A 30-minute television show featuring UW-Madison reporters and hosts will premiere Thursday on the Big Ten Network.
The Wheel"" is a magazine-style show with stories about university research and programs. At the beginning of each episode, two student hosts will spin a wheel to determine which story will air.
Story topics include ""First Wave,"" the first university spoken-word program on campus, the Langdon Street Neighborhood Watch and UW-Madison nanotechnology research.
According to Peter Kleppin, the UW-Madison Big Ten project manager, the wheel gives the show a unique style.
""We didn't want to take the students and make them look like little anchor people,"" Kleppin said in a statement. ""We wanted them to have fun and be themselves and reflect the intelligence and the attitude that's here at Madison.""
""The Wheel"" is part of UW-Madison's allotted 60 hours of non-athletic programming, which is given to each Big Ten school annually.
Thursday's premiere at 4 p.m. is produced by University Communications and video production company John Roach Projects. The second episode airs Nov. 6 at 3 p.m.
