SBU-TV is now broadcast on YouTube. New webcasts are posted every Friday during the semester.
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What's New in the Koop
The university's Jandoli School has been given a network level television sports production truck by Game Creek Video, becoming the only school in the country with such a facility.
"In 2000, we bought a truck called Red that was originally built by Unitel," explained Game Creek Video President Pat Sullivan. "It's a well thought-out truck that's exceptionally well designed, but it's analog SD, so we weren't having any luck selling it.
We had a conversation with Mark Wolff, (whose son Alex is a senior in the Jandoli School.) I know that St. Bonaventure has a pretty active TV-production program. I contacted them, and the truck was on its way." Mark Wolff is a producer for CBS Sports, doing NFL football and NCAA basketball among other events.
In Game Creek's early years, the company, headquarted in Hudson, NH, supplied production trucks for many Atlantic 10 Conference sports events involving St. Bonaventure.
"We were at St. Bonas a lot, and people were always really grateful to us," said Sullivan. "Trucks are meant to be used, not sit dormant. It was not a difficult decision."
Built in 1988, the 48-foot double-expando analog SD truck was once one of the signature mobile units in the country, taking on big-ticket entertainment shows like the Academy Awards.
The equipment on the truck includes a Grass Valley 3000 switcher, four hard Ikegami cameras with Canon lenses, three hand-held Ikegami cameras, four Sony W75 Beta decks, a Yamaha 3500 audio console, a Chyron Infinit, and an Abekas DVEous.
As a former freelance producer and director - well as a long-time head of the Buffalo Sabres' television operations - J/MC professor Paul Wieland worked in Red, among other production trucks, before leaving the road life seven years ago to teach at St. Bonaventure. He is currently working on design of two new courses using the truck as an instructional tool.
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The Koop Broadcasting Lab
The Koop Broadcasting Lab is a news room and fully functioning television production studio located in the Russell J. Jandoli School of Journalism/Mass Communication. It's named for, and dedicated to the memory of, the late Bob Koop, a longtime anchor on WIVB-TV Channel 4 News in Buffalo.
Students learn television news production in a modern digital setting in the Koop Lab. The base course is Video Production, which technical skills in videography and editing are first taught as well as storytelling using the medium. Broadcast Reporting follows, a course that explores writing for the medium and production of actual TV news and feature stories. The final course in the sequence is Seminar in Broadcast Journalism, which students produce a weekly newscast that airs on SBU-TV and on cable systems throughout Western New York.
The Koop Lab facilities include a professional news set and anchor desk connected to a separate control room. Digital camcorders and eight AVID digital editing systems are used for production as well as EZ-News modern news production software and a digital on-screen graphics machine.
Open daily, under the direction of Lab Director Mary Beth Garvin as well as several student lab assistants, the facility is available to all J/MC students and many produce special projects on its equipment.
Semester In The Newsroom
Semester in the Newsroom is a new program in the School of Journalism/Mass Communication. Students who complete the prerequisites will spend the second semester of their junior year working and learning television news production and reporting in the Koop Lab. Students who complete the Semester in the Newsroom will earn 15 academic credits, all as journalism electives. They will not be required to take any other courses during the semester.
Working and learning as a team, students will be responsible for a newscast each day classes are in session. This newscast will be aired on SBU-TV Channel 9 serving the St. Bonaventure community and be available to the 250,000 homes served by the Time Warner cable system.
During the semester, students will be assigned various newsroom and reporting roles on a weekly basis, learning and perfecting skills such as news producing, sports producing, news and sports anchoring and field reporting.
Students will work as television journalists both on campus, in Olean and Allegany and along the Southern Tier.