Seven different departments make up CalTV: four on-camera and three behind-the-scenes. They include:
On-Camera
- News
- Sports
- Entertainment
- Comedy
Behind-the-Scenes
- Post-Production
- Cinematography
- Business/Advertising/Marketing (BAM)
At first, the station produced a single show focusing exclusively on news events (local, national and international) but produced in a citizen journalism style. The show featured brief backgrounds on stories introduced by CalTV journalists followed by opinion from Berkeley students and professors.
With time, CalTV's content expanded into sports, arts and entertainment. "The CalTV Sports Highlight" began in 2006 and included coverage of California football, baseball, and water polo. The semester of Spring 2007, "The CalTV Show", an off-beat news show featuring commentary on student issues, began airing. "The CalTV Show" has been renamed "The CalBear Report."
"Back and Forth", included in the CalTV sports programming, resembles ESPN's Pardon the Interruption and features banter on sports related topics. "Sports Shorts" features updates on recent teams in action, as well as interviews with students on Sproul Plaza. "Bear in Mind" covers off-the-field stories on student athletes and teams.
CalTV debuted its Entertainment programming in 2010 when the former Music Department officially changed its name to Entertainment.