Directors: Kelsey Dennehy and Josh Bode
The IUSTV Sports Department offers students hands-on experience in sports broadcasting. Tapings are on Wednesday nights in the state-of-the-art Beckley Studio in the Media School’s Franklin Hall.
There are opportunities to participate as beat reporters, on-air talents, production crew members, and more.
IUSTV Sports reporters swept the Sports Reporting for Student Television category, placing 1st, 2nd, & 3rd, at the SPJ-Indiana “Best in Indiana Journalism” 2018.
The sports department produces two shows:
Hoosier Sports Nite
Hoosier Sports Nite is a weekly sports news program covering all things sports at IU.
Awards
At the 2023 IASB College Broadcasting Awards, Hoosier Sports Nite placed 1st in the Video Sports Program category.
At the 2021 IASB College Competition Awards, Hoosier Sports Nite placed 2nd in the Television Sports Program category.
Hoosier Sports Nite placed 2nd at the 2018-2019 Pinnacle College Media Awards in the Best Television Sportscast category.
The Toss Up
The Toss Up is a topical show with a rotating set of student panelists who discuss and analyze a specific IU sports team or professional sports league/event each week.
