Classes and Internships

Hello Again,

So today marks the unofficial end of summer as today is the first day of classes for Ithaca College and for me. I know! It's ridiculous, right? I have to take classes while I'm in the middle of enjoying one of the most fun cities in the world?! Well, unfortunately, I do.

I will be taking two classes this semester, as I mentioned in my first ever post. Those two are Issues and the News & Government and Media. Both classes are on Wednesday, so it helps to free up the other six days of the week for internships and other fun things. However, both classes are about 3 hours long. It should certainly be an interesting time! All of the students in the LA Program are also required to take a 1-credit seminar called Media Industries where people from around the media industry are brought in to speak to us. That seminar takes place four times during the four months on a Monday night. Classes are held at the Pendleton Center (in picture) which is located right down the street from the Oakwoods.

Now for the exciting stuff. I have finalized the two places where I will be interning while I am in LA. They are with the Los Angeles Kings and Torrance CitiCABLE 3!!



The LA Kings are the professional hockey team out here and former home club for greats such as Wayne Gretzky, Luc Robitaille, and Marcel Dionne. For the internship, I will be helping out in the radio broadcast booth at the Staples Center with broadcasting great Nick Nickson (whom the broadcast center @ Staples is named after) and former Kings great Daryl Evans. I will be doing anything from statistics to helping choose the 3 Stars of the Game to conducting player interviews during pregame and postgame for all home games while I'm out here. When there's no home game, I will do some work at their practice facility in El Segundo (just south of LAX) such as proofing pages for the media guide or program, editing game notes, helping the media at team practices, etc. It should be a great opportunity and is exactly the kind of experience I wanted while out here.



Torrance CitiCABLE 3 is a small TV channel out of Torrance, CA (just south of El Segundo) that focuses on local news and sports. I will be interning with their show, The Sports Desk, as an on-air reporter covering local high school sports. Torrance has four public high schools (Torrance, North, South and West) and one public school (Bishop Montgomery). There is also one college we cover called El Camino College. I will be focusing most of my reporting on South High School and will try to cover as much High School Football as I can. Basically, I will get to go cover a game, do interviews, and then edit together a package that will air on their weekly show. It is a fantastic opportunity that doesn't usually come often in an internship. I hope it will provide me with some more great stuff for my resume tape.

Overall, I'm really very excited to get things going at both internships and with my classes (as scary as that sounds) considering those are the real reasons why I am out here. However, I'm sure I will still be doing a bunch of sightseeing while I'm out here, so I'll have a lot more great posts to come! Thanks for reading!