Do you want a chance to feel like a news reporter, or have the opportunity to cover local events and people who have captured your attention? MC-TV can give you that rush of covering news and then formatting it into an actual news story.  

MC-TV is a two part concept show that lets students experience doing real television work, by producing a segment to be viewed by an actual audience. The show also attempts to get students, mainly CATA (Communication and Theater Arts) and public relations majors, actively involved in the progression and production of the show.

MC-TV has evolved from a class project four years ago to a now half news/half sports short television show. Chris Goble, faculty advisor of MC-TV, is “amazed at what we were able to do to it”. The show now is run weekly on Wednesdays and has two news anchors and one sports anchor. The current news anchor is senior Ashleigh Tweed, with the second spot open to anyone interested in the job. Tweed is also the news producer,  working alongside senior and executive producer Holly Butz. The sports anchor and news producer is senior Dan Campione.

There is also a behind the scenes opportunity to help in the process of airing and directing the filming of the episodes for the news show. Currently, senior and technical director Traci Ratliff is responsible for cueing the anchors and directing cameras during tapings along with her assistant, junior Jennifer Tunberg. 

MC-TV is offered as a workshop course and is a class that helps students gain media experience and work with real deadlines, which differs from regular classroom projects, as students in the workshop have their homework broadcasted for everyone to see. This also gives the students a better understanding of what it really takes to get a story to air. Sophomore Stephanie Arrowsmith, who has been involved with the class for three semesters, feels that “MC-TV has been a very good experience for me and has also made me enjoy the behind the scenes part of production that you usually do not get to see. Hopefully, I can apply everything I learned from this class in helping me with my future”.

Goble says his favorite part of being involved with MC-TV is the “charge that comes with doing a show and watching it air. I get to see the whole process of building up to the show and then watch it actually happen.”

Involvement in MC-TV is possible by taking the “CATA 116 Television Workshop” class offered every semester. To view the show weekly, you can visit the MC-TV website by going to the quick link function and clicking on the WMCR/MC-TV link. For further information, you can contact Chris Goble at cgoble@monm.edu.

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