More station tours!

On March 29, 2010, by d_griffiths

CTV Vancouver Station Tour

Our first-year students had a chance to get downtown today to visit CTV Vancouver’s station on Burrard street (apologies for not getting photos behind the scenes of our Global BC tour last week, I’ll get some ASAP!)

Looks like some of the beautiful CTV Olympic setpieces got saved and are now being put to good use in their studio, including a gorgeous 150″ Panasonic plasma set that was being used for the Olympic studio.

One of the really enjoyable experiences about visiting stations around town is meeting all of our grads – they’re working everywhere!  It’s one of those unique aspects of the Television and Video Production program that really allows us to get students industry placements to get their “foot in the door”.

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Touring CBC's new facilities

On March 8, 2010, by d_griffiths

The first-year class had our first field-trip of the term and got to tour through CBC Vancouver’s new digs.  The recent construction did wonders for the newsroom and production facilities.  Very nice!

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