Our Facilities
University TV
Welcome to University TV (Channel 62 on Comcast and Channel 99 on AT&T U-verse) hosted by Comcast Cablevision and AT&T U-verse. Our goals are to provide interesting and informative programming that serves the public interest in addition to providing our students with the opportunity to gain experience in television management and production.
University TV airs a variety of programming including national renowned speakers that contribute to the discussion of timely and provocative issues. Many of these speakers appear at events on the UALR campus or at the Clinton School of Public Service.
The “Classic Arts Showcase” is sometimes referred to as the “music video channel” for the arts. Viewers can sample a variety of art disciplines including animation, museum art, dance, opera, classic film as well as excerpts from musical and theatrical performances. The “Classic Arts Showcase” intent is to inspire the viewer to sample the art available in our community.
“Deutsche-Welle”, direct from Germany, brings the central Arkansas European community information, news, and entertainment from Europe.
Students in the School of Mass Communication students are encouraged to produce programming for the University Channel as part of their coursework. In addition students may work directly on the channel getting practical, valuable, hands on experience in our full production studio. Current student produced programs include: “The Fourth Wall”, “River City Scene” and “The Seventh Floor.
Program schedule changes may occur without advanced notice. For information about University TV programming please contact the cable coordinator at: Cheryl A. Hellmann cahellmann@ualr.edu
The Rock Reporter.com
TheRockReporter.com an Online School of Mass Communcation Creativity Space. This is a site designed and run by students in the School of Mass Communcation at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR).
Mobile Production Truck
Students have the opportunity to produce on-location video projects each year. The mobile TV production unit is equipped to videotape at remote sites or work in conjunction with a satellite uplink for live transmissions. The truck is used for conferences, athletic events, and other local productions, and has traveled as far away as Reno, Nevada and Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Labs
The School’s Mac lab has a non-linear digital video editing and media production lab with 15 Macintosh G5s, Final Cut Pro HD, Adobe Creative Suite, Final Draft 7 screenwriting software. The John Gray Computer Laboratory has been upgraded with new Pentium 4 CPUs with “Firewire” hardware and new Adobe editing software. The firewire option allows students to download digital video and audio directly from their camera at a higher bandwidth using the IEEE-1394 standard communications protocol, which is directly loaded into lab computers for editing.
The new editing software “Adobe Premiere Pro” is more adapted to the digital editing sequence and therefore provides support to the firewire options now available in the newer Pentium 4 based Dell computers.
The news lab is a ten-station computerized newsroom featuring EZNews software, the Associated Press news service and the CNN Newsource satellite-fed video news service for producing regularly scheduled television newscasts. The School also has a 15-station MAC lab used primary for writing and design classes.
There are two digital audio labs digitally equipped with Sound Forge editing software.
Equipment
This is a partial list of equipment in the School. The School is frequently adding newer and upgraded hardware, software, and other equipment to its inventory for student use.
16 miniDV camcorders
4 Sony PDX - 10s
6 Panasonic DVC-7s
2 Panasonic DVC-15s
4 Panasonic DVC-60s
Digital non-linear video editors:
16 Final Cut Pro G5 workstations
2 Avid workstations
16 computer workstations with Adobe Premier, After Effects, PhotoShop, and other editing software.