Beach TV News
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Who We Are
Beach TV News is 色中色鈥檚 newly rebranded and relaunched student produced newscast which prepares students for careers in television news. Each week, students are put through a rigorous MMJ (multimedia journalist) bootcamp where they learn to write, shoot, and edit packages for TV and the web, as well as produce and direct during a live broadcast. The goal is to give students the skillset that will make them competitive and employable in the current journalism job climate.
Recent Accolades
- 2025 Best All-Around Newscast, Society of Professional Journalists
- 2025 Innovation Pacemaker Award, Associated Collegiate Press
- 2024 Broadcast Pacemaker Award, Associated Collegiate Press
- 2024 TV Station of the Year, College Media Association
- 2024 Best All-Around Newscast, Society of Professional Journalists
- First place, Best TV Newscast, Associated Collegiate Press
- First place, Best Broadcast News Story, Associated Collegiate Press
- First place, Best Sports Story, Associated Collegiate Press
Getting Involved
There are many ways to get involved with BTVN. Several courses in the Department of Journalism & PR feed into BTVN productions:
- Jour 482 is our signature course. Students in this course are immersed in a real TV-newsroom experience and work under deadline pressure to produce a nightly newscast. (Prerequisite: JOUR 120 and JOUR 321 with a grade of 鈥淐鈥 or better.) Students may repeat this course for a maximum of 6 units in different semesters.
- Jour 325 is our innovation course. Students learn how to engage younger audiences using vertical video. (Prerequisite: JOUR 104 or JOUR 120.)
- Jour 321 is our introductory course. Students learn to shoot video with professional Sony cameras and learn to edit on Adobe Premiere Pro. (Prerequisite: JOUR 120 with a grade of 鈥淐鈥 or better.)
- Contributors: In Fall 2025 we launched our content creators' program which allows contributors to publish their work across all our platforms including our nightly newscast, our IGTV and TikTok shows, our website, and/or our social media channels. The content creators' program is ideal for students who are still working on prerequisites for the courses listed above but who are passionate about video and multimedia journalism and want to start getting involved. If you are interested in becoming a contributor, please email Professor Jes煤s Ayala.
Where To Find Us
Beach TV News is available on Beach TV as a 24/7 live stream. We are also broadcast to 100,000 homes on Spectrum Cable 95 and Frontier FiOS Channel 25 in Long Beach, and Spectrum Channel 28 in Lakewood. Additionally, Beach TV is available on streaming services Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV.
YouTube:
Instagram: @BeachTVNews
TikTok: @BeachTVNews
X: @BeachTVNews
Contact
Jes煤s Ayala
Professor and Director, Beach TV News
jesus.ayala@csulb.edu
