Sportsnet Keynote

Last Saturday, February 5th was the 7th year that BCIT Broadcast has hosted our annual Rogers Sportsnet Seminar.  This seminar brings both on-air and production personnel from Sportsnet to our campus to talk to students about careers in sports broadcasting.

We had many special guests attend this year, including John Shorthouse, Joey Kenward, John Garrett, Kristin Reid, Dan Murphy, Don Taylor, TC Carling, Dave Rashford, Colin Macrae, Greg Shannon, Andrew Thomas, Rob Corte, Craig MacEwen and Nelson Millman.

Critique Sessions

Students had the opportunity to practice a commentary and get feedback from Don Taylor, Craig MacEwen, and Kristin Reid, learn about Sports Public Relations, Sports Reporting, How to tell a sports story, and Television Sports Technology.

EVS Presentation

Dave Rashford from Rogers Sportsnet also did the official presentation of the EVS replay unit to the Television & Video Production program, making us the only school in Canada to have what has become the state of the art in broadcast replay technology.

** REGISTRATION CLOSES THIS WEEK – DETAILS INSIDE **

Rogers SportsNet – Sports Broadcasting Seminar at BCIT

Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Details

Over the past several years, more than 100 students each year have mixed with and learned from Sportsnet personalities and production personnel, along with local sports broadcasting and print figures at this annual Seminar.

This year sees our series of seminars and presentations focused on Reporting, Play-by-Play, Television Technical Production, Investigative Sports Reporting, Game Production, Public Relations, and repeats of our successful “Critique Sessions”, where the Sportsnet on-air pros assess student on-camera presentations.

Most sessions will be “open seating” and anyone can attend.  We will have multiple offerings of our popular “critique sessions” and “play-by-play sessions” which attendees must pre-register for (due to a very high demand, not everyone will be able to participate in these critique sessions).

We include a sumptuous lunch as well as coffee breaks as part of the package.

Best of all – it’s FREE, courtesy of the folks at Rogers Sportsnet!

Registration

Pre-registration is required.  130 seats will be available for BCIT students from Radio, Television, Broadcast Journalism, FilmFLEX and Digital Arts.  Another 20 seats will be available to guests from other academic institutions.

Registration Dates:

Monday November 2nd through Monday November 16th at 4pm

If we have more applicants than we have seats for, a lottery will determine the winning applicants.

Please print out the attached Sportsnet Registration Form ( PDF, Acrobat Reader Required) and drop off a copy in Jan Wadsworth’s office (room 100) in the Broadcast Centre Lobby.