Lancer Radio, located on the beautiful campus of Pasadena City College, is a student-operated radio station, streaming 24/7 and providing a platform for students to produce quality live, remote & downloadable radio.
The mission of Pasadena City College is to provide a high quality, academically robust learning environment that encourages, supports and facilitates student learning and success.
TALK PROGRAMMING: Lancer Radio hosts a variety of talk programs, covering political issues, current affairs, entertainment trends and technical trends. Lancer Radio hosts provide provocative in-depth commentary and bring in experts in their respective fields for live in-studio interviews.
SPORTS PROGRAMMING: Lancer Radio remote team provides live remote coverage of PCC athletic event on campus. Event coverage includes men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball, baseball, softball, water polo, track and football.
MUSIC PROGRAMMING: Lancer Radio music programming combines in studio-performances from up-and-coming indie artists with in-depth interviews of local bands and artists performing everything from folk to punk. Stay tuned for our live video feed of studio performances!
NEWS PROGRAMMING: Lancer Radio utilizes the skills PCC broadcast students are developing to provide hourly local and national news broadcasts.
Certificates of Achievement
Radio Production (28-29 units):
Program Description:
Radio Production curriculum prepares students to work in various areas of broadcasting and electronic media. Course work covers basic aspects of radio production, audio production, post-production sound, and announcing and writing for broadcast, cable and digital medias. Practical internships are offered in professional facilities, including commercial and public broadcast companies, cable television, production and post-production companies. Students selecting the “Radio” track of this program will produce a weekly show for the college radio station. Radio Production students are prepared for such positions as radio hosts/announcers, news reporters, production assistants, program producers, and audio editors for radio.
Occupations within the industry of telecommunications and digital media technologies are inherently competitive, and/or may be low-salaried. Inexperienced graduates are not generally hired.
A Certificate of Achievement is awarded upon completion of all required courses with a grade of C or better.
Required Courses:
| Year 1, Semester I – Fall (9 units) TVR 014A – BEGINNING RADIO PRODUCTION (3.0 units) |
| TVR 012 – BEGINNING ANNOUNCING AND PERFORMING IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA (3.0 units) |
| TVR 015 – INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA WRITING (3.0 units) |
| Year 1, Semester II – Spring (6 units) TVR 002A – BEGINNING AUDIO PRODUCTION (3.0 units) |
| TVR 007 – BEGINNING TV STUDIO PRODUCTION (3.0 units) |
| OR |
| TVR 004 – BEGINNING SINGLE CAMERA PRODUCTION (3.0 units) |
| Year 2, Semester III – Fall (6 units) TVR 002B – RADIO BROADCAST MASTER CONTROL OPERATIONS (3.0 units) |
| TVR 001 – INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC MEDIA (3.0 units) |
| Year 2, Semester IV – Spring (3-4 units) COMM 101 – COMMUNICATION FIELD PRACTICE (1.0 units) |
| TVR 119 – RADIO WORKSHOP (3.0 units) |
| OR |
| TVR 120 – RADIO WORKSHOP (2.0 units) |
| Year 2, Semester V – Summer (1 units) TVR 128F – RADIO PRODUCTION INTERNSHIP (1.0 units) |
Required Electives (3 Units)
One of the following Electives
| MUSC 129A – MUSIC IN MULTIMEDIA (3.0 units) |
| OR |
| TVR 104 – LIVE SOUND REINFORCEMENT (3.0 units) |
| OR |
| TVR 143 – DIGITAL AUDIO WORKSTATION SKILLS (3.0 units) |
Recommended Electives
| ELTN 130 – INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONICS (3.0 units) |
| & |
| CIS 030 – NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (3.0 units) |
| Student Learning Outcomes |
Students will be assessed on their ability to:
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Broadcast Journalism (32-33 units):
Program Description: The curriculum prepares students in the field of electronic journalism. Students are prepared for positions such as new researcher, assignment editor, news producer, news writer or reporter.
A Certificate of Achievement is awarded upon completion of all required courses with a grade of C or better.
Required Courses:
| Year 1, Semester I – Fall (12 units)TVR 002A – BEGINNING AUDIO PRODUCTION (3.0 units) |
| TVR 001 – INTRODUCTION TO ELECTRONIC MEDIA (3.0 units) |
| TVR 007 – BEGINNING TV STUDIO PRODUCTION (3.0 units) |
| TVR 012 – BEGINNING ANNOUNCING AND PERFORMING IN ELECTRONIC MEDIA (3.0 units) |
| Year 1, Semester II – Spring (13 units)TVR 016A – TELEVISION PRODUCTION (4.0 units) |
| TVR 018 – RADIO AND TELEVISION NEWSWRITING (3.0 units) |
| TVR 014A – BEGINNING RADIO PRODUCTION (3.0 units) |
| BIT 025 – SURVEY OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY IN BUSINESS (3.0 units) |
| Year 2, Semester III – Fall (7-8 units)TVR 021 – ELECTRONIC MEDIA MANAGEMENT (3.0 units) |
| TVR 024 – ELECTRONIC NEWS GATHERING AND EDITING (3.0 units) |
| TVR 128C – BROADCAST NEWS/ADMINISTRATION INTERNSHIP (1.0 units) |
| OR |
| TVR 129C – BROADCAST NEWS/ADMINISTRATION INTERNSHIP (2.0 units) |
Recommended Electives:
| COMM 001 – SURVEY OF MASS COMMUNICATION (3.0 units) |
| JOUR 002 – BEGINNING JOURNALISM (3.0 units) |
| JOUR 004A – REPORTING AND NEWSWRITING (3.0 units) |
| JOUR 007A – NEWSWRITING AND MAKE-UP (4.0 units) |
| SPCH 003 – VOICE AND DICTION (3.0 units) |
| SPCH 004 – ORAL INTERPRETATION (3.0 units) |
| TVR 014B – ADVANCED RADIO PRODUCTION (3.0 units) |
| TVR 019 – INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA AESTHETICS AND CINEMATIC ARTS (3.0 units) |
| Student Learning Outcomes |
Students will be assessed on their ability to:
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Staff
Lancer Radio Network staff is made up solely of Pasadena City College’s Radio Production & Operations students. Lancer Radio staffers work as producers, announcers & dee-jays and production crew in insuring that Lancer Radio’s programming is always fresh and serving the PCC and Pasadena community.