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Length:
Two-Year Diploma
Career Opportunities:
This program prepares people for careers in Canadian Radio. Six
broadcast-quality control rooms, a fully-equipped newsroom, digital
and analog professional broadcast production facilities and studios
are the focus of Radio at Loyalist.
Two college radio stations are staffed and managed by Radio students.
A professional standard is maintained so that students operate under
actual broadcast conditions. Senior students receive live on-air
experience and invaluable training through staffing 92.3 CJLX FM
toward the end of first year and throughout their second year.
Placement of Radio students includes work as announcers, producers,
sales personnel, news reporters, sportscasters and copywriters in
cities including: Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary
and Victoria. In the past two years, our graduates have found employment
at radio stations such as Y95.3 FM Hamilton, CFRB Toronto, “The
Team” Kingston, Y105 FM and KOOL FM Ottawa. Loyalist Radio
graduates work throughout the country in large and small markets.
Program Description:
First-year students concentrate on all aspects of radio broadcasting
including: announcing, operating, programming, news, sports, copywriting,
music, regulation and management.
The second year of the program offers students an opportunity to
select from five areas of specialization: Announcing, Copy, Production,
Sales, or Promotions. These options have been developed in close
co-operation with broadcasters from across the country to provide
students with hands-on preparation for on-air or behind-the-scenes
careers in the industry.
During the second year, students who have passed all courses and
maintained a 2.0 GPA, complete the program by interning at any approved
radio station at their own expense.
Students in the Radio Broadcasting program may reserve a place in
the post-graduate Media Marketing and Sales program.
Approximate Costs (2003–2004):
Tuition: $2,358.00 (two semesters)
Books and Supplies: $1,000.00
Consumables Fee: $45.00
Admission Requirements:
Required academic preparation -
• OSSD/OSSGD or equivalent with courses at the general, advanced,
(C), (U), (M) or (O) level
or
• mature applicant
Recommended academic preparation:
English, computer literacy, current events, history, geography and
public speaking.
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