Facilities

The Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism prides itself on providing state-of-the-art facilities that empower journalists to excel in their craft. With cutting-edge technology at their fingertips, journalists have access to fully equipped television studios, complete with professional cameras, lighting setups, and green screens.

AUC TV

AUC TV began broadcasting in 1995 in AUC’s Tahrir Square Campus. The student-run channel is technically and editorially managed by Adham center faculty and staff under the supervision of the director of the Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism. Undergraduate, as well as television and digital journalism MA students, supply programming for the channel through coursework. This is in addition to the Center’s coverage of major events on campus. Students practically apply their television journalism skills which include; writing, editing, producing and directing stories and shows to bring the AUC community the latest news, current affairs programs, features, and live events taking place on and off campus. Programming also includes content from the Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism’s archives. Showcasing JRMC and TVDJ students' weekly shows and unique feature stories. The station broadcasts through a closed-circuit YouTube channel.

Equipped with streaming encoders, the Adham Center is able to stream continuous broadcast to all television sets on campus. Broadcast materials may be fed directly from the studio, live from other locations on campus, or from a pre-recorded material.

State-of-the-Art Facilities

Studio

Three-camera broadcast-quality full HD studio, three-camera broadcast-quality SD studio. Both studios are connected to digital control rooms with state-of-the-art video switchers, audio mixers, video tape recorders, and graphics machines. The studio is also connected to a news automation system.

News Workflow

The center has the only fully automated news workflow facilities in the Middle East and North Africa region. Unlike many universities, the Adham Center’s facilities provide a complete simulation of the workflow used in professional television newsrooms from ingest to playout. The newsroom is equipped with a newsroom computer system (ENPS) and a media asset management system that allows for low-resolution editing and an automation system all of which are fully integrated into the studio.

Studio with cameras with students working with the equipment

Field Production

The center is equipped with both high-definition and DV professional field cameras (6 Sony PMW100 and 1 HXR-NX3D 10 Sony HVR-Z1, 6 Sony PD150, 15 Sony PD10 and 5 Sony HVR-A1E) plus accessories and Live field transmission system.

students working with equipment for editing

Post-production and High Resolution Editing Facilities

The center has two video editing suites equipped with 30 Final Cut Pro 7 non-linear editing workstations plus 15 MacBook laptops; also available with Final Cut Pro software
A (DV/Beta-cam) linear edit pack, a fully isolated audio booth, a dubbing rack to convert between different television systems and formats.

digital media studio room with students working with equipment

Central Apparatus Room

Holds the center’s servers’ core equipment and is the central storage facility to which all the labs are connected.

students working in the studio with media equipment

Ingest Room

Allows for playback and recording to and from DV/HD/Beta-cam equipment and recording material from news agencies such as Associated Press (AP) onto the central storage.

Tape Library

Adham Center has an extensive video library containing over 1,000 Beta-Cam, DVCAM and DV tapes that go back to 1988 when the center was founded. Tapes include raw footage, edit masters, video magazine shows and interviews with prominent Egyptian and international figures, major news events and most recently, footage of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution.