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MCTV News turns 20 Lunatic coming Mar. 11, 2015 ISSN 2291-2738 Vol. 5 — Issue 10 Kings’ season ends See Page 2 See Page 16 See Page 20 They’re One Krafty family The Richardson family were among the many families that came out to support Morinville’s Kraft Hockeyville bid Mar. 8. The weekly family skate was turned into a promo event with the serving of Kraft Dinner and a group photo. The Top 10 finalists will be announced Mar. 14 during Hockey Night in Canada. - Stephen Dafoe Photo Lessons Instruments Recording DJ & Live Performing Real Estate® New Car Buyers Each Office Independently Owned and Operated Receive a $300 pre-paid gas card with purchase. 780-476-3371 [email protected] Page 1 | Mar. 11, 2015 MorinvilleNews.com | The Morinville News | Page 1 Community brought to you by Right: Morinville Community High School teacher Greg Boutestein sits at the MCTV News desk between two of the studio’s cameras. Below: An MCTV crew member interviews Wayne Gatza at a Morinville for Hockeyville event Sunday afternoon. - Stephen Dafoe Photos MCTV News celebrates 20 years by Stephen Dafoe interest. “We did 10 episodes that first year,” Boutestein said. “After Last week Morinville Community that it just kind of kept going High School teacher Greg Bou- from there. Originally there was testein marked 20 years teach- no course. It was just volunteers. ing at the school. This week he, They came in at lunch and after students and alumni will celebrate school. There was no credit for it.” two decades of MCTV News. The Boutestein said the show re- in-house newscast began a few mained an extracurricular activity weeks after Boutestein began through its first two seasons, but teaching at the then new high became a credit course in season school in 1995. Two decades later three. and the program has seen many But just as the show has crews produce many episodes of evolved from an after-school original content. pastime to a credit course, so too “There were several kids that has the show evolved over the worked in the studio, and they past 20 years in terms of technol- kind of had an idea to do a show,” ogy and content. Boutestein recalled, adding Mark “Back then we thought we Woollven, Allen Gould, Marc were the cat’s brass. To produce Gagnon and Mike LaRocque were a TV show in a high school at that the program’s original crew. “They point [1995] was very much an were the genesis of the show.” odd occurrence,” Boutestein said, Originally called MCHS TV, the adding only a couple schools were show was shortened to MCTV, doing anything like it. “For us to morphed to MCTV Live, and con- get there — that was a big deal.” tinues today as MCTV News. What was unique for Morinville was the school broadcasted its show live Studio cameras, lights and a set donated a few years back by Global give to the community through a transmitter the school had. Eventually, the high school students a start in broadcast journalism and related career op- school stopped the community broadcast because of being unable to meet tions while earning credit. CRTC compliance. Though a credit course today, the program began purely out of student In its original iteration, the show was as much student variety show Page 2 | The Morinville News | MorinvilleNews.com Mar. 11, 2015| Page 2 as it was newscast. Today the show is far more planned, scripted and polished. “Back then it was a lot of killing air time. Kids would be on for two minutes juggling balls or whatever,” Boutestein said. “Recorded segments weren’t as big a part of the show. Now it’s more structured, and that’s been the focus.” As the 20th anniversary has approached, students have been reviewing the MCTV archives, seeing segments produced before they were born and learning the history of the program and the students who made it happen. Some of that content will find its way into a Karen Cust (left) made special MCTV News broadcast Mar. 12, two days her 71st blood donor visit after the program’s 20th anniversary. at the Mar. 3 Blood Donor Boutestein said he had intended only to men- Clinic at the Morinville tion the anniversary in passing, but student Rose Rendez-Vous Centre. VanBrabent suggested doing an anniversary ret- rospective show. “It’s kind of beginning to evolve into a highlight show,” Boutestein said. “Were go- ing to show some highlights of the past 20 years, and it looks like we’re going to have some former crew members and hosts coming out.” Alumni will participate in two ways. Some are producing segments in their current locations in the province and as far away as England. Others are making the trip back to the high school to do some work on air. “It’s kind of nice to see the response from the alumni,” Boutestein said. “The response has been fairly overwhelming. It’s cool that these people Kathy Chalcraft (right) that did the show 20 years ago — they still have donated blood for the 15th a place in their heart for it. They’re all profes- time Mar. 3. sionals living their lives, and they’re taking a day off work to come back to their old high school. I The next clinic dates are think it speaks to the fun they had doing it.” May 19, July 14, Sept.15, Twenty years later, Boutestein is still having and Dec. 8. fun teaching new crews the business. “It’s still a blast,” he said. “I’ll keep doing it as For more information on long as I’m here. Hopefully at that time when I donotaing blood, visit www. leave the building it’ll continue on. We’re Morin- blood.ca ville’s first and only TV station.” Over the past weekend MCTV News crew members came out to Morinville’s Francophone - Lucie Roy Photos Heritage Day event at the cultural centre and to the arena on Sunday for the Morinville for Hock- eyville skate. MCTV News segments can be watched on Youtube. 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