True Blue TV Event Productions (TBTVEP) continues expanding its capabilities to better serve the University’s production needs. True Blue TV Event Productions employs a small full-time professional staff and over 100 student workers who are integral to the production of the many events on campus. Our student workers not only earn a competitive wage, but they also gain valuable experience to supplement the formal education they receive at MTSU.
True Blue TV Event Productions is responsible for producing all major University events, as well as events for colleges, departments, centers, and other groups and individuals at the University, and off-campus events sponsored by University groups, upon request. These events include concerts, major announcements, fraternity and sorority events, Board of Trustees meetings, Commencement ceremonies, athletic events, signature events, and more.
Due to the increased importance of video assets, TBTVEP has greatly expanded its video production lineup. This Includes multi-cam capabilities, livestreaming, creation of custom marketing videos, speakers, interviews, and other video needs. A new podcast studio has been a resource that allows TBTVEP to quickly and easily create video projects for numerous campus groups. The team recently worked with Graduate Studies to produce a podcast series for research projects conducted on the MTSU campus. Philosophy and Religious Studies also requested videos created for their website of speakers invited to their Lyceum.
TBTVEP has produced videos for the Jones College of Business, Daniels Center, American Democracy Project, Alumni Services, and many other departments and groups on campus. TBTVEP partnered with MTSU Athletics and Murphy Center to develop a new state-of-the-art control room to produce events at Floyd Stadium, Murphy Center, and the new Student-Athletic Performance Center. This, coupled with the new sound system installed in Murphy Center, has raised the standard for event production at MTSU.
The partnership with MTSU Athletics has been incredibly valuable to the University community. It continues this fall as TBTVEP produces the Party in the Grove events for home football games. Expect to see this team doing even more things to benefit students, faculty, staff, and the University community.
True Blue TV, meanwhile, has been focused on improving its programming and offering more livestreaming of important University events.
• True Blue TV recently unveiled free iOS and Android phone apps and a free Amazon Fire TV app to provide MTSU-On-Demand programming to our viewers. They can be found on Amazon.com and in the respective phone stores. These complement our free Roku and Apple TV apps, as well as our website.
• True Blue TV is broadening our capacity to serve the diverse student population at MTSU by enhancing access through closed captioning.
• TBTV produced and broadcast 234 television episodes in 2024, totaling 172.3 hours.
• To date for MTSU’s Out of the Blue, we have seen 1,200 downloads by 84 stations from 20 states.
• Our other 50+ productions have been downloaded, to date, 5,314 times by 676 stations in 42 states, the District of Columbia, and Cape Town, South Africa.