I stopped by the Princess and Channel 15 yesterday to get a little update on progress and changes.

CLICK HERE to go to the Princess Blog!

The Princess Restoration Project has been blessed again, Mr. Matt Waters has been hired by Roane State to manage Roane State and the City of Harriman’s Channel 15 TV station! Matt is currently working through the transition with Bill Radice at the station.

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The dream to bring arts education to students of Roane County began tonight in the Channel 15 studio in Harriman, with 12 area high school students attending. Two others could not make it this first night, but will be present when the class convenes again next Tuesday at 4:30.

Read more on the Princess Blog.

You can now see the upcoming Channel 15 programming schedule under the "Schedule Tab" on the Channel 15 website!

While visiting the new webpage, check out the other tabs! Lots of new things have been added.

Finally, you can view Channel 15 in Harriman from anywhere! Just click on this link http://www.roanestate.edu/?7439-Channel-15 and bookmark it for future reference.

We're rolling on!

Okay, the Dr. Littleton interview will be on Wednesday evening at 7PM ON CHANNEL 15 IN HARRIMAN - MON. MAR. 2 - Dr. Eric Littleton is a former Roane County and Harriman resident. Dr. Littleton is a physician in Sevierville and is also an accomplished pianist. He was educated in the Harriman school system. This broadcast will include Parts 1 & 2!

It is a very interesting and inspiring interview...please watch!

Last evening, I was privileged to be on hand as Bill Radice, Channel 15's station manager, with the assistance of Jimbo Duncan, passed another milestone in the station's progress toward full studio presentations. Bill Landry and Mayor Chris Mason were on hand to interview Dr. Eric Littleton who grew up and went to school in Roane County. This interview was part of the first "real" test of the station's capabilities, and the interview will be broadcast on Channel 15 soon.

Read more on the Princess Blog!

Bill Radice discusses the type of jobs normally found at a TV station on the Princess Blog this week. Click on the link to read all about the wonderful opportunities coming to the students of Roane County!

Friday Feb. 11 - 7 pm - The Ultimate Space Experience.
8 pm - National Parks, part 4
10 pm - The Civil War, part 9

Sat. Feb. 12 - 3:30 pm - The American Road 1953
5 pm - The Manhattan Project
6 pm - Cooking
7 pm - The Princess Theater 1939
7:20 pm - Antique Cars
8 pm - History of Baseball, part 9

Sun. Feb. 13 - 3:30 pm - Chasing Classic Cars
6 pm - South Harriman Memories
8 pm - Classic Movie, "Night at the opera"
10 pm - Stevie Wonder "The Early Years"

Tuesday night Feb. 15 at 7 pm will be a Special Documentary provided by Darlene Trent of The Roane County Heritage Commission. It is "The Ghost of Roane County." It is a documentary containing actual footage and recordings captured during a series of paranormal investigations conducted in the old Roane County Courthouse in Kingston.

The 1939 Princess Theater Newsreel footage of that year's "grand opening" will be shown at 7PM tonight.

See if you recognize any of your parents, grand or great grand parents!

Thur. 7 pm. - The Manhattan Project
Thur. 8 pm. - History of Earth
Thur. 10.15 pm. - National Parks 1915 - 1919

Friday 7 pm. - American Revolution part 3
Friday 8 pm. - Civil War part 1
Friday 10 pm. - Oak Ridge the Secret City

Saturday - not yet scheduled

Sunday 8 pm. - African Queen

Tonight Tues.
7 pm. - South Harriman video
9.30 pm - Oakdale video

Tomorrow night Wed.
8 pm - The Goat Man video
9.30 pm - The Grand Prees, Harriman's original Rock / Roll Band

Channel 15 has received a tremendous response from the showing of last evening’s videos about South Harriman.

The two South Harriman videos will be shown again on Comcast’s Harriman/Roane State Channel 15 tomorrow morning, Friday Dec. 31 at 10 am.

