Broadcast Club Trains Students in TV

It’s time to suit up and bring out the salon-quality hair: Broadcast Club is in full swing at UW-Milwaukee and looking for aspiring broadcasters across campus.

Broadcast Club encompasses a weekly student-produced television show known as “Student Showcase,” which highlights various activities throughout the student body at UWM.

Each show consists of a host who interviews guests featured on the show, along with a full crew that allows students to utilize production equipment from a hands-on approach and engage in a plethora of live production positions, including cameras, technical directing, floor directing, audio mixing, teleprompting, and more.

“It gives them the opportunity to work with the technical side of producing, whereas the UWM PantherVision course offers the writing side of newscast production. It gives students a well-rounded side of broadcast television,” says Danielle Stobb, an active member of the Broadcast Club at UWM.

The club is run and organized by Mark Zoromski, whose students were recently awarded the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award for outstanding excellence in broadcast journalism for UWM’s PantherVision program. Panthervision and Broadcast Club are part of the Journalism, Advertising, and Media Department (JAMS).

“The future of broadcast journalism is in good hands,” said Zoromski at the Murrow awards ceremony.

Current broadcast club members attend entry-level JAMS classes to recruit new members to attend. Lecturer Zoromski shares information about the club in his higher-level classes.

“Joining is as simple as just showing up! And paying a $25 membership fee,” said Stobb.

The broadcasting studio is located at the B100 level of Cunningham Hall and produces shows from 2 to  4 p.m. on Friday afternoons. The club also produces the U View, a show hosted by the Minority Media Association of UWM on media diversity.