A new season of Rocky Mountain PBS' long-running program "Super School News" kicks off this week, as students, teachers and volunteers meet with producers for annual orientation. Hosted at Rocky Mountain PBS' studios in downtown Denver, the event will include a keynote address from Bertha Lynn from Denver's 7News.
"Super School News" is a mini television series written, illustrated and presented statewide on Rocky Mountain PBS television by fifth and sixth grade elementary students. First going on the air February 6, 1980, "Super School News" is the longest-running program on Rocky Mountain PBS' KRMA-Channel 6.
Each year, before taping begins, producers conduct orientation for students, teachers and volunteers. The agenda for this year's orientation is as follows:
9:30-10:00 Schools arrive for registration
10:00-10:10 Welcome from Patty Boyd and Lou Anne Nesheim, co-chairs of "Super School News," and James Morgese, president and general manager of Rocky Mountain PBS
10:10-10:30 Technical explanation of "Super School News" from Executive Producer Cynthia Hessin and Director Trux Simmons
10:30-11:00 Responsibilities of the newscaster (studio) and Roles of faculty advisors & volunteer production crew (teleconference room)
11:05-11:45 Keynote speaker: Bertha Lynn
11:45-noon Q & A
About 'Super School News'
Each school involved in "Super School News" selects two students to represent their school as student newscasters and up to four students as student reporters. Newscasters and reporters from each school present a two-minute televised news program about their school. This program is aired five to six times during an assigned one-week period.
Student newscasters, along with a faculty advisor from their school, write a script about their school and design visual material to accompany the script. A volunteer production team from Rocky Mountain PBS meets with student newscasters two weeks prior to taping to review and rehearse the script. Student newscasters and reporters then tape the final newscast at Rocky Mountain PBS.
"Super School News" is shown on Channel 6 in Denver, Channel 8 in Pueblo/Colorado Springs and Channel 18 in Grand Junction four times each day:
10:25 a.m.
10:55 a.m.
2:25 p.m. (Sundays only, 2:55 p.m.)
4:55 p.m. (Saturdays only, 5:25 p.m.)
The new season is scheduled to begin October 15.
Rocky Mountain PBS' studios are located at 1089 Bannock Street in Denver, in the Golden Triangle.
