John Hart, a lecturer in radio-TV-film, discusses an assignment with his “TV
Studio Production” class, who are among the first students to be able
to use the new television-audio studio built in the basement of the Pollak
Library. The move from the second floor of the Humanities-Social Sciences Building
to the library was to consolidate all electronic media and film production
into one location, according to Ed Fink, chair and professor of radio-TV-film.
In addition to the control room pictured, the new facilities include two studios — one
for television production, one for broadcast journalism and a sound stage for
film and video production — and new all-digital equipment, and editing
bays that formerly had been in the basement of the College Park Building. Hart,
who teaches “Introduction to Radio-TV-Film” as well as studio production,
also works as an audio recordist for live-audience situation comedies and has
won Emmy awards for his work on “Golden Girls” and “Mad About
You.”