Creative Friday – Tours

First up was a virtual tour of the ISELF building. You can look back to the previous ISELF Tour blog entry to get more info on that presentation.

Next, we met up with Sam Johnson who brought the team over to the UTVS & KVSC studios. Derrick Silvestri gave us a fun tour of UTVS where we were able to see the set used for the recent Trivia Weekend. Beam me up, Scotty! The UTVS studio was decked out as “the bridge” from Star Trek. We talked about the $4.8 million investment that will bring high definition to the TV studio. About $1 million will go to upgrade the cameras. Another big ticket item will be disk storage. Today the students use external computer hard drives. In the future they will have access to a considerable amount of fast storage area network. We also learned that UTVS has a lot of great video equipment that mass communication students are able to check out.

Jo McMullen-Boyer led the group through the KVSC studios and the new Somali Radio. The Somali Radio was the outcome of a grant from the Minnesota Legacy Fund. They told us about the music collection and how it’s organized and rated. They are digitizing their collection, but keep the CD’s around with physical notes from the reviewers attached to the media. The mixing studio in KVSC for Monday Night Live got a big makeover in 2011.