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WECU-TV was the official (commercial) television station of East Carolina University, located in Greenville North Carolina. It was created on July 1, 1954 to help tell the story of the young college then named East Carolina Teachers College (ECTC). ECU was "made a regional university effective July 1, 1967, and assumed its present name, East Carolina University." The station was originally housed on the Main Campus near the School of Education. It had a small studio with two TK-11 RCA broadcast cameras and four Bell and Howell field cameras and a large black and white processing/editing lab combo and a low-wattage transmission antenna located on campus.

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  • WECU-TV was the official (commercial) television station of East Carolina University, located in Greenville North Carolina. It was created on July 1, 1954 to help tell the story of the young college then named East Carolina Teachers College (ECTC). ECU was "made a regional university effective July 1, 1967, and assumed its present name, East Carolina University." The station was originally housed on the Main Campus near the School of Education. It had a small studio with two TK-11 RCA broadcast cameras and four Bell and Howell field cameras and a large black and white processing/editing lab combo and a low-wattage transmission antenna located on campus. (en)
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  • WECU-TV was the official (commercial) television station of East Carolina University, located in Greenville North Carolina. It was created on July 1, 1954 to help tell the story of the young college then named East Carolina Teachers College (ECTC). ECU was "made a regional university effective July 1, 1967, and assumed its present name, East Carolina University." The station was originally housed on the Main Campus near the School of Education. It had a small studio with two TK-11 RCA broadcast cameras and four Bell and Howell field cameras and a large black and white processing/editing lab combo and a low-wattage transmission antenna located on campus. The new offices and studio (in the area of the Brody School of Medicine) were completed in early 1972 along with formalized FCC licensing to create the nation's first university (commercial)/public television duopoly with WUNK-TV, the University of North Carolina Television PBS satellite affiliate, now 25 (PSIP) 23 (UHF). With shared staff, equipment the stations created short documentaries for UNC-TV and starting in 1974, served the needs of the new medical college. Students were allowed to work via work study program and held numerous positions at the station. The station remained in the same location until January 1, 2010. The general manager was hired away by the nation's third largest news website in 2008 and the station manager/sales manager died from cancer in 2009. Both positions were state of North Carolina jobs, so WECU-TV was forced to close because of severely lowered tax revenues brought on by the great recession. All university stations were closed by 2014 with some being repurposed for teaching such as WNCP-TV. Central control for WUNK-TV programming is now located in the UNC-TV headquarters and the current general manager is really an antenna engineer (en)
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