The shiny new television station installed this year at the University of Georgia has been a spectacular commercial failure. The Red and Black reports that WNEG, which moved its operations from Toccoa to a new studio at the Grady College of Journalism, may have to pull the plug on all its operations by September. From [...]
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10 Feb
UGA TV
TV news students at UGA’s Grady College of Journalism have a cool new tool on which to regularly ply their nascent trade: An actual TV station. The University of Georgia purchased Toccoa-based WNEG-TV months ago. In November, it began doing its newscasts from a new studio at Grady. Monday, it added an all-student, Athens-oriented newscast [...]
16 Nov
View from a control room
A fringe benefit of working at a TV station is the opportunity to invite yourself into the control room during a live broadcast. The draw is the madcap entertainment. Sometimes it’s sheer bedlam. More often than not, the show behind the scenes is far superior to the one being produced for TV. Last week we [...]
16 Oct
Neonatal newsgatherers
This week the University of Georgia’s Grady school of journalism took over a real-life on-air TV station. Used to be that UGA’s J-school kids had committed acts of television for a cable-only station in Athens. Now they have an actual FCC-licensed TV station. This means TV viewers in northeast Georgia will be subject to an [...]
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