Students are encouraged to seek practical experience through work on student publications and broadcasting outlets, other campus publications, local media, and internships at newspapers, magazines, advertising firms, radio and television stations, businesses, public relations agencies and other institutions. Students may gain experience by working on the College Heights Herald, the campus newspaper; the Talisman, the yearbook; WWHR, a licensed non-commercial FM station managed and staffed by students; the student advertising and public relations agency Imagewest; and the Newschannel 12 newscast, a 30-minute live campus cablecast. Qualified students may gain additional experience on campus through staff work at the National Public Radio station, WKYU-FM, or crew employment at the Public Broadcasting System associate member station, WKYU-TV24.

 

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The half hour student-produced television newscast airs on the following schedule:

On-campus: WKU Cable Residence Life Channel 12
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
6:00 p.m.

Off-campus: WKYU-TV PBS Channel 24
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
11:00 p.m. (re-broadcast, 30 minutes)

Description:

NewsChannel 12 is a 30 minute broadcast of news and sports events involving Western Kentucky University and its students. The program involves nearly fifty students in the School of Journalism & Broadcasting. On-air talent audition each semester for anchor positions. Student anchors, producers, photographers and reporters combine their resources to produce the program. All on-air and behind-the-scenes personnel rotate schedules to work on NewsChannel 12. A faculty advisor oversees content and production. NewsChannel 12 affords students the chance to have their work 'shown' to viewers. This means the opportunity to build their resume via professional media experience. Hundreds of former WKU broadcast students now work in a variety of media outlets around the country and NewsChannel 12 enhances that tradition.

 

WWHR-FM is Revolution 91.7

Revolution describes "a complete change." As such, the term accurately applies to the objective of college radio: to revolutionize the commercial audio landscape. We sculpt the future of music with subtle and stalwart strokes.

Revolution also identifies "the movement of a body in orbit." While college radio freely shapes the progression of music, it must do so with regard for its axis: the audience. We must sell the future of music to our listeners with a cutting-edge yet familiar quality so we do not alienate them.

Revolution 91.7 recognizes an intended audience of male and female adults aged 18-34 that attend Western Kentucky University, as well as young professionals in Bowling Green and its surrounding areas. Our listeners enjoy an active lifestyle at the university and in the community.

WWHR-FM delivers a commercial-free mix of progressive music that follows the national charts of the College Music Journal and then expands the rotation to address local tastes. Revolution 91.7 recalls the founding artists of college radio while exposing the contemporary underground. In addition, WWHR-FM features news, sports, and genre-specific programming.