Iowa State’s student-run television station, STV9, is looking for a new home.

The station’s current location, Exhibit Hall, is scheduled for demolition at the end of the school year.

John Eighmey, chairman of the journalism and mass communication department, said the university is committed to finding a new, suitable home for the station. “It is a continuing issue,” he said.

Still, student workers at the station are uneasy about its future.

“If they were going to tear down Hamilton [Hall], they would probably find a place for the Daily before they did it,” STV9 Promotions Director Kristen Durst said. Durst has a long history of involvement at the station.

But Eighmey said there are no plans to shut down STV9.

“No one’s going to unplug STV9,” he said. “It’s an important student resource. I’m sure we’re going to find an appropriate place to maintain and hopefully even improve the studio.”

One possible location for STV9 is the WOI TV building. The lease runs out at the building this year and the university could buy a spot back in it.

“It only makes sense to put a studio in a television studio,” Durst said. “It’s very iffy. It’s not easy just to pick up and move a TV studio.”

Durst will soon succeed Jason Shoultz as producer of Wake Up ISU, Iowa State’s live news program featuring news, weather and sports. The program airs Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8 a.m. and then re-airs at 4 and 6 p.m.

STV9 will go on air next week. They will continue airing from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on cable channel 9. SCOLA, an international news program will complete the 24-hour-a-day schedule.