Scroll Broadcasting is a new addition to the Scroll Newspaper that deals with the more visual side of news. They partner with Scroll to report on the relevant campus and local news.
"Students that would take the broadcasting class Comm 362 ... wanted to pursue careers ... in anchoring or sportscasting... (but) we didn't have anything," said Steven Vest, the media production coordinator at BYU-Idaho. "So I approached the student media general manager and the department chair about creating a new practicum."
The students who take the practicum are in charge of creating the various segments included in the weekly broadcast. The broadcast anchors are rotated each week so all the students interested have the opportunity to anchor.
"Students that are on camera are really great, and they have a passion for it which comes across in the episodes," Vest said. "A lot of them are light-hearted, upbeat and entertaining, which is how we wanted it. We wanted it to be entertaining, not so much like the 10 o'clock news. (We) needed to appeal to a college demographic."
Lauren Parker, a student in the practicum, is one of the broadcasting anchors but she also has other responsibilities.
"I have a really fun segment called Crossroad Connections. I do a lot of field interviews," Parker said. "I get to go to the Crossroads and meet new people and ask them questions and get people's different hot takes and opinions on different things ... I'm in charge of writing my script for my segment and then also anchoring every now and then and it's really fun."
Andy Ordonez, another student in the practicum, is in charge of covering sports and anchoring for Scroll Broadcasting.
"I was like, this is an opportunity to get experience, and so I just took it; and I've been liking it so far. It's really fun," Ordonez said. "It helps me to be creative and be, like, 'OK what's in store for this week?'...It just gives me opportunities to be able to meet new people to learn new things are going on campus."
Hannah Sterzer and Savannah Haddox work as producers of the weekly broadcast episodes. They're in charge of running the takes and making sure the anchors know which cameras to look at and that they read their lines correctly among other responsibilities.
"Mainly (we) are the go-between organizers between meetings with all the anchors (and) making sure that everything gets done on time," said Haddox. "We do a lot of the editing for the episodes, make sure that the script is done on time (and) just kind of make sure that everything runs smoothly."
Sterzer and Haddox were part of the first group of students who took part in the TV news broadcasting practicum.
"We kind of started this idea last semester ... that was the pilot," said Haddox. "(Sterzer) was the main producer; I was one of the anchors."
Haddox explained the practicum's goals for this semester.
"We really wanted to get it going and get it shown," Haddox said. "And so I got hired as the co-producer. So now we both work together to get these episodes out."
Haddox explained more about she felt during the production process.
"The first episode going out was really awesome (but) it was so stressful ... knowing that other people are watching it besides us," Haddox said. "And now that people are, more and more people are starting to watch it now."
New episodes are uploaded every Friday to Scroll website and on Youtube.