By Jessica Coomes

During auditions that went late into the night, veteran and rookie TV-2 reporters and anchors were scattered in the studio hallways, some reading their scripts, others re-writing the scripts - but all giving it their best.

About 85 students auditioned Aug. 27. Only about 50 earned spots on screen.

They each re-wrote news stories to read on the news set, complete with a camera recording and a slow-moving TelePrompTer.

All prospective talent - anchors and entertainment, weather and sports reporters - were chosen by a panel of judges, made of JMC students and faculty members.

Some of those experiences are chronicled in the following pages - a few that made it. A couple that didn't.

Freshmen Julie Bercik and Megan Grote heard about the auditions in Introduction to Mass Communication. Bercik's the weather reporter on the 5:30 Thursday news. Grote's looking for other ways to get involved in JMC.

Andy Gala, a pre-med major, didn't make it when he was a freshman two years ago. After his second TV-2 audition, he's earned his spot as an entertainment reporter on Friday's 5:30 broadacast.

Pam Neroni, a senior news major, is doing the news once again this year. After two semesters of sports reporting and one semester of weather reporting, she's now an anchor.

And, with two university degrees under his belt, including an MBA, self-proclaimed news junkie Garvin Carrington auditioned, but now he'll have to find another way to connect to the news.

Each student's story is diverse and makes for interesting reading.

Click on the links at the right to read their stories.

TV-2 news broadcasts go out to the university and to area communities at 5:30 and 6:30 p.m., along with student-run primetime programming. It's Channel 2 on campus and Channel 16 on Warner Cable off campus. Prof. Gary Hanson is TV-2 adviser

KSU students listen to instructions for TV-2 tryouts and then give it a go with live camera. Photos by Maria Ho and Sarah McCrory.

VIDEO Videographer Megan Gintner chronicles the TV-2 tryouts from when prospective reporters get audition instructions from TV-2 staffers, to when they write and practice their scripts, to when they give it a shot on camera, and finally, to checking the list to see if they were selected. Click here to view it.

Good news and bad news for freshmen Julie Bercik and Megan Grote

News anchor Pam Neroni was "petrified"

Andy Gala succeeds second time around

MBA grad Garvin Carrington tries a new field

TV-2 board members face tough decisions

Here are TV-2 staffers for Fall 2003

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