NetShock

Alternative Broadcasting press release

2009-03-23T14:23:00.001-07:00

Alternative Student Television News

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa Sixteen electronic media students at the University of Northern Iowa are producing four, five-minute news shows per week as part of an experimental production class offered for the first time this semester. Split up into teams of four, the students manage everything from scriptwriting, video production, distribution, and marketing of their shows.
The class format offers a change from the traditional UNI-TV newscast that has been offered in past semesters. "Each group has total responsibility for the production of their show," says Nathan Epley, the instructor for the course. What theyre doing differently this semester is to try and bring UNI-TV out to the audience that is on the Internet, one of the challenges many commercial news broadcasters havent met.
The students chose the four shows as part of a proposal process that began early in the semester. "I think our shows are a fresh look at where news is going," says Brandon Neil, a student in the UNI-TV class. "This format is something we could expect as creative professionals in the future."
The students broadcast the shows in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls area on Mediacom channel 18 and CFU channel 99 as part of a newscast each Thursday. The newscast is available on Mondays at 6:00 PM, Tuesdays at 8:00 PM, Wednesdays at 9:00 PM, Thursdays at 8:00 PM and Fridays at 6:00 PM.

Spring Break

2009-03-23T14:15:00.002-07:00

Our University was on spring break last week so there was no new episode. Expect episode 6 to be up by the weekend.

NetShock Episode 5

2009-03-23T14:15:00.001-07:00

NetShock Episode 4

2009-03-23T14:08:00.000-07:00

Netshock Episode 3 Re-Post

2009-03-23T14:00:00.001-07:00

So I may mess up and post a video that is way too big to fit in the space allotted. Ya wanna fight about it?

NetShock Ep. 2

2009-03-02T15:01:00.001-08:00

Episode 1 of Netshock

2009-03-02T14:58:00.000-08:00

New Slogan

2009-03-02T14:57:00.001-08:00

Calvin, one of the hosts of the show has a new and improved slogan... "Netshock, bringing your pointless news in an ordinary fashion!"

NetShock

2009-03-02T14:53:00.000-08:00

NetShock is a short news cast created by four individuals at the University of Northern Iowa. This news cast is 1 of 4 from the UNI TV class. Netshock tackles various subjects, but mostly brings you stories of popular news on the internet.