Harvard-Radcliffe Television (HRTV), another Harvard entrant into broadcasting, enjoyed brief fame with such shows as “Ivory Tower,” a soap opera set at Harvard, which it distributed to Houses via videotape.

The group has been gradually sidelined by a lack of cable access, according to Debra T. Mao ’05, a newscast producer and general assignment reporter for WHRB.

She has higher hopes for the new project.

“I am definitely going to be involved. As a freshman I came in here...I had done a lot of television stuff in high school,” she said. “What I found was an HRTV that wasn’t really with it, so I went to WHRB...but television was my first love.”

John Heyer, an MIT alum who attended the meeting and wants to start a new Boston cable network, said a good student show was long overdue.

“The West, they’re just so far ahead of us. Nothing exists in New England,” Heyer said. “That’s why I’m advocating the new channel.”

Mao agreed that there was a gap in the Harvard media that needed filling.

“The Crimson is very monopolistic in that way, because there’s no broadcast media,” Mao said

And she said student-run WHRB radio, because it has a mostly off-campus audience, is less student-focused than the new TV show will be.

“It’s really in its infant stage. I have gotten a lot of enthusiasm for the project. I’m now getting a lot more help,” Bishop said. “I hope this will be the core, the group that people look back on as starting it all.”