MA PG Dip PG Cert Broadcast Media

Why study Broadcast Media at Warrington?

For those who have aspirations to work in the Broadcast Media sector, this programme offers the opportunity to develop practical production skills while gaining a conceptual understanding of Broadcast Media production and the developing technologies, platforms and practices related to this Industry. Even within specific TV and Radio modules, you will examine how new and emerging technologies are impacting on Broadcast Media. Ultimately, the synergies and connections between different media platforms and technologies will be explored.

The Broadcast Media postgraduate should emerge a ‘critical practitioner’ prepared not only to access a range of graduate vocational areas within the Broadcast Media Industry and wider mass media, but also to understand and perhaps even shape them.

Features:

• This programme will allow you to immerse yourself in broadcast production; to research stories, meet people and develop and craft narratives. It could appeal to those students who are interested in the broadcast industries but who don’t want to specialise in solely Television or Radio production. While there are TV and Radio focused modules, you will gain knowledge of the different digital platforms as well as the impact of new and emerging technologies.
   
• The 24-hour access facilities available to you on the MA in Broadcast Media include the TV studio, which is equipped with pedestal cameras, a studio gallery and raised seating area; and specialist Radio studios, including a live broadcasting radio station and voice-over booth. You will be able to borrow a range of recording equipment, from portable recorders and cameras to outside broadcasting equipment.
   
• The Warrington Campus, where the Broadcast Media course is offered, is extremely well geographically situated being approximately a 20-minute drive from MediaCityUK, one of the most important media industry centres in the UK. In terms of opportunities for our postgraduate students to engage with Industry, we are extremely well placed. The University’s continued membership of the BBC Connect and Create Partnership is one example of how links with Industry can be developed; over the last five years, this partnership has lead to innumerable opportunities for Department of Media students to get involved in workshops, ‘challenges’ and much sought-after work placements. Furthermore, the relationships staff and the department have forged and maintained with key Industry figures and companies, both regionally and nationally, have been of enormous benefit to the students in terms of guest lectures and ‘live briefs’. The Department of Media’s annual series of ‘Inside the Creative Industries’ lectures have further allowed students to directly engage with a variety of Industry professionals from across the country who are working in a range of media sectors.
   
• The Department of Media’s in-house production house, the Hot Room, offers students the opportunity to work on ‘live’ projects for both internal and external clients. Some opportunities are embedded in the curriculum but there are also opportunities for students to gain paid employment through this enterprise, once they have honed their skills.