Carpe Diem Contact: Patricia Piroh (973) 655-5158
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 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.
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Inside MSU
 
Inside MSU is a weekly cable news show, produced by students in the Broadcasting Department's Electronic Journalism class. The show features topics relevant to university campus life; airs for 10 weeks each semester; and is broadcast live on Thursdays with re-broadcasts throughout the week. Students have opportunity to research, produce, shoot and edit news segments for each show. The fifteen minute program also allows for experience in directing, anchoring, and crew positions necessary to produce a news show. Several shows each semester are critiqued by WCBS news director Dianne Doctor.
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Special Projects
 
In addition to campus generated programs students have opportunity to work on client-based projects, where their skills and talent are put to community use. Past clients for Special Projects have included the NJ Division for Youth and Family Services, the SIDS Center of NJ and Advocates for Bayonne Children.
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2007-08
Programming Schedule
Coming Month ...
From From MAY 20 - MAY 22, 2008, the MSU Broadcasting's weekly television show, CARPE DIEM, will air
ANIMAL CONSERVATION
"I'm an optimist, or I wouldn't be in the environmental business," says Dr. William Thomas,
Director of the NJ School of Conservation. However, if humans continue to overbreed
and don't change their lifestyle, other animals will be threatened: "we're trying to turn the
planet into something that serves our needs and as we do that, we crowd out other
creatures." Worldwide deforestation is threatening many species, including the solitary
Sumatran rhino and the tamarind in Brazil. Dr. Terri Roth, VP of Conservation Science
at the Cincinnatti Zoo, is working on saving the Sumatran rhino. The challenges she faces
are providing the rhinos with their favored high-fiber diet, and also getting these otherwise
solitary, territorial creatures to mate and breed. Dr. Tim Gunther, Director of the Bergen
County Zoo, notes how "zoos changed their whole focus" from recreational to conservation
centers; in a world in which the human population has doubled in just a few decades and other
species are dying off, zoos have become "the living ark of wildlife...There are species that exist
only in zoos and not in the wild." The zoo's education curator, Liz Carletta, says "the greatest
success is when we can release some of these animals into the wild" but in a human-dominated
world, "animals need our help."
This episode was produced by Patricia Piroh and Tania Ivanova of Broadcasting, directed by
Broadcasting major Kristine Bates, and hosted by Tania Ivanova.
The show will air the week of May 20 - May 22, 2008 on these stations (barring pre-emption):
CABLEVISION BERGEN Channel 77 Tuesday 5:00 pm
CABLEVISION MORRIS Channel 21 Wednesday 5:00 pm
CABLEVISION PATERSON Channel 75Wednesday 5:30 pm
CABLEVISION Oakland/Clifton Channel 76Thursday 3:00 pm
From May 27 - May 29, 2008, the MSU Broadcasting Department's weekly television
show, CARPE DIEM will air
Are Newspapers Dying a Slow Death?
When Mark Porter became editor-in-chief of The Montclair Times ten years ago, "I set
out to make it the best weekly on planet Earth. I have hired the best journalists that our
meager wages could hire." As the four-time winner of the NJ Press Association's "best
big weekly newspaper" Porter attributes the paper's success to the fact that "it's reflective
of the town we serve--people from all over the world, a town filled with activists...and a lot
of creative folks." However, other papers, like the Star-Ledger, have suffered plummetting
circulation rates due to competition from internet news, free internet access to newspapers,
and television news. What is the danger of relying on TV and internet news as opposed to
print journalism, and how is society losing out as print circulation rates fall and fewer reporters
are covering the news? Can print journalism survive the electronic onslaught?
This episode was produced and hosted by Bill Berlin of Political Science & Law and directed
by Broadcasting major Manuel Fuentes.
Barring pre-emption, CARPE DIEM will air on the following stations:
The show will air May 27 - May 29, 2008 on these stations
(barring pre-emption):
CABLEVISION BERGEN Channel 77 Tuesday 5:00 pm
CABLEVISION MORRIS Channel 21 Wednesday 5:00 pm
CABLEVISION PATERSON Channel 75Wednesday 5:30 pm
CABLEVISION Oakland/Clifton Channel 76Thursday 3:00 pm
Watch a current
Carpe Diem episode
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