The Georgia Tech Cable Network (GTCN) is the on-campus television provider of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta , Georgia , United States. Established in 1995, GTCN serves the on-campus buildings, especially Georgia Tech Housing.
7-613: They have a 123-channel lineup, 24 of which are HD, and two of which (channels 20 and 21) they generate content for themselves. In particular, they have a show called "Ramblin' Research" that shows professors' research and personal interests. In addition, they show many recent movies. The network is also part of the Georgia Tech emergency notification system . Dish Network provides most of GTCN's non-original programming. The service also rebroadcasts several Atlanta-area high-definition channels. The source of this high-definition content
14-726: Is not Dish Network; it is instead taken directly from local over-the-air broadcasts. GTCN also has one of the widest selections of international channels of cable networks in the United States. The Georgia Tech Cable Network was initially established in 1995, and had 54 channels. There was an interactive show called TutorVision, where Georgia Tech students called in questions to be worked live on TV. Other past shows include Tech Shorts and Dr. Staff, humor shows about life at Georgia Tech. GTCN used to broadcast WREK-FM , Georgia Tech's student-run radio station, on channel 17 from 2003 to early 2009. According to then general manager, Trey Rhodes,
21-468: The areas serviced by the PSAP) in order to facilitate the effective use of one-way emergency notifications One click notification is a method of clicking one button within a mobile app or emergency notification platform to initiate the dissemination of a message. An emergency notification system is an example of one-click multimodal notification. Organizations use a one-click notification service to trigger
28-679: The common town siren systems that are used to alert for tornadoes, tsunami , air-raid , etc., are examples of emergency notification systems. Many local governments and organizations that hold large, public events adopt emergency notification systems to be able to notify large groups of people in the event of an emergency. For example, in 2013 the Dallas YMCA Thanksgiving " turkey trot " race, with over 40,000 participants, implemented an alert system called RedFlag. Most major telecommunications providers offer Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) access to their subscriber data (in
35-490: The creation of three more HD channels on the network. This service was sunset in Fall of 2022. Emergency notification system An emergency notification system is a method of facilitating the one-way dissemination or broadcast of messages to one or many groups of people, alerting them to a pending or existing emergency. The Emergency Notification System (ENS) was created by Dialogic Communication Corporation (DCC) in
42-536: The early 1980s. DCC, including its patent portfolio, was purchased by Motorola Solutions as part of their 2018 acquisition of Airbus DS Communications. Emergency notification systems constitute a (one-way communication) subset of the types of systems described by the broader term emergency communication systems which includes systems that provide one-way and two-way communications, between emergency communications staff, first responders, and impacted individuals. Mass automated dialing services such as Reverse 9-1-1 , and
49-414: The station was “never really notified about [GTCN taking us off the channel], no warning beforehand at all." The station management had an agreement with GTCN that they would be receiving another channel for their new HD content, but instead were demoted to background music for the channel guide. Carol Pulliam, the general manager of GTCN, defended this decision by stating that demoting WREK-FM would allow for
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