The Residents Life Cinema channel’s programming, once the responsibility of a temporary programmer, will be handed over to WEIU-TV, perhaps bringing more reliability and different schedules.

Mark Hudson, director of Housing and Dinning, said he hopes WEIU-TV may be able to vary the channel’s time schedule more for the movies that are offered on week nights.

Hudson also said WEIU-TV will put the movie channel on its wide bank of monitors to keep an eye on the channel for any technical problems that may occur so they can be readily corrected.

Currently, no one regularly watches for station difficulty, so he said students have to wait longer to get any problems fixed.

“We want to provide the very best service to the students. Right now we rely on students to call in and tell us if there is a problem,” he said.

The movie channel currently offers 14 to 16 movies a month. A schedule of movies is entered into the computer program, Video Gizmo, and then runs about two times a week, repeating schedules a couple days a week.

Judy Griffin, campus area coordinator, agreed to temporarily take charge of programming for the channel when it was introduced to university housing in December 2000.

But now the task of entering schedules will be handed off to WEIU-TV.

Hudson said they are in the middle of the transition and switching will occur sometime this semester as soon as students at WEIU-TV are trained on how to use the technology.

“Judy has done a great job,” Hudson said. “With her limited time schedule we have not been able to change the movies as often as we like.”

WEIU-TV will not be taking the program over, but will have students help program starting times, ending times and dates for chosen movies into computer program, said Griffin.

Griffin will continue to make the schedule for the station and head the student committee that chooses the movies for the month.