Big Country News 435 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 High schools and colleges often provide small newscasts broadcasted or online, and their production is often unpleasing to watch due to budget concerns (I.E. The graphics are templates from online and the 'anchors' can't read worth a damn). I want to compile a list of both good and bad school newscasts, for the record. Here's my contribution: Texas Student TV's 'KVR News' - The University of Texas's operation. They use SAM's WIS-TV Package with slightly unpleasing graphics. The anchors and reporters are fine. Kent State University's TV2 - They have a wonderful in-house graphics package and use SAM's Aerial. The presentation is wonderful and looks better than what some stations (*cough* WJZY *cough*) call newscasts. Ocean City TV - I found this operation through the NMSA. They ran out of some school on the east coast, and used SAM's Focus News. I can't find their website anymore, so they may be defunct. Paw Paw's News 5 - Paw Paw Public Schools has a wonderful newscast ran by TVNT user DextonNova. The graphics and production are great. I think they were going to go to SAM for a package, but I haven't heard back. There are more, and I'm asking for your help!* *If a University owns a commercial TV station (Ex: KOMU-TV), it doesn't necessarily count. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13364-the-good-and-bad-of-school-newscasts/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weeters 1916 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Penn State's Centre County Report comes to mind. VDO graphics, SAM's Areal, a Devlin set. Can't get much better than that! http://psucommedia.com/centre-county-report Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13364-the-good-and-bad-of-school-newscasts/#findComment-99634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanewsguy 511 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 High schools and colleges often provide small newscasts broadcasted or online, and their production is often unpleasing to watch due to budget concerns (I.E. The graphics are templates from online and the 'anchors' can't read worth a damn). I want to compile a list of both good and bad school newscasts, for the record. Here's my contribution: Texas Student TV's 'KVR News' - The University of Texas's operation. They use SAM's WIS-TV Package with slightly unpleasing graphics. The anchors and reporters are fine. Kent State University's TV2 - They have a wonderful in-house graphics package and use SAM's Aerial. The presentation is wonderful and looks better than what some stations (*cough* WJZY *cough*) call newscasts. Ocean City TV - I found this operation through the NMSA. They ran out of some school on the east coast, and used SAM's Focus News. I can't find their website anymore, so they may be defunct. Paw Paw's News 5 - Paw Paw Public Schools has a wonderful newscast ran by TVNT user DextonNova. The graphics and production are great. I think they were going to go to SAM for a package, but I haven't heard back. There are more, and I'm asking for your help!* *If a University owns a commercial TV station (Ex: KOMU-TV), it doesn't necessarily count. 1. I don't know why you are judging the quality of the anchoring. Come on, they're students. It's not like they're network news or anything. Don't expect them to be perfect. As I attend community college, I don't have a TV station on campus. And in high school we had a video tech club but no school newscast or anything (the principal wanted one but there was no money in the budget). I think it's rare for a high school to have a newscast, much less a radio station (yes there's some out there). They are more prevalent in college because they there's more funding for it (yep that's where your tuition's going...). Even then not all colleges have them... 2. Ocean City TV is now "Current OC". It was (still is, different name) run by Ocean City High School in NJ. website: http://www.oc-tv.org/ They were a weekly broadcast until a couple of years ago. They went to a monthly magazine type format (and changed the name in the process) but now look like they are biweekly and have restored the old format (but kept the current name). I really liked when they had Sean Caldwell VO and Elevation as the theme music. Then they went to the monthly format and started to look more like "morning announcements" than a newscast. When they went back to the newscast format they began using the old CN8 Philadelphia theme music. If you want to watch old episodes they post them on "School Tube". 3. I don't like the butchered graphics the Penn State station uses... I can try looking around and finding more. The newscasts are actually pretty interesting to watch. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13364-the-good-and-bad-of-school-newscasts/#findComment-99649 Share on other sites More sharing options...
caliwxdude 254 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Check out Arizona State University's Cronkite NewsWatch. They recently built a new building specifically for the journalism school, off-campus in downtown Phoenix, which included a new newsroom and studio for Cronkite NewsWatch. You can see some photos of the newsroom, studio and control room shortly after the building opened in 2008 on this Flickr page, and it's amazing. ASU has a stellar program and it makes me wish I went there. The University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications produces two daily newscasts at 5 and 6pm on the university-owned PBS member station, WUFT. It's pretty impressive for a college operation. On the lower end of the spectrum: my alma mater, San Jose State's Update News. Severe budget cuts in the California State University system over the past few years and the university's focus on the newspaper/magazine side of journalism pretty much screwed this program over. I heard through the grapevine that they've redone the studio (which hadn't changed for probably 30 years), but it looks like the class may have been cut altogether this year due to low enrollment. Sad decline. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13364-the-good-and-bad-of-school-newscasts/#findComment-99656 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leavellebrett 85 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 Penn State's Centre County Report comes to mind. VDO graphics, SAM's Areal, a Devlin set. Can't get much better than that! http://psucommedia.com/centre-county-report I have toured WPSU. It's 90 minutes from my house. Penn State has an AMAZING multimedia, television, radio program. Just awesome. I toured the station last year, one week before the two professors in charge of Centre County Report were flying to Las Vegas to accept the award for best college newscast of 2013 in the country. Penn State really sets the bar high. Even their set is great. They had bought it on sale from some station in Florida, I should've asked what station, because they weren't using it anymore. I often watch CCR because it's comparable to WTAJ and WJAC in their quality. In the next few days I'll make a topic more specific than this. To share what certain colleges do in their journalism programs... other than just broadcast quality. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13364-the-good-and-bad-of-school-newscasts/#findComment-99671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyrannical bastard 3955 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 WOUB, the PBS station in Athens, Ohio (owned by Ohio University) has a daily student-run newscast called "Newswatch". The mainly-student staff is mostly comprised by students of Ohio University, but is run independently of the Scripps College of Communication, and directly by WOUB itself. They recently upgraded to full high definition with a Grass Valley Ignite system and several years back, installed a set that was used by the ABC station in Columbia, MO. It's always had a rotating staff of producers, anchors, and reporters, but has turned out a large number of journalists across the country over the years.. The journalism school used to produce a cable news show called "Athens Midday" that served as a sequence for Journalism Students...it was done away with when Ohio University switched to semesters in 2012. The class required everyone in it to do EVERYTHING from producing to anchoring....even doing weather and sports. The show was originally based in the basement of Scripps Hall (then the home of the Journalism program), but was moved to the same studio that Newswatch originated from in WOUB's building, but maintained a separate control room (which is now where WOUB's Ignite is based). Also.....It was on this very program that this clip originated... Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/13364-the-good-and-bad-of-school-newscasts/#findComment-99673 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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