Kal and Lucille Rudman show off the TUTV logo. (by Joseph Labolito/Temple University)
The Kal and Lucille Rudman Foundation has given $1.2 million to Temple University’s School of Communications and Theater to launch the Kal and Lucille Rudman Media Production Center.
Located in Annenberg Hall on Temple University’s Main Campus, the Media Production Center will be the home of TUTV, Temple’s new digital cable station. Scheduled to begin broadcasting to the Philadelphia area on cable and to the world online this fall, TUTV will feature programming from the School of Communications and Theater and many other schools and colleges within Temple University, as well as community and professional broadcast partners. In addition to production, students will gain experience in all aspects of station management, including marketing, promotion, branding and finance.
The Media Production Center, which will include studio space, a master control room, professional editing facilities and an adjacent classroom/newsroom, will be much more than a television studio. As part of the Rudmans’ gift, an endowed fund was created to support master classes and seminars on key issues in broadcasting, entertainment and new media. The gift also supports an internship for a student to work alongside TUTV’s general manager to help create and implement production plans and oversee station activities as a whole.
“Temple was so important in my formative years,” Kal Rudman says. “I feel blessed to be able to help Temple students for many years to come.”
The Rudmans have also given thousands of dollars through Philadelphia’s Broadcast Pioneers, which in turn has provided scholarships for numerous Temple students over the past decade.
Programming for TUTV will be inclusive of all SCT departments, as well as other Temple schools and colleges and Temple campuses abroad. The television station will air major events like the Lew Klein Alumni in the Media Awards; original programming such as Temple Update, the student news show; lectures and symposia; theater productions; and student films. TUTV will capture performances from the Boyer College of Music and Dance and imagery from the Tyler School of Art. It also hopes to collaborate with the Fox School of Business, the School of Medicine and Temple University Athletics.
“The Kal and Lucille Rudman Media Production Center will play a key role in the arts, media and communications here at Temple University and across greater Philadelphia,” says Temple University President Ann Weaver Hart.
“Kal and Lucille’s extraordinary generosity allows our students to have real world experience in content production, while providing an opportunity for cable and online audiences to experience and appreciate the fascinating programs that Temple students and faculty will create,” says Associate Professor Paul Gluck, general manager of TUTV and the Rudman Media Production Center.
Temple, SCT celebrate generosity of Kal and Lucille Rudman
Kal and Lucille Rudman show off the TUTV logo. (by Joseph Labolito/Temple University)
The Kal and Lucille Rudman Foundation has given $1.2 million to Temple University’s School of Communications and Theater to launch the Kal and Lucille Rudman Media Production Center.
Located in Annenberg Hall on Temple University’s Main Campus, the Media Production Center will be the home of TUTV, Temple’s new digital cable station. Scheduled to begin broadcasting to the Philadelphia area on cable and to the world online this fall, TUTV will feature programming from the School of Communications and Theater and many other schools and colleges within Temple University, as well as community and professional broadcast partners. In addition to production, students will gain experience in all aspects of station management, including marketing, promotion, branding and finance.
The Media Production Center, which will include studio space, a master control room, professional editing facilities and an adjacent classroom/newsroom, will be much more than a television studio. As part of the Rudmans’ gift, an endowed fund was created to support master classes and seminars on key issues in broadcasting, entertainment and new media. The gift also supports an internship for a student to work alongside TUTV’s general manager to help create and implement production plans and oversee station activities as a whole.
“Temple was so important in my formative years,” Kal Rudman says. “I feel blessed to be able to help Temple students for many years to come.”
The Rudmans have also given thousands of dollars through Philadelphia’s Broadcast Pioneers, which in turn has provided scholarships for numerous Temple students over the past decade.
Programming for TUTV will be inclusive of all SCT departments, as well as other Temple schools and colleges and Temple campuses abroad. The television station will air major events like the Lew Klein Alumni in the Media Awards; original programming such as Temple Update, the student news show; lectures and symposia; theater productions; and student films. TUTV will capture performances from the Boyer College of Music and Dance and imagery from the Tyler School of Art. It also hopes to collaborate with the Fox School of Business, the School of Medicine and Temple University Athletics.
“The Kal and Lucille Rudman Media Production Center will play a key role in the arts, media and communications here at Temple University and across greater Philadelphia,” says Temple University President Ann Weaver Hart.
“Kal and Lucille’s extraordinary generosity allows our students to have real world experience in content production, while providing an opportunity for cable and online audiences to experience and appreciate the fascinating programs that Temple students and faculty will create,” says Associate Professor Paul Gluck, general manager of TUTV and the Rudman Media Production Center.
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