Broadcasting Goes Hollywood
Western Illinois University's broadcasting department honored students and the alumna of the year,
Darcie Shinberger, at its sixth annual broadcasting banquet, "Broadcasting Goes Hollywood," in April.
Read more and
see pictures.
Phi Kappa Phi Inducts Edsall
Samuel Edsall, a broadcasting associate professor, was inducted into the WIU Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi at their spring induction ceremony. Edsall has been a member of the WIU faculty since 1990, grew up on public broadcasting. His father was chief broadcasting engineer at several public television stations, designing and planning many of them. Since Edsall was old enough to answer the phone, he worked at pledge drives and auctions to help raise funds for the local PBS station and continued to serve various volunteer roles until graduation. Edsall specializes in new technologies in mass communication and teaches television production, online and multimedia journalism and computer graphics for television. He has recently published the textbook "Computer Graphics for Television — A Reference Manual" and has won several regional and national awards for his television and multimedia productions. Edsall has presented numerous papers at regional and national conferences.
New ambient album release by Sam Edsall available on iTunes.