Hi, I’m Andy Baddish.

I’m Assistant Professor in Communication Arts.

Welcome to Bergen Community College.

When you become a student here at Bergen, you get a lot of hands-on experience. We have a state-of-the-art facility, and the studio is really up-to-the-minute.

We shoot on the lastest equipment: DV, minicams—you name it, we have it. And it’s all, for the most part, as I said, brand new. And you get hands-on experience.

There’s a lot of book learning, too, but you get the ability to come in and work with cameras every day, work with lighting, switch cameras back and forth, understand how a television show gets put together, understand how segments fit in, understand how commercials get integrated in, and how the entire program tells a language of its own. So, it’s a very extensive program, and it’s not, as I tell my students, it’s not make-believe television. You, in fact, are really doing television. And there are some days, if you thrive on chaos; this is the place to be.