2008 Woodie Awards
Broadcast program earns CNN Newssource Award
Shaun Logan
Issue date: 9/4/08 Section: News
LBCC was awarded the CNN Newssource Award of Excellence, which allows the LBCC news station to air CNN shows.
The broadcast news program at LBCC recently finished 2nd in the nation behind Auburn University and has placed 4th the past two years in the college Emmys for children's programming behind USC's graduate department.
LBCC has beaten many other universities whose budgets are as much as three times that of LBCC's.
LBCC student Chris Williams said "I think it's cool for us, being a Community College, to beat out universities. It says we're definitely doing something right."
The broadcast news program at LBCC is run by Robert Hersh, a director who has won multiple Emmys.
His credits include more than 50 notable programs including "Good Morning America", "Best Damn Sports Show Period", the 1984 Olympics, the "$100,000 Pyramid" and more than 1,000 "Geraldo" shows.
Hersh said, "We have better equipment than almost every other college. USC doesn't even have the same quality of jibs (a camera attached to a boom device with a counterweight and camera controls on the other end) that we use."
LBCC students Lily Nuno and Jasmin Purifoy were offered internships on the Academy Awards and were listed as production assistants in the credits. Nuno, a USC graduate who returned to college to take broadcasting classes at LBCC, has received multiple job offers as a result of her experience.
Hersh said, "We use real equipment from real Hollywood productions. That's what its all about. We make real television here."
Two classes introduce students to broadcast newswriting. RTV 30 teaches students to write and produce a news piece for the campus news show. RTV 36, broadcast news production, is a news show run by LBCC students who do all the writing and are the on-camera anchors.
RTV 14, electronic field production, allows students to check out e.n.g. recorders, the same ones used on reality shows like, "Inside Edition" and "60 Minutes" to make short films or music videos in High Definition.
The I E newscast is an award-winning show that covers sports, weather, entertainment and interviews. It is shown every night on the local cable access channels for Lakewood and Long Beach.
Hersh said LBCC's control room is larger than those in Hollywood news broadcasts and the program just received a new audio console that will leave students prepared to work in any television station that they want to.
LBCC student Ashley Parker said, "I knew we had a news broadcast, but I didn't know its on real TV every night. That's really cool to know our news gets seen by the whole city."
The broadcast news program at LBCC recently finished 2nd in the nation behind Auburn University and has placed 4th the past two years in the college Emmys for children's programming behind USC's graduate department.
LBCC has beaten many other universities whose budgets are as much as three times that of LBCC's.
LBCC student Chris Williams said "I think it's cool for us, being a Community College, to beat out universities. It says we're definitely doing something right."
The broadcast news program at LBCC is run by Robert Hersh, a director who has won multiple Emmys.
His credits include more than 50 notable programs including "Good Morning America", "Best Damn Sports Show Period", the 1984 Olympics, the "$100,000 Pyramid" and more than 1,000 "Geraldo" shows.
Hersh said, "We have better equipment than almost every other college. USC doesn't even have the same quality of jibs (a camera attached to a boom device with a counterweight and camera controls on the other end) that we use."
LBCC students Lily Nuno and Jasmin Purifoy were offered internships on the Academy Awards and were listed as production assistants in the credits. Nuno, a USC graduate who returned to college to take broadcasting classes at LBCC, has received multiple job offers as a result of her experience.
Hersh said, "We use real equipment from real Hollywood productions. That's what its all about. We make real television here."
Two classes introduce students to broadcast newswriting. RTV 30 teaches students to write and produce a news piece for the campus news show. RTV 36, broadcast news production, is a news show run by LBCC students who do all the writing and are the on-camera anchors.
RTV 14, electronic field production, allows students to check out e.n.g. recorders, the same ones used on reality shows like, "Inside Edition" and "60 Minutes" to make short films or music videos in High Definition.
The I E newscast is an award-winning show that covers sports, weather, entertainment and interviews. It is shown every night on the local cable access channels for Lakewood and Long Beach.
Hersh said LBCC's control room is larger than those in Hollywood news broadcasts and the program just received a new audio console that will leave students prepared to work in any television station that they want to.
LBCC student Ashley Parker said, "I knew we had a news broadcast, but I didn't know its on real TV every night. That's really cool to know our news gets seen by the whole city."
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