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'''The Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech''' (EMCVT) is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit governing body over student mass media organizations of the [[Virginia Tech]] campus.  The EMCVT board of directors is made up of Virginia Tech faculty and staff, students, and members of the [[Blacksburg, Virginia]] community.  As the parent company, EMCVT owns the copyrights on all media produced by its divisions.

== History ==
EMCVT is a successor to the old '''Student Media Board''', and was formed in 1997. Several seperate forces lead to it's creation:
* desire among student media organizations for more freedom
* Several missteps by the [[Collegiate Times]] and other organizations in the Media Board, culminating in the '''Director of Buttlicking''' lawsuit
*Confrontations between [[Squires]] facilities personnel and media organization members

In 2003, the structure of the EMCVT was called into question by Virginia House of Delegates member [[w:Robert G. Marshall|Robert G. Marshall]] as a result of content Marshall found objectionable on the ''Sex Talk Live'' aired on [[VTTV]]. Marshall called for university officials to provide more oversight over student media on campus.<ref>http://www.splc.org/news/newsflash.asp?id=681</ref>  Virginia Tech President [[Charles Steger]] responded that he "...approached the idea of prior restraint [of student media] with uneasy caution" and the matter was dropped.

== Divisions ==
* [[Bugle (yearbook)|Bugle]] yearbook
* [[Collegiate Times]] newspaper
* [[Silhouette (literary magazine)|Silhouette]] literary magazine
* [[VTTV|Virginia Tech Television]]
* [[WUVT]] radio

== External links ==
* [http://www.collegemedia.com Main Website]
* [http://www.collegemedia.com/Bylaws.pdf Company Charter Provisions and Bylaws(outdated)]

==References==
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