Since its founding in 1977, TUTV has grown exponentially in terms of its membership base, resources, scope of activities, and audience. From 1977 to 1997, TUTV existed primarily as a video club. It had no system for disseminating its programming on a large scale. Instead, TUTV employed a "hand-delivery system" in which copies of TUTV programs were shuttled back and forth between TUTV’s production offices and the Tufts Campus Center.

In the mid-1990s, the Tufts administration entered into a contract with a company called Campuslink. The contract stipulated that Campuslink provide voice, video, and data services to the Tufts residential system. The contract also stipulated the inclusion of a closed-circuited cable channel which could be used by Tufts to deliver audio-visual content to the Tufts community. This later became channel 43.

When channel 43 finally came on-line in 1997, the Tufts administration authorized the Experimental College to oversee its use. At this point, representatives of TUTV stepped in and negotiated an agreement to help manage the content creation process. TUTV was initially broadcast on channel 43, but has since moved to channel 23.

Below you will find a summary of major TUTV events from 1997 to the present:

	Fall 1997	TUTV begins broadcasting for the first time over the Tufts Cable Network ("ResNet"), located on the Tufts Medford Campus.
	Spring 1998	TUTV broadcasts speech by Lady Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of Great Britain. (speech delivered at Tufts for the annual Issam Fares Lecture Series)
	Fall 1998	TUTV launches first news division. The news show is called Perspectives.
	Spring 1999	TUTV upgrades all editing systems to support digital, non-linear editing.
	Fall 1999	TUTV broadcasts speech by Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. (speech delivered at Tufts)
	Spring 2000	TUTV completes construction of its first mobile, live-to-tape production system ("The Cart").
	Fall 2000	TUTV operates its first 24-hour broadcast.
	Spring 2001	TUTV receives $26,000 in grants from the Tufts Community Union Senate and the Tufts Administration; TUTV upgrades all cameras to support digital acquisition; TUTV broadcasts speech by retired four-star general Colin Powell, chairman of America’s Promise and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War. (speech delivered at Tufts for the annual Issam Fares Lecture Series); TUTV launches its first electronic resource booking system ("EZbook").
	Fall 2001	TUTV’s membership exceeds 150; TUTV launches "TUTV Intranet"; TUTV News (formerly Perspectives) broadcasts its first, live news show.
	Spring 2002	Monday, February 4 -- TUTV launches "TUTV Online"; TUTV broadcasts speech by former president William Jefferson Clinton, forty-second president of the United States. (speech delivered at Tufts for the annual Issam Fares Lecture Series); TUTV receives $10,000 grant from the Spaulding-Potter Fund for Innovative Education; Tuesday, April 23 -- Jumbo Love Match broadcasts its 20th episode and becomes TUTV's most watched show ever; Monday, April 29 -- TUTV multicasts its first, real-time video stream over the Tufts Data Network at a data rate of 5.5 Mbps.
	Fall 2005	TUTV updates its website to a user based database driven design. All people who work at TUTV and rent equipment now are given accounts on the TUTV site, allowing them to better communicate, and more easily browse through TUTV's shows, records, and alumni.