Radio-TV production features intensive laboratory experience in producing and directing news, documentaries and other programs as well as learning the basics of television photojournalism and digital editing.

Storytellers—that’s what students who major in Radio-Television become. Whether they are using natural sound, interviews and music to produce a radio report or using video shot in a variety of sequences with interesting natural sound and edited into a television news segment, it’s always about storytelling. Students also learn the basics of reporting, interviewing, writing and ethical decision-making.

Radio-Television students use digital cameras, non-linear computer video editors and graphics programs that help them write, produce, direct, photograph and edit radio and television news stories, programs, documentaries, promotional announcements and commercials.

Directors learn to work in a live television program environment, work with a large crew, handle last-second changes to scripts and rundowns, work with live-shots, select correct shots and direct viewers through a seamless program. But it’s still about telling the story and keeping the viewers and listeners interested.

Our students are well-prepared for internships and jobs at radio stations, television stations and production houses around Montana and the rest of the country. And when they graduate, they know the education and training they’ve received at the University of Montana Radio-Television Department has prepared them for the move into the real-world of broadcasting and beyond.

For more information, contact , chair of the Radio-Television Department.

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