Tour GHS-TV, Learn About Fine Arts Dept. During Thursday's GHS Open House
The annual Germantown High School Creative and Performing Arts PPAG Open House is being merged into the Germantown High School Open House set for this Thursday night from 6 until 7:30.
The annual Germantown High School Creative and Performing Arts PPAG Open House is being merged into the Germantown High School Open House set for this Thursday night from 6 until 7:30.
Along with the normal events planned for the school-wide open house, parents and students are invited to attend a special GHS CAPA meeting and a performance by the GHS choir. Fine arts students will also lead tours of the department, which will include the school’s community theatre, the Poplar Pike Playhouse, and its community television station, GHS-TV. Parents will have the opportunity to sign up for the Poplar Pike Arts Guild and other parent support groups.
The Germantown High School Open House is Thursday, August 21 from 6-7:30 p.m. All parents should report to their student’s 1st period class for a brief welcome video. After 1st period, parents may visit their student’s classrooms and meet the teachers. Bells will not ring to move parents from class to class during the event. The night is structured as a “meet and greet.” Parents who would like to have a conference with a teacher can sign up for the next designated conference day, which is September 19.
Winning Proposal Gives GHS-TV Students Their Own Show
Four students from Germantown High School's award-winning television station just earned themselves an even larger audience. GHS-TV seniors Sydney Armstrong, Sean Byrne, Kaif Gilani and Maclean Mayers won Shelby County School's district-wide video contest Show Us Awesome.
Four students from Germantown High School's award-winning television station just earned themselves an even larger audience. GHS-TV seniors Sydney Armstrong, Sean Byrne, Kaif Gilani and Maclean Mayers won Shelby County School's district-wide video contest Show Us Awesome.
Students from all over the system entered for a chance at their own show that would air on Comcast C19 and on the system's online media site, as well as be publicized through SCS' many other channels of social media and communications.
The GHS-TV quartet will start production soon on Around the Block, a monthly show that will highlight subjects impacting today's students. During a recent production meeting, talks centered on including as many field segments as possible. The students seemed eager to branch out to new communities and to make this show a truly unique addition to the ones already being produced by GHS-TV students.
"I think this is a great way to get the entire community excited about the many great things happening around town," said Byrne. "We'll focus on our school system, but we also want to showcase the pride so many people have in Memphis."
Established in 1982, GHS-TV is a community television station operated by the students of Germantown High School. GHS-TV is seen online at ghstv.org and its programming airs in the Memphis area on Comcast C19 and throughout the region on ION Media. GHS-TV serves as a model facility that continues to produce original programming, inform citizens and educate young people interested in telecommunications careers. It has been named the nation’s best access station an unprecedented 11 times by the Alliance for Community Media. Its students have won over 145 Hometown Video Awards, 44 regional “Student Emmys” and 2 national “Student Emmys.” For more information on GHS-TV visit ghstv.org. You can follow GHS-TV on Facebook and Twitter (@ghstv).
Allison Long is the executive producer for GHS-TV. Ted Beasley is the senior producer. Bobby Ramsay serves as the studio supervisor. Matt Sloan is the SCS videographer. Ashleigh Williams and Catie Broadwater are supervising producers. Catherine Cohen is the business manager.
GHS-TV Students Claim Trio of National Media Awards
The Alliance for Community Media named GHS-TV's student programming best in the nation for Newscast, Seniors programming and Government Profile at the annual Hometown Media Awards.
Germantown High School's award-winning television studio just earned a few more pieces of hardware to add to its already unprecedented collection. The Alliance for Community Media named GHS-TV's student programming best in the nation for Newscast, Seniors programming and Government Profile at the annual Hometown Media Awards.
The Alliance for Community Media is a national organization representing over 1,000 community access stations. The awards recognize outstanding achievement in all fields of access broadcasting. Television stations from across the nation submit programs for consideration in the competition.
The three wins give GHS-TV a total of 149 Hometown awards, more than any other station in the US. Leading the way this year was GHS-TV's student newscast, Wake Up, Germantown!. Mentors, hosted by Tracey Speake, won in the Seniors category and Spotlight on Germantown picked up a win for Government Profile.
Established in 1982, GHS-TV is a community television station operated by the students of Germantown High School. GHS-TV is seen online at ghstv.org and its programming airs in the Memphis area on Comcast C19 and throughout the region on ION Media. GHS-TV serves as a model facility that continues to produce original programming, inform citizens and educate young people interested in telecommunications careers. It has been named the nation’s best access station an unprecedented 11 times by the Alliance for Community Media. Its students have won 44 regional “Student Emmys” and 2 national “Student Emmys.” For more information on GHS-TV visit ghstv.org. You can follow GHS-TV on Facebook and Twitter (@ghstv).
Allison Long is the executive producer for GHS-TV. Ted Beasley is the senior producer. Bobby Ramsay serves as the studio supervisor. Matt Sloan is the SCS videographer. Ashleigh Williams and Catie Broadwater are supervising producers. Catherine Cohen is the business manager.
