Authored by: BlastFurnace on Wednesday, April 01 2009 @ 03:00 PM CST

It's an interesting question.   Back here in Central Canada, CTS also had an in-house school of broadcasting.   It was heavily advertised in the station's early days but no mention has been made of it for years.   I don't know if it shut down, if it got de-emphasized or whatever.   A check at their webpage said the program was being "restructured," but the date on it is 2002.

Anyone notice a pattern here?

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Authored by: marina on Monday, April 06 2009 @ 10:26 AM CST

Blast, the date you noted on the Crossroads page appears to be the 2002 copyright license date, so the information on that page may actually be fairly current. I did a little checking and found this:

The Crossroads Conway School of Broadcasting (from the 2007 Crossroads Mission Report)

Since 1982, the Crossroads Conway School of Broadcasting has trained over 1,300 students from 76 countries. The resulting accomplishments of our graduates include:

· A TV channel in India that airs 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
· TV programs in the Farsi language targeting Iran, with more than 1,000 people per month coming to Jesus.
· An Arabic 24/7 Christian Internet radio station that is reaching over 600,000 Arabs worldwide per month.
· Evangelism projects that are reaching media students and executives in Mongolia.
·  Month-long media blitzes in major cities across Russia, with thousands coming to the saving knowledge of Christ.
· Plus, many more exciting endeavours….

In 25 years it appears that Crossroads has done something with the broadcasting school, although you'd think that if it has had such widespread success, there would be more information on it's accolades.

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"A lie can get halfway around the world while the truth is getting its boots on." Mark Twain

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Authored by: BlastFurnace on Monday, April 06 2009 @ 04:18 PM CST

Thanks for the heads up, Marina ... as a follow-up, though, I would have to ask the same question as was asked about the school at TMC -- was it a way of getting people into the phone bank?  From the numbers it looks like they've done some good work but I'd like to see proof in their claims.

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Authored by: brdewi on Monday, April 13 2009 @ 01:53 AM CST

I think that the cost of such an enterprise is high when you consider the training programs offered by the local cable companies that have their own studios.  I know that I received a great education in TV Production at the Cable Company of the time (Monarch Cable) in Medicine Hat.  One has to put aside the secular reasons which is not hard to do as we are called to do it daily to learn.  The learning in many cases takes in Christian TV and Secular TV when broadcasting live specials in local churches.

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Authored by: The Last Spike on Wednesday, July 29 2009 @ 06:02 PM CST

The only ones I know of that went on to a career in television broadcasting, worked at TMC.  No others I know of, except Merv Mediwake's daughter went on to anything great.  However, she is exceptionally good-looking and we also know sex sells!

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