The school has installed five TVs in the main hallways of the school to inform students and staff of current events involving the school.

Assistant principal Jason Bhear is in charge of the setup of the televisions. The school plans to have the TVs up and running by early in the week of Nov. 3, 2014, Bhear said.

“We have just about everything set up, we just need to design how the formatting of news and whatnot will look like when it’s on the TV,” Bhear said.

Sam Barlow High School is also adopting the use of TV to get news out to their students.

Gresham High School was able to get help purchasing the TVs due to a donation from the school’s food company, Sodexo.

“We purchased all of the TVs, but our school’s food company donated a lot of the money that went into buying the TVs,” Principal John Koch said.

There are not many limitations to what the school can do with the televisions.

“We have the capability to update the TVs hourly if we wanted to with things like sport scores, real-time weather and the latest events happening in or around the school,” Koch said. “The only thing we probably can’t do is have a live news broadcast played on the TVs simply because the TVs don’t have the capability to do it however we could tape a broadcast then play it later in the day.”

The school is not planning to buy any more TVs, but does have the ability to do so if they needed.

Steven Turnquist, a sophomore, thinks the TVs will be both useful and irrelevant at the same time.

“I would probably look at the one of the TVs if I missed a day, which would make it useful but I don’t think anyone will really have a reason to look at the TVs unless they were looking for something specific,” Turnquist said. “Maybe things like jokes, or even Blazers scores and upcoming games on the TVs along with the news would most likely make me interested in looking at the TVs more often.”

Whatever the school decides to do with the TVs, Turnquist thinks overall, they will be useful in the long run.

“The TVs are now permanent fixtures and will be here to stay,” Koch said. “In my opinion the TVs will be very useful to staff and students here at Gresham.”