The mission of the Southeastern Channel is to produce programming that furthers the university’s mission to lead the educational, economic, and cultural development of southeast Louisiana as well as provide both instruction and real-world experience in television and video production to university students.  While addressing these goals, the Southeastern Channel also offers video production and multimedia projection services for various university events and activities.

Southeastern Channel programming provides audiences with unusual and educational viewing alternatives that are available both on-demand and as part of the regular content stream.  Talk shows, international newsmagazines, documentaries, concerts, and classic matchups that chronicle the exciting history of Southeastern athletics are all part of our weekly schedule.  We serve our local community by offering new ways to access educational information and cultural events, providing a vital link between the university, area businesses, and industrial organizations. Most importantly, the Southeastern Channel exists as a real-world professional environment where students can learn and experiment while enhancing various skill sets in preparation for productive careers within the communications industry. 

The Southeastern Channel officially hit the airwaves July 9, 2002 and in the past 15 years has established itself as one of the premier university television stations worldwide.

With high-quality production and programming as its staple, the Southeastern Channel has already won over 300 regional, national and international awards, including 15 Emmy Awards and 56 Emmy nominations along with multiple top awards from Tellys, College Broadcasters, Inc., Society of Professional Journalists, and Southeast Journalism Conference, Worldfest International Film and Video Festival, Associated Press College Broadcasters, Louisiana Association of Broadcasters, College Sports Media Awards, Videographer Awards, Communicator Awards, ADDY Awards, Axiem Awards, Aurora Awards, New York International Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles International Film and Video Festival, Hot Springs Documentary Festival, Colorado Environmental Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, and the Twin Rivers Media Festival. The Southeastern Channel is the only university channel in Louisiana history to have won an Emmy.

Led by an international award-winning professional staff, some with decades of experience at the national television network level, the Southeastern Channel produces over 600 hours of fresh original programming each year. The channel airs over 140 hours of original programming each week, nearly 90 percent of its programming schedule. The Southeastern Channel produces and airs educational, community, cultural, entertainment, and sports programming, including live forums, music concerts, and sports events, for its North Shore and southeast Louisiana audience. The Channel’s 24/7 webcast, its “live” stream to mobile devices and its Video on Demand programming can be seen worldwide. The Channel is also available Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube.

Our current production studio is a technologically versatile space that equals or surpasses what is found at other university facilities and even some local and regional television stations. The studio features mobile Sony broadcast-quality high-definition cameras equipped with teleprompters and control room communications modules.  An extensive lighting grid contains over 100 lights, all controlled by a digital dimmer console and complemented by studio curtains and a cyclorama.  The studio also accommodates modular sets designed for various news, sports, and talk shows planned and produced by student staff. Some sets utilize innovative VersaTube LED lighting technology as well as one or more LCD screens, allowing students to design specific aesthetic approaches to each studio project.

Our studio control room is centered around Newtek Tricaster technology capable of broadcasting, streaming, and recording productions originating from both the Southeastern Channel studios and remote locations throughout campus.  Live gameday production is enhanced with a Newtek 3Play slow-motion replay system, used to instantly access recorded action from up to four live cameras.  AJT LiveBook and Newtek LiveText software platforms provide professional graphic overlays for either athletic or studio-based productions.   This facility also includes individual camera control units with vectorscope and waveform image analysis, Clearcom intercom and IFB talkback systems, a teleprompter station, and a Behringer x32 40-channel digital mixer.  Control room operations also allow for the customization of individual productions, allowing for animated elements and virtual set design.

All Southeastern Channel programming originates from our master control center located within the University Center. Here files are collected, scheduled, and delivered to Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV as well as Spectrum Cable and our website. The channel’s master control room utilizes a server-based programming system storing hundreds of hours of programming for automated scheduling and playback and is the primary point of communication between the studio and other destinations such as ESPN+.

At the Southeastern Channel, staff members as well as communications students have access to numerous workstations equipped with the entire Adobe Creative Cloud software suite.  Additionally, hands-on training with key software platforms such as Adobe Premiere and After effects is available and encouraged.  Further instruction in other applications such as Davinci Resolve, Cinema 4d, and Autodesk 3ds Max are available options to students interested in advanced post-production procedures.