In the ever changing age of technology, it is easy to get stranded. However, Greensburg Community High School is going to be far from left behind after the completion of a new state-of-the-art high definition television station.

“With the elimination of study hall, students are needing more elective classes to chose from,” said assistant superintendent Dr. Dennis Goldberg. “Mass communication never was a big program and now we are going to change that in Greensburg.”

The television station was a vision of Dr. Goldberg after a visit to Indiana University’s campus.

“I witnessed how students were benefiting and expanding their knowledge through mass communication,” he said. “I brought the idea up to the School Board and they backed the decision to make that vision come true here.”

While in Bloomington, Dr. Goldberg noticed one student who stood out from the rest and wanted him to come and set the entire station up and be the expert. That person was former Greensburg resident and IU grad Jesse Wallace.

“When I attended Greensburg, there was a program called GreenTV,” Wallace said. “I was very active with it and continued my interest while at IU.”

Naturally, when Dr. Goldberg approached Wallace with the opportunity to start a television station, there was no way he was going to turn it down.

“This has been a dream of mine to be able to build a television station from scratch,” Wallace said. “Greensburg Community High School’s station will ultimately become a full running, high definition, state-of-the-art studio. We are going to have the best equipment and training. I enjoy the area and it was interesting coming back and seeing all the changes.”

Not only will the station benefit the high school but the goal is to broadcast educational programming, school news and other programs over the local community cable network.

“We want to get all of the schools involved as much as possible by December,” Wallace said. “We’ll have everything running and students trained by the end of September.”

One thing stressed by both Dr. Goldberg and Wallace was, the School Board members were the ones who made it come true.

“The Greensburg Community School Board was really enthused about making this possible,” Wallace said and Dr. Goldberg agreed. “Everything we’ve envisioned, the School Board approved.”

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