CARPE DIEM is an award-winning weekly half-hour magazine show produced by the Department of Broadcasting at Montclair State University. The program airs on Comcast and Cablevision in northern New Jersey. Awarded the 1996 CTN CAPE Award for Best Series, and three Gracie Awards for student productions in 2001 and 2002, Carpe Diem has covered a wide range of topics of interest to New Jersey, including a segment on the Jersey Devil, Weird New Jersey, Amandla Crossing, and New Jersey filmmaker Tom Cudworth, as well as topics featuring many campus events and activities. The show has also featured such guests as Ernestine Schlant Bradley, Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Steve Adubato of Caucus, New Jersey, jazz singer Ruth Brown, and Tony award-winner Melba Moore, an alumna of MSU. Apart from these programs, faculty member and Emmy award-winner Dr. Bill Berlin has produced and hosted several Carpe Diem episodes including those featuring former Congressman Peter Rodino and writer Tony Hiss.

In addition to providing a service to the northern New Jersey television community, Carpe Diem provides broadcasting majors with rigorous weekly production activity that simulates that of the broadcasting profession. During the course of a semester, students produce a minimum of fifteen programs, often more. Apart from producing their own works, it is not uncommon for students, by the time they have graduated, to have production credits for as many as 25 to 30 programs.

Carpe Diem reaches about a half million households in New Jersey and is produced at the DuMont Television Center at MSU.