Who We Are
Beach TV News is CSULB’s newly rebranded and relaunched student produced newscast which prepares students for careers in television news. Each week, students are put through a rigorous MMJ (multimedia journalist) bootcamp where they learn to write, shoot, and edit packages for TV and the web, as well as produce and direct during a live broadcast. The goal is to give students the skillset that will make them competitive and employable in the current journalism job climate.
Recent Accolades
2024 Broadcast Pacemaker Award, Associated Collegiate Press
2024 TV Station of the Year, College Media Association
2024 Best All-Around Newscast, Society of Professional Journalists
First place, Best TV Newscast, Associated Collegiate Press
First place, Best Broadcast News Story, Associated Collegiate Press
Second place, Best Sports Story, Associated Collegiate Press
Third place, Best Broadcast News Story, Associated Collegiate Press
Third place, Best Video Sportscast, College Media Association
Third place, Best TV Newscast, College Media Association
Getting Involved
There are many ways to get involved with BTVN. Several courses in the Department of Journalism & PR feed into BTVN productions:
- Jour 482 is our signature course. Students in this course are immersed in a real TV-newsroom experience and work under deadline pressure to produce a nightly newscast. (Prerequisite: JOUR 120 and JOUR 321 with a grade of “C” or better.) Students may repeat this course to a maximum of 6 units in different semesters.
- Jour 325 is our innovation course. Students learn how to engage younger audiences through the use of vertical video. (Prerequisite: JOUR 104 or JOUR 120.)
- Jour 321 is our introductory course. Students learn to shoot video with professional Sony cameras and learn to edit on Adobe Premiere Pro. (Prerequisite: JOUR 120 with a grade of “C” or better.)
Contributors
In Fall 2025 we launched our content creators program which allows contributors to publish their work across all our platforms including our nightly newscast, our IGTV and TikTok shows, our website, and/or our socials. The content creators program is ideal for students who are still working on prerequisites for the courses listed above but who are passionate about video and multimedia journalism and want to be involved with BTVN. If you are interested in becoming a contributor please email our Executive Producer of Multimedia, Skylar Stock <skylar.stock01@student.csulb.edu> or Professor Jesús Ayala <jesus.ayala@csulb.edu>.
Where to Find Us
Beach TV News is available on Beach TV as a 24/7 live stream. We are also broadcast to 100,000 homes on Spectrum Cable 95 and Frontier FiOS Channel 25 in Long Beach, and Spectrum Channel 28 in Lakewood. Additionally, Beach TV is available on streaming services Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV.
Instagram: @BeachTVNews
TikTok: @BeachTVNews
X: @BeachTVNews
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BeachTVNews
Contact
Jesús Ayala
Professor and Director, Beach TV News
jesus.ayala@csulb.edu
