According to the Arrowhead High Schools AHS TV webpage, “AHS-TV is a student run and student produced news and information service for the students, staff and community of Arrowhead High School in Hartland, WI.”

AHS TV was run by video production and art teacher Matt Luebke.  He also made the decision to cancel the program due to a lack of out of class participation by the 2013-2014 video production class.  This decision was made at the beginning of second semester of the 2013-2014 school year.  This will be the first video production class to not do AHS TV.

“[I could] not get students to actually go out and shoot [their] pieces outside of classtime, or they would forget the piece altogether,” says Luebke.

AHS TV was composed mostly of student made pieces related to anything Arrowhead.  Pieces ranged from coverage on Arrowhead’s Hawkfest, to the homecoming assembly and to study tips and class overviews.

AHS TV also did specials on important events happening around Arrowhead.  Students covered events like homecoming, prom, or a state football game; however, which events were covered depended on what the video production students chose.

Since all pieces were done by Arrowhead video production students, if a piece was forgotten or incomplete, the show could not be filmed.

The 2013 AHS TV season, with student made made works, will remain on http://new.livestream.com/arrowheadschools where they can be streamed for free.  However, new pieces and shows will not be produced.

“Video production is now doing more creative pieces like stop-frame animation,”  says Luebke.

Video production will now focus on pieces that can be completed during class time only.

Previous video production student senior Sierra Penella says, “It was fun to do, but it’s not like anyone watched it.”

Penella says she enjoyed doing the recording, filming, and editing, but she says she felt that no one watched the show, so her effort was not really rewarded.

Senior Griffin Barnard said he’s okay with AHS TV being gone.

“It’s completely done! Gone!” says Luebke.