Professional production facilities at your fingertips

Our facilities are designed to immerse students in a professional work settings. Our radio broadacst facilities include WRST 90.3FM, a fully functioning WPR-affiliatd radio station, featuring professional studios and remote broadcast capabilities. Titan TV, Time Warner educational channel 10-57, is a multipurpose HD broadcast studio and a digital production studio featuring a student-designed sitcom set.

All facilities include the latest in electronic and digital formats and projection, high end digital and film cameras, and post production lab and suites employing the latest versions of Adobe Creative Suite and Avid Media Composer.

Our program is dedicated to offering students unparalleled access to the tools of the industry. The campus radio and television stations offer exciting, innovative broadcast programming – all conceptualized and produced by students.

Access

Current students wishing to gain access to RTF facilities and equipment must meet one of the following eligibility requirements:

• Enrolled in a RTF course requiring facilities and/or equipment
• Participating in one of the RTF associated students organization
• Working on behalf of the RTF program including production services, work-study or STEP job, or faculty/student collaboration

Students who meet any of these requirements must read the RTF Facilities Policies and Procedures manual and complete the required forms. The manual and forms can be found in our Production Hub.

Post Production Facilities

The following post production labs and editing suites are available to students, faculty and staff in the Radio TV Film department.

Instructional Post-Production Lab (A/C W201)

The Instruction Post-Production Lab is capable of teaching students multiple post-production software in a classroom stetting using a video projection system. All computers utilize a 16T EditShare System for access and store of post-production projects and assets.

The lab includes the following workstations available for student use outside of scheduled class times:

• Avid Media Composer
• Adobe Master Collection
• Ross Inception News and Social Media System
• Final Draft Scriptwriting Software
• MovieMagic Budgeting and Scheduling Software

Edit Suites (A/C W204, W205, W207, W217)

Individual edit suites providing students 24/7 access. Each edit suite houses one editor with all the software listed above and EditShare access.

Rooms provide students with the space and privacy to work collaboratively on projects.

Television Broadcast Facilities

The following broadcast equipment are available to students, faculty and staff in the Radio TV Film department.

Digital Production Studio 2

(A/C W111)

Multiple-purpose studio space capable of professional broadcast studio productions and film setups. Multipurpose apartment set for single-cam and multi-cam production.

• Multi-camera setup with 3 Panasonic HD broadcast cameras expandable to 4
• TelePrompter
• Ion Lighting System
• Studio lighting including tungsten, fluorescent and LED lighting

Master Control (A/C W1)

Master Control houses the equipment and computers for the broadcast facilities, along with film and video equipment for play-out and recording.

• Titan TV Master Control with Cablecast System featuring Carousel Bulletin System and HD VOD Service.
• 360 Systems Image Service 2000, DVD and Satellite playback.
• Playback and recording on 16 mm film, 3/4″, VHS, SVHS, DVD, MiniDV, BetaSP, IMX and AJA KiPro.
• Marshall LCD video monitors and Wohler audio monitors
• Sony HD Monitors

Radio Broadcast Facilities

The following studio spaces and equipment are available to students, faculty and staff in the Radio TV Film department.

Production Studio D (A/C S419)

Professional production studio used for news and sports production and for live announcing of newscasts over WRST.

• Wheatstone IP-12 12-channel IP-network digital console
• Electro-Voice RE-20 microphones
• System 360 Instant Replay digital editor/playback unit
• Adobe Audition multi-track editor
• Gentner SPH10 phone hybrid for news interviews
• HHB BrunIt Plus CD recorder/player
• Insignia ISDVD040924A VHS/DVD player for video auditioning
• Ross Inception newsroom automation/social media publishing system
• ElectroVoice studio monitors

Remote Equipment

• TieLine iMixG3 IP-based remote mixer, Merlin receiver and ReportIt iPhone adapter
• Marti RPT-30 VHF transmitter and RR-50 receiver
• Conex FlipJack FJ500 cellphone-capable phone board/mixer
• Marantz PMD 670 digital flash card recorder
• Marantz PMD 661 digital flash card recorder (2)
• Marantz PMD 660 digital flash card recorder (5)
• ElectroVoice 635 microphones
• AudioTechnica AT825 stereo microphone
• AudioTechnica AT897 shotgun microphone (2)

Satellite/Network Equipment

• Traxis DBS4000 Ku-band satellite receiver
• Wineguard satellite dish with dual linear LNB
• MDO/UK STL-IP Broadcast Internet Network Connection
• Mueller Broadcast Design T25-35 Subaudible Tone Decoder
• Grace Digital Audio GDI-IRDT200 Internet Radio Receiver

Transmitter/Internet Streaming

• Gates FM1H3 1000W FM Stereo Transmitter
• Broadcast Electronics FX50 Exciter
• Omnia One stereo processor
• Belar modulation and stereo monitors
• Inovonics 702 RDS encoder
• Burk Technologies VRC2500 Remote Control Unit
• Futuri Media streaming appliance and streaming service
• AircheckReady audio logging software