In a joint venture of the Student Information Network and Information Technology, the campus movie channel will soon become WMTV, airing the usual slate of movies each evening but also showing original student-produced programming during the day and after midnight.

Anything Goes, the Lodge 1 gameshow, will be one of the main features of WMTV's student programming. According to SIN director Armistead Booker, a junior, Anything Goes will air on alternating weeks. The other weeks will feature SIN TV, with student films, campus events and "students on the street," a forum for students to discuss campus and world issues.

SIN News, the website's news outlet, will also be incorporated into the television programming, with the online information complementing the content on TV. Eventually part of the SIN website will be the online counterpart to WMTV, which will increase programming supplements, schedules and details about the individual shows.

This year SIN staff members took over the task of running the films on the movie channel and putting the schedule on the campus information channel. Since students came back to campus for the spring semester, the movie channel has had a number of problems, including movies airing with no sound and movies failing to air. Booker said these difficulties have sometimes been due to soundtrack flaws in the movies that UCAB receives.

Additionally, due to the Swem Library construction, SIN staff members occasionally have difficulty gaining access to the rooms that house the tape decks to start and stop the movies.

"On several occasions we've tried to change a movie and just can't get to it; we know it's a problem," Booker said. "We're hoping to be moving the tape decks ... to a more convenient location."

IT will provide technical support for WMTV while SIN does much of the legwork to produce programs and air them.

"This has been a long process in the works for about five years," Booker said. "We're hoping to get everything up and running soon."