Tonight at 7 p.m., Communication Technologies will release its new Wolf-TV, channel 87 on campus cable. Wolf-TV will be the University’s first station to show student-produced programs, news, shows and first-run movies.

What has served as a movie channel since 1998 will now serve as an outlet and opportunity for students to display their achievements in video production, music and photography, according to BJ Attarian, program director of Wolf-TV.

“We are one of the few large universities without a student-produced television station,” Attarian said. “I went to a conference last year where one of the focuses was to create content for student television stations and I started thinking, ‘We don’t have one of those, and let’s get one.'”

According to Josh Faircloth, a student who is producing one of the shows, ComTech is hoping for an increased interest in media production from students and to further develop their production skills.

The channel, which is separate from Student Media, will showcase whatever students want to make and show, and the opportunity is open to any students.

Communication and design students will also be able to showcase their end-of-year projects. ComTech is in charge of putting the material on the sight.

“It’s really going to be student driven, so whatever the students put up there we’ll put up there,” Attarian said. “When we don’t have content from students, we’ll fill it with [movies].”

Attarian said organizing the release has been a challenge because students have to fit it in with their class and work schedules.

“It’s been an ongoing thing,” Attarian said. “We want to offer another avenue for the students for something — apparently there’s a pretty strong interest to have one here.”

Broadcasts will premiere weekly with re-broadcasts done throughout the week.

Tomorrow, the launch will include a couple of short features. It will start with a sketch comedy show, called Doomstink, produced by Faircloth.

Faircloth, a freshman in computer science, said he has been working on the short that incorporates all students since February and has made three episodes.

“It’s a bunch of very short sketches all strung together into a 15 minute show,” Faircloth said. “I’m pretty happy about [being the first show] and I hope a lot of students get excited about it and start making their own shows. I’m excited about seeing what other students are going to make.”