TIMELINE: Ten years of innovation

BTV has had many firsts. We were the first high school televison program in Marion County. We were the first to offer multiple programs under a new "network" strategy. And we continue to reinvent the medium at East Fairmont High School.

-1993. Three students, Josh Starsick, Gary Furbee, & Benjamin Riley, come together to tape a pilot for an afternoon announcements program. The pilot was so successful and well recieved that BTV was boarn and expanded to more than just an announcements program and began airing two to three times a week.

-2000. BTV stops producing a television show for the school and begins doing a segment for the local CBS affiliate, WDTV in Bridgeport.

-2001. Such members as Adam Kabulski, Jennifer Gaston, and Greg DeVito transform BTV back to an afternoon in house program under the guidence of Mrs. Sally Manly and Mrs. Joyce Conrad.

-2002. The afternoon program, now called BTV Friday, continues minus last year's juniors Greg DeVito and Jeff Boyles. By the end of the year, BTV Friday had a become a totally non-linear program.

-March 2003. A new morning news program entitled This Morning airs for the first time offering students interviews, news, and the weather before school with live remotes in the English Hall. Soon after Later This Morning airs with just the announcements in place of the morning bullietin.