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Annenberg TV News

(213) 740-3847
(213) 821-8477 (news tips, assignment desk)
(213) 740-0755 (FAX)
Email: atvn@usc.edu
Follow ATVN on Facebook and Twitter
www.atvn.org

Annenberg TV News (ATVN) is USC’s award-winning, student-run, multimedia television news operation. ATVN students produce live nightly newscasts shown campus-wide and create innovative news and sports multimedia coverage for the Web. ATVN’s aspiring journalists and leaders develop skills in newsgathering and production while covering campus, local, national and international stories of importance to the USC community. Away from commercial influences, students resolve the ethical dilemmas of daily news and obtain the hands-on experience needed to work in the professional world. Students from all majors work in ATVN’s all-digital newsroom and studio. ATVN graduates work in local network and multimedia operations all over the country. Visit www.atvn.org and watch our live newscasts on Trojan Vision.

IMPACT

(213) 740-3927
Email: impact@usc.edu

IMPACT is a half-hour television news magazine program produced by USC Annenberg broadcast journalism students. Students, with no prior experience necessary, learn to pitch ideas, research, shoot, write and edit their own stories. The award-winning program airs on Trojan Vision and more than 40 cable systems throughout Southern California. Visit our Web site (www.uscimpact.org) to subscribe to our podcast. You can also find us on YouTube.

If you are interested in participating in this program, call (213) 740-3927.

Radio Station

(213) 740-1483
Email: info@kscr.org
www.kscr.org

KSCR is the official campus radio station. It is the student source for music, news, sports and information. The radio station broadcasts on 1560-AM and also transmits via the Internet (www.kscr.org) from its location on the first floor of Marks Hall. The hotline can be reached at (213) 740-1483.

If you would like to work at the station, there are opportunities in sales, engineering, public relations and programming. Students who wish to become DJs can visit www.kscr.org for an application. Call (213) 740-1483 or email info@kscr.org for more information.

Trojan Vision Television

Executive Director: Don Tillman
Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts
(213) 743-2731
3131 S. Figueroa St.
Email: info@trojanvision.com
www.trojanvision.com

Trojan Vision is a student-operated television station located on the University Park campus. The station first aired programming on September 15, 1997, through a grant from the USC Annenberg Center. In the spring of 1999, a grant from Hollywood director Robert Zemekis (”Back to the Future,” “Forrest Gump”) provided funding for a state-of-the-art digital training facility, the Robert Zemekis Center for Digital Arts, where Trojan Vision operates.

In 2006, Trojan Vision was invited to join the USC School of Cinematic Arts. The station provides its staff with a hands-on learning experience in all areas of television, as well as the opportunity for student work to be seen across the city and beyond. In addition to volunteering for the station, students may receive class credit for working at Trojan Vision through CTPR 409, an upper-level cinema course available to all students for 2 or 4 units.

The station, which airs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, is an important training ground for students from all USC programs. Programs are produced exclusively by students and are broadcast to the entire campus community on Channel 8, reaching more than 29,000 students and 18,000 faculty and staff daily. Trojan Vision reaches more than two million homes with availability throughout Los Angeles on LA@36, on the Rancho Palos Verdes, California cable network and on the Open Student Television Network.

The station also provides programming across the globe 24 hours a day through live and on-demand Internet streaming at www.trojanvision.com.

Trojan Vision’s production house, the Production Group, also offers Trojan Vision students the opportunity to work on paid television shoots for clients both inside and outside the university. Previous shoots have included Pete Carroll’s press conference for ESPN and the Academy of Television and Arts and Science’s Student Emmy’s telecast. All students in the Production Group have gone through a training process that teaches them to use industry-standard equipment and prepares them to enter the workforce with real world experience.


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