Building America in Bethlehem is about the rise and decline of the Bethlehem Steel company. This documentary film, completed in 2009, follows the conversion of one of the largest steel factories in America into Sands Casino, a casino-entertainment center. It depicts a poetic and dystopian portrait of American industry and the city of Bethlehem, PA which was built around it.
Watch it on TUTV on Thursday, January 9 at 1 and 9 p.m.
Philly Famous Podcast is back in the New Year with another in depth interview by host Greg Holdsman featuring a prominent Philadelphian!
The newest episode features Ben Thomas, Philly’s most sought-after recording engineer, who has worked with world famous artists like Post Malone, Lil Yatchy, and Chuck D, and is the co-owner of Nice Things Music, along with former Philly Famous Podcast guest Chill Moody. He also happens to be a Temple alum! Ben appeared on Greg’s audio-only podcast two years ago, and in this episode he catches Greg back up to date with his current exploits. Ben discusses, among other things, being one of the few engineers who is a person of color and close in age to many of the artists he works with.
Hear more from Ben about what it takes to be a successful recording engineer on Tuesday, January 7 at 11:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
From Temple Education Professor George Mehler, FunScience Productions is a program focused on providing high quality science lessons on every core idea that students should know before high school. Each episode brings a series of engaging demonstrations in a broad range of topics including earth/space science, physics, life science, science practices and engineering. These demos are useful for teaching children about the world around us in a fun and direct way.
Tune in to TUTV on Mondays at 4:30 p.m. to see this new addition to the TUTV Monday afternoon educational programming block.
TUTV wishes you and your family a happy holiday season! To celebrate, tune in to our Christmas marathon. Starting on Tuesday morning, we’ll have holiday programming extending into Wednesday for lots of holiday cheer! See our online schedule for more information.
TUTV’s all-female talk show is finishing up the year with a new holiday-themed episode premiering Saturday. The hosts also discuss “love languages”, celebrity use of social media, and the stigma of tattoos in the workplace. Tune in December 21 at 3:30 and 11:30 p.m. to see the season finale of this student produced program.
On a new episode of Your Best Life, host Lisa Bien highlights “burnout,” a phenomenon familiar to many in today’s world, with studies showing that it is especially prevalent among women. The World Health Organization recently added burnout to its list of occupational syndromes.
Lisa brings Joyel Crawford to the set to give a first hand account of her experiences with burnout, which ultimately derailed her career in Human Resources. However, Joyel also describes how she faced it head on and came out on the other side to live her best life. She now runs her own company, Crawford Leadership Strategies, that consults with businesses about how to prevent burnout in their employees.
Watch the premiere of this episode on Monday, December 16 at 12:30 and 8:30 p.m.
Tune in this Thursday, December 12 for the final live news programs of the year! Graduating seniors will be featured on Temple Update in a special hour-long presentation of the newscast starting at 10 a.m. and re-airing at 6 p.m. Beginning at noon, OwlSports Update will wrap up the semester in Temple athletics with everything you need to know before heading home before the holidays. Watch it again at 8 p.m.
Philly Famous Podcast starts off a new season with a bang! Dave Silver of REC Philly and Amplify Philly comes to the set to talk to host Greg Holdsman about his business ventures and his rise from throwing DIY shows on Temple campus to opening a brand new, 10,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility in the recently reopened Fashion District Philadelphia.
Dave Silver and his best friend from high school, Will Toms, both Temple alums, together started REC Philly in 2015, which has been called by Forbes Magazine a “WeWork for artists.” The company serves as a resource hub for performing and creative artists who join the service, providing everything from recording and studio space, a store to sell your wares, meditation rooms and much, much more.
Learn more about REC Philly and how Dave Silver got his entrepreneurial ideas off the ground on TUTV this Tuesday, December 10 at 11:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
TUTV’s hip hop culture talk show returns with an all new episode on Saturday, December 7 at 3:30 and 11:30 p.m. Philly based producer turned recording artist PromoBoi comes on set as a guest in this episode’s Poppin Topics segment.
Temple Talk premieres a new episode in time for the winter holidays this week. The hosts discuss the latest in entertainment news and gossip, and speak to Philly artist Jada Byrd, who talks about the art she creates and her passion for helping young artists realize their potential.
Watch the premiere on Tuesday, December 3 at 1 and 9 p.m.
On a new episode of Your Best Life with Lisa, Lisa Bien talks to Diana Liberto, who went from suffering from severe depression and PTSD to becoming an innovator and living her best life.
Diana was a successful lawyer when her father, mother, and uncle all died suddenly and tragically within a short period of time. In an attempt to face her monumental losses, she hired a personal trainer and found that making conversation with her trainer gave her relief. She realized that “walking and talking” was the perfect way to mourn and work through her issues. However, she also knew that most women can’t afford a personal trainer, so she developed an app to provide a similar regimen to what had worked for her. She quit her well-paying job and launched the WalkMyMind app.
Watch the premiere of this episode on Monday, December 2 at 12:30 and 8:30 p.m. to find out more about Diana and her app.
TUTV wishes all of our viewers a happy Thanksgiving and a wonderful Fall Break to Temple students!
In honor of the occasion, we will air a movie marathon on Thanksgiving day, including Topper Returns and March of the Wooden Soldiers. See our full online schedule for more information.
High Flying Owls is hosted by Dwight Carey, an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at Temple, who interviews alumni who have started their own businesses. In this episode, Dwight talks to married couple Chloe and Phillip Carroll, the latter a Temple alum, who are filmmakers who just released their award-winning movie, The Honeymoon Phase. Together they came up with the idea for the story and Phillip wrote the screenplay and directed the film, while Chloe acts in the film as a lead. Both also acted as producers.
The Honeymoon Phase is a psychological thriller following struggling young lovers, Tom and Eve, who sign up for a 30 day experiment designed to examine why love tends to diminish over time in relationships. However, they through the course of the study, the couple find themselves facing the unexpected.
Watch the episode on Monday, November 25 at noon and 8 p.m. on TUTV.
A new episode of Brand Matters covers the vaping industry and especially the Juul brand. Host Steve McLean and with John Duffin from Duffin Media discuss their marketing strategies, including how they’ve been arguably targeting their products to minors. They discuss the recent highly publicized deaths and illnesses in Juul users.
Strays, a student-produced thriller, will premiere on TUTV next Saturday, November 23 at 3:30 and 11:30 p.m.
Temple Pilots is a student group and TUTV television show organized to help fellow students produce new ideas for TUTV. With the help and support of TUTV, this program delivers an array of interesting stories in the form of a series of pilots.
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