About us...

The Communication Department at Saint Joseph's College sponsors several extracurricular activities, one of which is our television production facility.

Our facility consists of a three-camera studio; control room; cable television programming office; a computer-based newsroom with CNN Newsource and LocalNews newsroom software; and two Sony Vegas non-linear edit suites.

WPUM-TV6 is subsidized by the College, and produce programming primarily for the students at SJC.  In addition to locally-produced shows, we also are affiliated with CNN.

Shows: 

• TV6 NEWS

• OUT OF CLASS

• ARE YA SURE!

TV6 NEWS. SJC students produce a live, 30-minute newscast each week.   TV6 is an affiliate of CNN Newsource, and airs packages, features, and other video material from CNN.

TV6 News airs live on Tuesday, and is replayed twice daily. TV6 News past producers have gone on to acquire tv news producer positions in network affiliates in the Midwest.

 Auditions will be held in August and January for on-air talent positions.  Available jobs are news, weather, and sports.

Recent episodes include a spoof on the popular tv program The Real World.   It was titled The Wierd World, and was shot in Michigan.  Previous shows have dealt with both serious and funny themes. Examples include: four freshmen get locked in the library on Halloween night; a camping trip is cut short by an escaped mass murderer; vampires harass campus; drug addiction takes its toll on a student; a stalker disrupts campus; student falls asleep in lecture and wake up in a Western; a parody of Baywatch and another spoof of Survivor.

Shows are shot in and around campus, and often include "road trip" shoots. OOC productions have taken us to  Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan, St. Louis and numerous sites around Indiana.

ARE YA SURE? is a student-produced and directed project for second semester, 2010.  AYS is a game show which tests knowledge about best friends, roommates, or boyfriend/girlfriends