AcademicsCollege of Arts & SciencesAcademic DepartmentsCommunication and Theatre ArtsAreas of StudyElectronic Media and Broadcasting
Electronic Media and Broadcasting
The program includes study and practice in many areas of electronic media including: radio, television, cable and corporate audio/video.
Degrees offered
Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts with a concentration in Electronic Media and Broadcasting; a minor is also offered.
Student Organizations
WONB-FM
ONU3-TV (Local Access Channel)
ONU Cable
College Broadcasters, Inc.
Alpha Epsilon Rho: National Honor Society of National Broadcasting Society
Internships
The department offers an internship program, which provides a practical educational experience that includes theory and practice. Students have held internships at such businesses as WLIO-TV (Lima), WTOL-TV (Toledo); WBNS-TV (Columbus), Clear Channel Radio, CorpComm and Mills-James Productions.
Placement and Employment
Graduates go on to work in radio advertising sales, television production, broadcast news and corporate audio and video production. Many go onto graduate schools to pursue advanced study at universities such as Elon College, Syracuse, Ohio University, Bowling Green State University, George Mason University, The University of South Carolina and others.
Facilities
The Freed Center is home to WONB Radio: The Voice of Ohio Northern University.
The 3,000-watt non-commercial station first went on the air in 1991 and operates year round at 94.9 on the FM dial. WONB also streams on the internet and can be found at : http://www.wonb.net
ONU Cable is also located in the Freed Center and serves the campus with over 70 channels of educational and entertainment programming.
Both the radio station and the cable system are professionally managed and student operated.
CONTACT: Professor Richard Gainey
r-gainey@onu.edu
Webpage for Professor Gainey
