RAM-TV on air: Only thing 'cooking' is cooking program

Finally, RAM-TV21 is on the air.

During the past few days, the student-run television station in Hall-Patterson has been rebroadcasting programs from this past spring that include short films and documentaries produced by Winston-Salem State students and non-students.  

However, there is one new program on RAM-TV: "Eat with Your Eyes" featuring Chef Oscar Taylor Sr.

This past summer, the fiber optic line in front of Hall-Patterson was cut during a construction project.

While waiting for the fiber optic line to be fixed, RAM-TV staffers provided a DVD featuring their programs to the technicians in the Anderson Center, so they could feed videos throughout the campus.  

Instead, viewers were shown campus announcements because channels 21 and 6 were simultaneously airing the same programming.

Terrance Hobbs said that they are happy that all of their problems have been resolved. Hobbs is a senior mass communication major from Charlotte and also one of the station managers.

The new cooking program airs new episodes every Thursday. The episodes are replayed throughout the week.

Taylor, a freshman mass communications major from Winston-Salem, said that the show is about teaching WSSU students how easy it is to cook food in a dorm.

During his show, Taylor teaches kitchen safety and sanitation, talks about food costs, and provides food facts.

"The show's purpose is to help college students save money, rather than spending it on take out and fast food," Taylor said.

"It [RAM-TV] gives me the opportunity to learn about and gain the comfort of being on television. This gives me direct exposure to my target audience [college students]."

Programs like the 2010 Black & Gold Pageant [from Oct. 1] are also being shown.

Other programs aired on RAM-TV include 2010 Homecoming events such as Pajama Jammy Jam [from Oct. 17] and the Coronation [from Oct. 18].

Short films and student-produced documentaries by the electronic media students in the Mass Communications Department are being shown.

RAM-TV is airing older programs and programs by students who no longer attend WSSU.

"The Infinite Sacrifice," by Jerell Fields, an alumnus, is a golf documentary airing on RAM-TV.

Hobbs said that RAM-TV will always have music videos to show by Devease Simpson, who wrote the WSSU anthem. Simpson is a senior mass communications major from Greensboro.