Facilities offer hands-on learning
The Jandoli School of Communication is housed in the John J. Murphy Professional Building on the west side of campus.
The building includes classrooms, academic offices and a 432-seat auditorium for guest speakers and special presentations.
The school is also home to facilities that let students learn by doing:
- The Koop Broadcasting Lab, a newsroom and fully functioning television production studio located in the Murphy Professional Building;
- SBU-TV Sports' Production Facility, a network-level television production center located next to the Reilly Center, home of our Division I men's and women's basketball teams, the Bonnies. The facility is used to telecast home games.
Bob Koop Broadcast Lab
Earn the career experience and adrenaline rush of a lifetime in the Bob Koop Broadcast lab at St. Bonaventure University.
In this section of the Jandoli School of Communication, students excel individually and as a news team, working on deadlines and production assignments to create a full-speed broadcast show on SBU-TV, Channel 9. The student-run broadcast streams LIVE weekly and reaches thousands of Spectrum cable viewers and SBU-TV digital subscribers.
Journalism lecturer Anna Bulszewicz, an award-winning broadcast journalist and news leader, is the program’s director. A 2007 graduate of the Jandoli School, Bulszewicz puts students on the path to career excellence by implementing teamwork combined with the latest TV news research, so students receive real-time experience before they begin their careers in a workplace newsroom.
In the Koop Lab you’ll receive one-on-one news training in all roles of a functioning newsroom. Students step into every news and production role in order to formally understand how a real TV station operates.
Additionally, SBU-TV is a competing campus and community news source on social media. The latest news research reveals news consumers are more apt to receive news briefs from their cell phones and other mobile devices. Koop Lab broadcast students not only produce a competitive broadcast TV product but must maintain and create content for our website and social media sites.
A student, digital content manager creates social media content deadlines to urgently inform our social subscribers. These public platforms are stellar teaching tools, providing an unmatched hands-on experience that generates professionalism and accountability.
What we work with in the Koop Lab
SBU-TV’s facilities include a professional news set and anchor desk, connected to a separate control room. More than 50 digital camcorders and DSLRs are available for use by enrolled students. Twelve AVID Media Composer editing workstations are used for production.
Modern newsroom and production software and digital on-screen graphics machines are also in the Koop Lab. The program is managed by award-winning broadcast personalities/professionals who worked successfully as TV news and sports journalists in different parts of the country.
The lab is named for, and dedicated to the memory of, the late Bob Koop, a long-time anchor on WIVB-TV Channel 4 News in Buffalo.
TV Production Facility
Imagine yourself doing play-by-play of Division I college spots on live television for hundreds of thousands of viewers on TV sports network.
Picture yourself directing or producing a tournament basketball game, providing replays, doing courtside interviews, running a camera, or providing audio or graphics for telecasts.
It's all being done by SBU-TV Sports, courtesy of the our network-level TV production facility.
This 48-foot, 40-ton unit once sat on wheels and was hauled from site to site to televise major league sports, and was even used to produce the Academy Awards. Today, it's permanently parked on our campus, next to the Reilly Center and its 4,000-seat basketball arena, home of the Bonnies, our Division I men's and women's basketball teams.
You'll learn to present journalism on the fly: live telecasts of basketball, baseball, soccer, lacrosse and other Division I sporting events. You'll also get the chance to produce shows about sports and public affairs.
You'll learn in workshops from men and women who have won Emmys for their work at CBS, NBC, Fox and ESPN.
SBU-TV Sports Rate Card