The Evolution of LHS News
By Nicholas Porath, Staff Writer
Students of Logan High should be familiar with the news broadcasts shown four days a week at the beginning of fourth hour. The anchors give announcements, alerts, and describe the lunch menu for the day.
The LHS news began back in the early 1990’s headed by technology teacher Scott Harris, who still guides the broadcasting class today. At the time, LHS was introduced to Channel One, an educational news program, played through the school. After each broadcast, Mr. Harris would set up a live news feed through each classroom television, bringing announcements to the students.
The school news remained unchanged until the school received computers a few years later. The new technology allowed the announcements to be filmed and edited prior to showing them throughout the school.
When LHS changed the class schedule last year, the news had to be moved to a different time. During the first semester of last year, they played at the end of fourth hour. However, due to the time conflicts with teachers’ lesson plans, the time was changed to the beginning of fourth hour.
Frequent news anchor Robert Joseph Metcalf III, said, “There are benefits to anchoring during both schedules. Before, we had more time to film it and get it prepared, but now we work faster, because of our time limit.” Metcalf has anchored on the LHS news for 3 years now, both before and after the schedule change.
Another addition to the school news is a program to allow graphics and captions on screen while news is playing. This system allows more variety in editing and visual aid. This system was added last year and makes adding in videos, captions, and credits a lot easier to manage. Students may notice the added captions and graphics next time they watch the news.
The LHS news would not be where it is today without change and improvement. The school news has been running for almost 20 years and is still running strong today.