May / June 2007
Loyalist show first on global student TV channel
Taste, a weekly cooking show produced by Loyalist College students, has become the first Ontario student production to be included in Open Student Television Network (OSTN) global television programming.
Produced by the Belleville college's TV and New Media students, the show features Chef Heinz Haas. It airs on cable and broadcast stations - and now globally on OSTN, thanks to the college's connection to ORION.
OSTN is the only 24-hour, seven-day global channel exclusively devoted to student-produced programming. In August 2006, ORION partnered with OSTN to bring the channel to Ontario colleges and universities to give students and faculty a powerful platform to showcase their film, video and television productions to a global audience. The agreement also allows institutions to host the channel on campus.
OSTN multicasts short and feature-length films, documentaries, performing arts, news, and cultural and lifestyle programs. Students create content and make programming decisions necessary for the network to appeal to its peer-viewing audience. It also provides students with resources, community, exposure and experience.
Loyalist was the first Ontario institution to sign on to OSTN.
"The chance to showcase our students' work to a global audience is amazing. To compare their work side by side with student works from around the world is both motivating and edifying for them," said Cathy Goddard, a professor in Loyalist's Television and New Media Production program. "It also gives them something really impressive to include on their resumes when looking for that first job out of school. We are thrilled to be contributing programming to OSTN and plan to expand our involvement by delivering other shows produced by Loyalist College students."
Taste is a hands-on experience for students enrolled in the Lifestyle Programming course of Loyalist's TV and New Media program, to put their production skills into practice. Lifestyle programming - shows dedicated to cooking, decorating, personal makeovers, hobbies, etc. - is one of the staples of today's television industry.
Loyalist's student-produced show Taste, and other student programming from around the world, can be viewed by visiting ORION Student TV, a portal streaming the 24-hour content of OSTN: www.orion.on.ca/research/orionstudenttv.html. The show can be seen on OSTN on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:30 pm and on Saturdays at 5:30 pm.
Other Ontario schools are currently collaborating with OSTN to submit programming.
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