Ball State Sports Link is an immersive learning experience. The program allows students to write, report, shoot, produce and host a variety of sports programs.

The program is the FIRST and ONLY program in the NATION where students are totally immersed in sports and electronic media.

In two semesters, Ball State Sports Link immersion produced:

• 16 live sporting events for television with a remote production truck
• produced 10 television shows
• wrote, shot and produced over 100 feature packages on Ball State student-athletes

In the Fall of 2009, each student logged nearly 500 “real-life” sports experience to combine for well over 5,000 student hours for sports media and production. As a whole, in two semesters students have dedicated over 12,000 hours for sports production .

Ball State Sports Link will be supervised by a TCOM faculty member (Chris Taylor), graduate assistant (Steven Albritton) and a Teleplex professional staff member (Bill Bryant).

During the semester, students will produce a broad range of media from live remote productions, live-to-tape events, television programs for WIPB-TV and Cardinal Vision (campus), student-athlete features and web casts. Other facets of the immersion program include radio, newspapers, podcasts and the use of mobile technology and interactivity via the web.

TCOM is a member of one of the largest undergraduate communication colleges in the country -- the College of Communication, Information and Media.

The Sports Link offices and studios are located in the Ball Communications Building, while the David Letterman Communication and Media Building is a world-class facility offering state-of-the-art options for all students.