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Wayne State University (WSU) announced deployment of OSTN on a Linux platform. OSTN is the only global 24/7 student-produced television network. Wayne State receives OSTN’s all-digital, student-produced programming via Internet2 and delivers it around the clock on CATV to more than 1,000 viewers in its new residence hall complex. “OSTN offers another opportunity for WSU students to share experiences with students from other universities. With the OSTN student-programming channel, our students can get a look at what their peers in the field of student-produced television are doing. In the future, the interest generated may result in WSU submitting content to OSTN as well,” said John Camp, Chief Information Officer at Wayne State University. “We look forward to the possibility of expanding our relationship with OSTN.” “We applaud the research and development efforts of our colleagues at WSU to deliver OSTN on Linux,” said Prashant Chopra, OSTN Chief Executive Officer. “By leveraging WSU’s work and contributions to the OSTN commu¬nity, other universities sharing WSU’s commitment to support Open Source computing now will be able to more rapidly and reliably deploy OSTN at their institutions.” OSTN features a variety of programming genres ranging from morning talk shows like “Good Morning Emerson” from ECTV at Emerson College, to soap operas like “Ivory Tower” from HRTV at Harvard University, to student films from Yale University, to animations from the Film/Video/Digital Program at Duke University, to news shows like “Front and Center” from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “WSU chose to develop an OSTN digital program receiver using Linux as an operating system for a couple reasons: Our goal was to build a computer system we felt was reliable enough to run 24/7 in an unattended environment, with an absolute minimum amount of staff support,” said David Fleig, project manager with the Computing and Information Technology Division at Wayne State University.