripted, entertainment programming through the iTunes Music Store announced, Michael Niederman, chair of the college's television department.
The award-winning flagship sketch comedy "Out On A Limb" was the first program to debut on October 28. Since then six additional programs have become available for download via desktop computers or iPods.
The downloads are free and there is no cost to the college to place the episodes in the iTunes Music Store. Frequency TV is currently in the process of formatting all of its programs for iTunes. To subscribe to Frequency TV podcasts, go to www.itunes.com and search "Frequency TV."
Columbia College Chicago, an urban institution committed to access, opportunity, and excellence in higher education, provides innovative practice and education in the visual, performing, media and communication arts to 11,000 students in more than 90 undergraduate and graduate programs. Founded in 1890 as a communications school for women, Columbia was revisioned in 1963 as a liberal arts college with a "hands-on, minds-on" approach to arts and media education and a progressive social agenda. Under the modern leadership of President Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D., Columbia is aggressively pursuing its mission to bring a richness of vision and a multiplicity of voices to the creation of culture through the diversity of its students and graduates. For further information visit www.colum.edu.