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February Newsletter
February 2, 2009
BTV is back—and this time, you can see it. This is the public start of something very big at Brown
University, and this is only phase one. In this newsletter, I will outline the current state of Brown TV with
a recap of recent significant and exciting developments.
Station
Status: Superb
Finance: BTV’s Financial Chair, Carmen Valdivia ’10, is building a financial team based around the
following areas: Fundraising, Grantwriting, Donations, Advertising. Starting from square one, this team
will have the goal of raising $2000 by May 1. Ms. Valdivia has already outlined and researched several
innovative fundraising ideas, some of which should be expected to be seen on campus in the next view
months.
Publicity: BTV’s Pilot Competition has been a tremendous success so far, with over 15 television pilots
submitted. In addition to this, the pilot competition has tangible publicity results, as we have received a
wealth of emails requesting information on BrownTV. Also, BTV recruited Artist and Marketing Specialist
Farah Shaer ’11, who will be designing material and assisting the Publicity Chair in running campaigns.
Art and Identity: Further advancements in logo conceptualization have been made. Also, BTV recruited
Artist and Marketing Specialist Farah Shaer ’11, who will work with Art and Identity Director, RISD
Student Miguel Llorente ’11, to finalize the logo in the next month and establish the BTV Image.
Recruitment: As of February 1, BTV has 27 Staff members, with two additions in the month of January.
Each was in the Development department of Production: Amanda Kim ’12 and Hallie Cantor ’11. We are
expecting up to 5 new staff members in the next two weeks. This is the largest staff BTV has had since
(according to our knowledge) the early 90s.
Event Coordination: BTV has added a new position, Event Coordinator, which will be assumed by former
University Outreach Coordinator Lilia Royanova ’11, who has a long history of party planning with
French House and a history of Event Coordination with Brown University Simulation of the United
Nations (BUSUN).
Website: On February 2, the Browntv.org website was launched, presenting information about the
Station and displaying a large quantity of the resources we offer. It is fully equipped with a blog and
video playing capability, which will be massively updated in a few months, when BTV enters stage two of
its launch project. We owe so much to our wonderful webmaster Daniela Postigo ’10.
Brown Television | February 2, 2009