Mass Communication, Sports Media
If you tend to see a story at play within every game, match or competition, you’re likely interested in sports media. We challenge you to shoot and edit videos, create and conduct interviews with players and coaches, produce post-game content and script play-by-play and color commentary for live broadcasts. Unlike at a four-year university, you gain hands-on experience the first game of the season.
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Score Your Sports Media Degree
Travel with our nationally recognized athletic teams and cover their stories for our student-led media outlets, The Lantern newspaper, The Grizzly magazine and our radio and television stations, KBTL 88.1 The Grizz and BCTV Cable Channel 20. Your work from the sideline may also be posted on our social media platforms.
Books and Tuition Scholarship
Earn an in-state books and tuition scholarship, even if you’re not a Mass Communications major. Click here to set up a scholarship interview.
Broadcast Your Goals
Our industry-experienced instructors give you opportunities to grow your sports media marketing and reporting skills, including travelling each year to the Kansas Association of Broadcasters (KAB) Seminar hosted by the Kansas City Royals. You have the chance to submit broadcasts for critique by professional sports reporters. The KAB and the Kansas Collegiate Media have awarded and recognized many of our students for stories and photography.
We offer in-state books and tuition scholarships for our Sports Media students and other Mass Communications students, even if you’re not a Mass Communications major.
What You Can Do with a Sports Media Degree
Our program prepares you to transfer to a four-year university or pursue a career in such positions like:
- Social media coordinator
- Athletics media director
- Sports broadcaster
Classes You'll Take
These are some examples of courses in our Sports Media program.
- Reporting
- Broadcast Reporting
- Photojournalism
- Audio Production
- Sports Media Practicum
Mass Communication, Sports Media (Associate of Applied Science)
Additional Information
Check Out Our Student-Led Media Outlets
Butler Radio KBTL 88.1 FM
The Grizz is the student-run radio station for Butler Community College and the surrounding communities. We flavor our Rock-Jazz format with a wide variety of specialty music and talk shows.
The Lantern
The Lantern is the largest circulating community college newspaper in Kansas, known for its thorough coverage of campus and community news, thought-provoking op/ed page and accuracy in reporting.
Butler Student Media YouTube Channel
The Butler Student Media YouTube channel is where you can check out some of our Mass Communication students' work throughout the years.
