Rare Media Opportunity
19th May 2005

Plans to help Black Country students launch their TV and film careers will come under the spotlight during a Sandwell media event, it has been revealed.

Sky TV is set to host a student channel which will broadcast programmes and films by students from the country's eight Media Centres Of Vocational Excellence (CoVE).

Students at Wolverhampton and Sandwell Media CoVE based at The City of Wolverhampton College and Sandwell College, are set to benefit from the move.

The scheme will be aired at a media employers' forum held on May 24 at the Lakeside Studios, Smethwick Campus of Sandwell College. Pete Whitehouse, Wolverhampton and Sandwell Media CoVE co-ordinator, said: "The Sky TV student channel is an amazing opportunity for all students at the eight media CoVEs located around the country. it means our students will have the chance to see their films and programmes broadcast nationally," he said.

"The project co-ordinator Dawn Simpson, from Grimsby, is coming to our forum event on May 24 to explain how it will work and how it will benefit Black Country media students," Mr Whitehouse added.

It will also showcase live rock music, a tour of the recording studio, students' work and a discussion chaired by former BBC broadcaster Lawrie Bloomfield MBE.

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