Department of Communication

What is UTP?

University Television Productions, a media production unit of the Boise State Department of Communication. UTP provides students with hands-on experience in video production and serves the BSU campus and community by recording and broadcasting a wide-range of educational, cultural and sports programs.
Equipment Room Schedule for currently enrolled production students.

Production Services:

UTP has a full range of video and audio production services, employing digital cameras, 3 multi-camera mobile switcher units. We offer digital editing and other post-production services including animation. In addition to our archival and broadcast work on campus, UTP provides video production services on a fee basis to a variety of campus and community organizations. We produce high quality informational, promotional and cultural programs including PSAs.  For more information call Nathan Snyder at 426-2982 or Susan Randall at 426-3468.
nathanielsnyder@boisestate.edu                    srandall@boisestate.edu

Program Information:

UTP airs programs weekly on two cable channels: TVCTV Channel 11 and University TV Channel 95.  For information on our TVCTV programming, check TVCTV’s program guide printed in the Boise Weekly, or click here www.tvctvonline.org .  For information about UTP programs call 426-2239.

To Find past Programs:

UTP has over 2000 of its past programs housed in Special Collections the second floor of Albertsons Library, and most are available to students and faculty.  Projects produced on consignment are archived but not available for circulation.  Popular programs available include The Iron Chef Boise I, II, III, theater production In the Sawtooths, and  lectures by Abby Hoffman, Molly Ivins, John Stossel, Jesse Jackson, and many others. To access this archive, contact the special collections at the Albertson Library.

Work Study Opportunties:

UTP employs between 8 and 15 work-study students each semester to work on studio and remote broadcast production teams, and operate the Communication Equipment Room. Work-study students interested in an application, click here: UTP Application:

Course Credit Opportunities:

UTP is also an elective Communication course: Comm 117/317 Communication Activities.  Students get hands-on experience in camera and audio operation in the studio and on remote shoots.  This class provides instruction in multi-camera and single-camera field recording of:  gymnastics, wrestling, rugby, and volleyball matches for the Athletics Department, seasonal musical concerts for the Music Department as well as lectures, discussions and theater performances. Students may enroll for 1-3 credits and may re-enroll for credit in subsequent semesters.  For more information, click here Classes Offered

UTP History:

Over the years UTP has recorded and broadcasted thousands of university events. Since 1986, UTP has taped many distinguished lecturers and other campus events including many non-revenue producing athletic events for broadcast and archival purposes. In this way students and community members could watch taped programs they could not actually attend.  UTP has produced programs for many community organizations, such as training videos, dual language presentations, public service announcements and commercials, some of which have aired on commercial television stations.  Many UTP production students build their resume with the experience gained in the program.

UTP Staff:

The UTP Staff includes Dr. Pete Lutze, Susan Randall, and Nathan Snyder. Dr. Lutze has supervised University Television Production since 1990 and integrated it into the curriculum of the Department of Communication.