ISU9 has found a new home.

The campus television station will move into the Communications Building, scheduled to open the week of Sept. 13.

The station, along with the Instruction Technology Center and the video portion of University Extension, had been housed in the Exhibit Hall, which is being torn down to make room for Howe Hall, the new engineering building.

“Anyone who has been inside Exhibit Hall knows it is old and in pretty bad shape,” said Dan Mundt, temporary instructor of journalism and mass communication. “Thousands of students have learned in there, but it was time to get out.”

Mundt said many factors came into play with finding the new location.

“There was a need for a centralized TV production area on campus,” he said. “The Communications Building was a logical choice.”

Two new studios in the building will be roughly the same size and will be equipped with identical technology.

One studio will be used by ISU9; the other will be shared by ITC and Extension.

ISU9’s new studio will be completely digital, making the station one of three digital stations at public universities in the nation.

“Even with the new technology, it won’t cause a change in the teaching or the learning,” Mundt said. “If anything, it will make it easier. The change is on the inside and the way the information is transmitted.”

The new building, which housed television station WOI 5 until four years ago, is located north of the Armory and west of the Molecular Biology Building. The university came into possession of the building after a lease with WOI expired in 1998.

“WOI retained the right to lease the building for four years when they vacated the building after being bought from ISU by Capital Communications,” said Steve Coon, associate professor of journalism and mass communication. “When their lease was up in 1998, the use of the building reverted back to ISU.”

Money for the building renovation came from the sale of WOI 5 and from donations from each of the groups. ITC engineers also are doing all the wiring. Usable equipment from Exhibit Hall was donated to the new studios.

The other components of ITC also will be moving into a new wing added onto the Communications Building.

Until its opening, ISU9 will be housed in the Anderson TV Laboratory in the basement of Hamilton Hall.