Published Tuesday, October 28, 2008
CEC, NuLink merge video production
The Newnan Times-Herald
NuLink announced plans Tuesday to merge its video production facilities with Central Educational Center in Newnan.
Bruce Jones, director of NuLink, and Coweta Schools Superintendent Blake Bass announced the newly formed partnership before a group of business, education and political leaders who were visiting the charter school as part of Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education's "Bus Trip Across Georgia" tour.
Bass said the school system was looking for a third business partner to join Argos Systems and Honda at the career academy; and they found it in NuLink, a local digital service provider of cable, phone and Internet services.
Mark Whitlock, CEC's CEO, said NuLink's move of its production studios from Jackson Street to the classroom-sized sets at the school on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive aligns with CEC's added goal to have more "physical co-locations" with businesses and industries.
NuLink's studio, expected to be ready by January, will complement CEC's existing broadcasting and video production classes taught by Kevin Pullen, director of video and media production at CEC.
"The difference is now their projects are going to be broadcast," said Dean Jackson, Coweta Schools spokesman.
"NuLink will be able to teach students at this new level," Bass added.
Matt White, NuLink's production coordinator, said while the department works with interns now, its partnership with CEC will eventually lead to more internship possibilities for the high school students enrolled at CEC. It could grow from two students to more than 50 as the program develops, he said.
NuLink currently offers two cable channels, Channel 7 and 10, which offer school and community news, respectively.
Jones said Channel 7 will be expanded into a 24-hour channel.
"It'll be totally scripted, produced and broadcast by the schools," he said.
Jones added that Channel 10 will be expanded into "a major news and information source" for the community. Local new programming will be produced daily and it'll include hi-definition programming, more remote productions, video on demand and video-streaming on the Internet.
