With newspapers still declining, people are relying on technology for their news more heavily than ever.
This is no exception in higher education, especially in college broadcast studios.
The technology available in this day and age offers bigger and better opportunities for colleges’ broadcast studios, such as being able to shoot film for HD video, working hands-on in a mock studio space, or acting as a personality on-camera.
One of the largest roles broadcast studios play is a lab space for communications and journalism students to have class in. They give colleges a chance to broaden their curriculum, and serve as an attractive feature for prospective communications and journalism students.
Students can use their college’s broadcast studio to map out and film content for student T.V. stations, news stations, and even provide content for the local stations that are plugged into the student network. They also enable students to run the controls, edit content and store content in digital archives.
Most importantly, broadcast studios shed light on what it’s like to work in an actual broadcast studio.
Derrick Silvestri, TV Studio Manager and University Television Station Advisor at St. Cloud State University says that a good college broadcast studio should bear no difference from an actual broadcast studio as long as it has the right equipment.
“[Students] are going to see the same controller in a production truck, they’re going to see the same graphic systems for nightly news of different production hosts from the keyboards, to the mice, to everything,” he says.
Silvestri says the most significant piece a broadcast studio can offer students is real world experience.
“They’re getting real world experience due to the environment that we’re putting them in,” he says. “The environment is the professional equipment.”
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