In the mid-80s, the rise of technology led to the creation of a TV studio over at North Lake Campus, for a program named Video Technology. Former professor Andy Chiles said the program was small and the process was slow in the beginning.

“We had little splicing blocks. You’d lay the tape in there, cut it with a razor blades and then find your next cut and put it in the splicing block and tape them together,” Chiles said.

While cutting-in film took minutes, cutting-in digital editing takes only a few seconds. The biggest change in North Lake was the switch from analog to digital.

“And a lot of times, I was learning right with the students,” Chiles said.

“The world had switched to HD. We were able to get a grant to upgrade the studio with several hundred thousand dollars-worth of equipment,” Professor Timothy Dougherty said.

“I want our program to be The Program and we want to make you ready,” Professor Sharie Vance said.

“And one here. This is gonna drive this speaker,” program lead Greg Ruuska said.” What’s the problem? The overproduction on fog.”

“Yeah, we need more marketing. It’s hard. It’s not an easy thing to do. If it was, everybody would be doing it,” Vance said. “Don’t let the technology scare you. If you don’t know it, we’ll get you there. At least, enough.