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Students help viewers following state DTV tests

January 26, 2009

North Carolina television viewers flooded the School of Communications with phone calls Thursday as Elon students manned a call center to answer questions about a nationwide conversion to digital television. Regional stations alerted viewers to the DTV change on Feb. 17, 2009, with two “soft tests” that interrupted regular programming for people who rely on antennas to get reception.

Future of information tackled in WT Phoenix Futurama trivia challenge

January 24, 2009

What is the Phoenix Futurama? It’s a trivia contest tied to the future of information and communication technologies. Nearly 90 students from four different winter term courses with communications themes and a futures focus gathered together Jan. 22 to enjoy competing in this test of their knowledge.