Alum & Emmy winner Matt Sloan newest addition to GHS-TV Staff
GHS-TV students should gain valuable insights from the station's newest staff member. Alum Matt Sloan returns to Germantown High after winning multiple Emmys for his work at Southern Illinois University.
GHS-TV welcomes a familiar face back into its family. GHS class of 2011 graduate Matt Sloan has joined the GHS-TV staff as an Audio/Video Production Technician. A recent graduate of Southern Illinois University he is excited to come back to his roots.
“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to come back and give back to the fine arts department that has taught me so much.” said Sloan.
Sloan’s will teach students creative and technical skills, serve as a supervisor for TV programs and produce content for both GHS-TV and Shelby County Schools. Sloan said he is looking forward to sharing his TV knowledge with the students. He earned a degree in Radio, Television and Digital Media for SIU. During his time there, he became the executive producer of alt.news 26:46, for which he won a college television Emmy award for “Best Magazine Style Program.”
Sloan was heavily involved with GHS-TV as a student. Along with being general manager of the studio, he directed Live Coverage 2010 Germantown Festival and Election Night 2010 along with monthly tapings of Crosstalk and Wake Up, Germantown!. Sloan is the only GHS-TV student to win the Jim McKay Memorial Scholarship, which is a national honor given each year by the Emmy organization. He also performed in the Poplar Pike Playhouse productions The Secret Garden, The Farnsworth Invention, Parade, The Beaux' Stratagem, Curtains, Beauty and the Beast, Ragtime and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
He is not the first Mr. Sloan that has worked at GHS-TV. His father, Paul Sloan, is a 1981 alumni who also came back to teach at GHS-TV. Sloan’s father then went on to become the Creative Service Director at the Fox affiliate in Memphis. He currently serves in that same role for the Fox affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona.
Faculty members and students are looking forward to having Matt Sloan on board with both GHS-TV and the Poplar Pike Playhouse.
“I’ve heard so many great things about Mr. Sloan here as a student,” current senior Ben Taylor said. “I’m excited to for the opportunity to work with him at GHS-TV.
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GHS-TV Expands Reach Thanks to Shelby County Schools
“The students involved in GHS-TV are some of the most talented and hardworking you’ll ever come across,” said GHS-TV Executive Producer Allison Long. “Over the years the students in this program have been consistently recognized on a national level. It’s great that the work they do here at Germantown High will be shared with even more of Shelby County.”
Germantown High School and its award-winning television studio have been mentioned in the local news quite a bit lately. For the students of GHS-TV, though, this summer has been far too busy to worry over the politics of the day. The station’s current crop of interns have been helping complete an exciting transition that will see the students’ work aired to even more of Shelby County.
GHS-TV is partnering with Shelby County Schools’ C19 to share programming between the two educational television facilities. GHS-TV’s local programming and much of its syndicated content are now aired to Comcast customers throughout the Memphis area on C19.
“The students involved in GHS-TV are some of the most talented and hardworking you’ll ever come across,” said GHS-TV Executive Producer Allison Long. “Over the years the students in this program have been consistently recognized on a national level. It’s great that the work they do here at Germantown High will be shared with even more of Shelby County.”
While GHS-TV is no longer airing in Germantown on Comcast Channel 17, live streaming and a video archive are still available at ghstv.org. The station’s local programming also will still be aired on ION Media. GHS-TV’s programming schedule has seen a major increase in student-produced work, an aspect of the schedule expected to grow even more through the partnership with C19. The two groups hope to collaborate on programs geared towards student life, community events and school system news.
Aside from collaborations with C19, the students of GHS-TV will still create the type of programming that has made it one of the nation’s premiere educational television facilities. The students will continue to produce talk shows from its monthly Access Together Series and live specialty programs like Election Night 2014. GHS-TV students also will still be seen Saturday mornings on WMC-TV as part of the News 101 series and throughout the school year on the campus newscast Wake Up, Germantown!.
Established in 1982, GHS-TV is a community television station operated by the students of Germantown High School. GHS-TV is seen online at ghstv.org and its programming airs in the Memphis area on Comcast C19 and throughout the region on ION Media. GHS-TV serves as a model facility that continues to produce original programming, inform citizens and educate young people interested in telecommunications careers. It has been named the nation’s best access station an unprecedented 11 times by the Alliance for Community Media. Its students have won over 145 Hometown Video Awards, 44 regional “Student Emmys” and 2 national “Student Emmys.” For more information on GHS-TV visit ghstv.org. You can follow GHS-TV on Facebook and Twitter (@ghstv).
Allison Long is the executive producer for GHS-TV. Ted Beasley is the senior producer. Bobby Ramsay serves as the studio supervisor. Matt Sloan is the SCS videographer. Catherine Cohen is the business manager.