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The Broadcast Journalism classes run into Hoda on their field trip to NBC studios.

Khai Henderson, Staff Writer

Westhampton Beach Broadcast Journalism class attended on a school trip to NBC Studios. NBC is one of the America’s most popular television stations, home to The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Heroes Reborn and more. The trip took broadcast students through an assortment of studios and sets.

NBC Studios, is located in New York City at the Rockefeller building, It happens to be right next to the Christmas tree and the famous ice skating rink. The studio is the oldest television broadcast station ever. It brought so many great shows and radio stations to us that we know and love today. “I thought that it would be a valuable experience for the broadcast students to see the way a real network films and plans a show” stated by WHBHS Broadcast Journalism teacher Dariah Luciano. The tour not only showed you the popular studios for the television shows everyone knows and loves, but they also gave a peek at the behind the scenes life. The WHB broadcast students got to see the advanced equipment and all the different rooms to make a show perfect, the sound room, the editing room, and the main control room. It’s not a one man show. Without all of the crew a show would be nothing. NBC was generous enough to even let the broadcast classes create their own mini shows. Each student on the tour got to pick a different job and put together his or her very own television show.

“I know now that it takes a lot more people behind the camera to broadcast a show, it’s not just the people on the cameras and the ones in front- the control room has so much work to do” stated, senior Bianca Canberg. Many of the students know that the jobs they have to do are nothing compared to the work we saw during the tour. Everyone learned that you have to be a team for anything to get done in the broadcast world. “ I would hope that the trip helps the students improve their broadcast skills or at the very least motivates them.  In the end you never know…if this trip makes one kid want to go into broadcast who didn’t want to go into broadcast before, it was worth it” Luciano stated. The trip gave the broadcast students not only good background on NBC but information on the job choice as well. A lot of students had to think twice about what they wanted to do with their life. Broadcast Journalism isn’t a easy job choice, it takes a team. If you don’t have a strong team to work with then you wont get many things done.