Video Server

YSTV had requested a video server for 2-3 years before it was finally passed in the summer of 2003. Begun by Kevin Bowman, and completed in autumn 2003 by Dave Baker, this remains at the heart of YSTV's broadcast programming. Controlled first by the BBC Schedula and now Spider and SchedSeven, vidserv plays out and records YSTV's live and recorded output.

It's fair to say it has revolutionised YSTV and the perception of it amongst students. It has changed the station from primarily one that rebroadcasts other networks' programming with occasional live student TV inserts to one that shows wall-to-wall original productions.