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Tonight Wed. Dec. 29 on Harriman /Roane State Channel 15

8 pm - South Harriman (A Special Place)

9.17 pm - Appalachian Dreams, short trailer from show we did at Roane State last year

9.18 pm - South Harriman Memories

CHRISTMAS EVE:
8:30 AM – HARRIMAN’S 2010 CHRISTMAS PARADE
10:00 AM – MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
11:48 AM – A CHRISTMAS CAROL
1:25 PM – A CHRISTMAS SNOW (starring Muse Watson)
3:15 PM – YULE LOG (Christmas Carols all through the night)

CHRISTMAS DAY:
10 AM – HARRIMAN’S 2010 CHRISTMAS PARADE
11 AM - A CHRISTMAS SNOW (starring Muse Watson)
1 PM – IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
3:15 PM – A CHRISTMAS STORY
4:50 PM - MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET
6:30 PM - A CHRISTMAS CAROL
8:15 PM - HARRIMAN’S 2010 CHRISTMAS PARADE
9:30 PM - A CHRISTMAS SNOW (starring Muse Watson)

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

Members of the community, a group between 100 and 200, came to the Channel 15 studio Tuesday evening to meet Muse Watson, Bill Landry, and Harriman Mayor Chris Mason. The three told the group that the City of Harriman and Roane State's Channel 15 will mean entertainment and education for them.

See photos and read more on the Princess Blog!

The equipment for the Channel 15 TV station is being moved in this weekend. It's finally official...we're open for business, although "normal scheduled" programming is yet to start.

However, programming has already been preset starting Dec 22nd but you will see other things now like Christmas programs, for example: "It’s a Wonderful Life", "Miracle on 34th Street", Muse Watson's new "A Christmas Snow", etc., and even the Harriman Christmas parade sporadically until everything is all set up.

If you have Comcast in Roane County, then manually punch in 15. The channel is not yet officially programmed into Comcast's programming, so you have to input the channel manually. That will change soon. If you seem to be getting another channel, like Channel 15 in Oak Ridge, you may need to call Comcast to have your cable box remotely tuned.

The program is running during the day and you never know what you may see. However, sometime next week I should be able to post a channel lineup for you. Keep checking this blog and keep watching Channel 15.

Dec. 15, 2010
New community station, Channel 15, is on the air

Television viewers flipping through channels, or directed there by the long-running Princess Theater blog (princesstheater.blogspot.com), may have noticed Roane County’s new community station, Channel 15.

Operated by Roane State Community College and based at the Princess Theater complex in downtown Harriman, Channel 15 gives the area a media outlet devoted to community news, information and events.

Here are a few questions and answers about the new channel.

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I hope you had occasion to watch Harriman's Christmas parade on the new Channel 15 last evening. It was a LIVE historic presentation that has been awaited for many years! If you did, we'd love to hear your comments.

More photos on the Princess Blog!

There is more to come from the “Princess Performing Arts, Education, and Conference Center"!

Update: I have a few miscellaneous photos on my personal blog post.

It's going to be a historic evening in Harriman!

Mayor Chris Mason and Bill Landry will host this year's Harriman Christmas Parade “live” via the downtown facilities of the new Channel 15 RSCC/City of Harriman Television Station. The live feed on Comcast’s Channel 15 should begin this evening (Thursday) around 6:45 PM and last until the parade is over.

The show will begin with the Mayor and Bill recognizing the City Council and all the people that made the new station possible.

This is just the beginning of things to come from our Channel 15. In the future there will be live broadcast from local events and in-studio productions. There will also be live shows from the stage of the newly refurbished Princess Theater. Most importantly, our children will have a “real” TV studio in which to gain valuable “hands on” experience.

Watch your community coming back to life tonight on the very first “live” broadcast from our very own Channel 15.

Check out the Princess Blog!

Monday November 1st 2010, at 3:12 PM, is the day that Channel 15 RSCC/City of Harriman Television went on the air!

Preset your Comcast channel lineup to include this station. You will see some great programming on this channel in the future, but for right now you will only see color bars, a welcome or maybe even a "bouncing ball" to indicate that we are up and running. Coming soon, there will be sports, education, government, weather, music, festivals, theater events and concerts showing on this channel!

This has been a very long process that has taken longer than I thought but we did it on a "shoe string" budget with a lot of donated labor.
Thanks to everyone that helped and supported this milestone,

Chris Mason
City of Harriman
Mayor

The City Of Harriman owns the new station and RSCC will operate it. Students throughout the county including high school, TTC, and RSCC will be operating the cameras, lights interviewing etc...all for school credit!

The new station's programing will also be available via the Internet once the station is up and producing programing.