Dan Slentz has departed his TV engineering role to pursue a career in academia.
A longtime contributor to Radio World, Slentz is now the director of Blue Streak Media, a student-led media agency at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio. He was formerly the director of engineering and technology for Gray Media-owned TV stations WOIO, WUAB and WTCL in Cleveland.
Working in the university’s Tim Russert Department of Communication, as director of Blue Streak Media Slentz will oversee JCU TV Studios, WJCU(FM), which recently was recognized as “Station of the Year” by the International Student Broadcasting Championship, and Carroll News, a student paper.
Manager of WJCU radio, Jasen Sokol, now reports to Slentz.
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This semester, Slentz is also teaching an intro to video production class called “Video Bootcamp.” His first class is full with 15 students. John Carroll University is a small, private, liberal arts university with less than 3,000 undergraduate students.
“The Tim Russert Department of Communication prepares students to become critical thinkers and effective communicators by exploring all areas of communication from social media, to radio, to integrated marketing, to digital media and more,” said Slentz in an email to Radio World. “With a Russert degree, students can focus on a variety of media and arenas, and build a career in public relations, television, radio, film, corporate communication, social media and beyond.”
Dan Slentz has more than four decades’ technical and on-air experience in radio, TV, cable and A/V including service at AFN (AFRTS) in Spain while serving in the U.S. Air Force. He has designed and engineered large 4K TV facilities to Low Power FM stations.
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