Game On From Day One

Produce and cover live sporting events — in the studio, on campus and across the nation

Game On From Day One

Erin Soltano takes photos for Creative Media

The B.S. degree in Sports Media provides students with course-specific training and experiential-learning opportunities to engage in the growing field of sports media. You will learn and apply the technical skills of covering sports events on deadline; producing live and recorded multimedia and broadcast content; and developing the conceptual skills of strategy, game theory and best practices. 

Your professors include experts in fantasy sports, esports and sports collectibles, including the degree director, who has received the college's Faculty Excellence Award. Ithaca College excels in teaching and innovation, and the Sports Media degree represents the best of both.

From Day One, you will immerse yourself in your major classes that give you a foundation to such career paths as play-by-play announcer, esports gamer, fantasy sports writer, sports anchor, field producer, sports information director, social media strategist, public relations professional and more.

Sports Media students supplement coursework with required internships and by working with student media and athletics, including the campus television station (ICTV), the campus radio stations (92 WICB and VIC), and the campus newspaper (Ithacan ). The Gridiron Report, Big Red Faceoff , Sports Final, and So You Think You Know Sports are long-running ICTV productions, entirely produced, directed, scripted and reported by students.

Students regularly intern with NBC to help its Olympic coverage, and they study and work in sports internships for a semester at our Los Angeles center, among other opportunities. Internship placements range from teams and universities to leagues and startups: ESPN, NBA, MLB, NFL, NHL, NCAA, PGA, MLL, WNBA, USTA, Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center, MetLife Stadium, CBS Sports, Fox Sports 1, NBC Sports, MLB Network, NBA Entertainment, Sports Illustrated, IMG, and Octagon Sports. They also intern right in Ithaca during the academic year at The Ivy League Digital Network affiliated with Cornell University athletics.

By the time you graduate, you’ll be prepared to lead, manage and create the next generation of sports media programming.

Clubs, Internships, and Student Media

Parkies at the '26 Olympics, the '26 Super Bowl and covering the '26 Washington Nationals
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NBC Olympics Internships

NBC has selected our students to intern for every winter and summer Olympics since 2006.

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Radio Row at Super Bowl LX
Radio Row at Super Bowl LX

Six Park School students served as members of the working press interviewing athletes and celebrities at Super Bowl LX.

Read more here.
Danielle Allentuck, Washington Post reporter covering the Nationals
Association for Women in Sports Media

IC has a chapter of the Association of Women in Sports Media dedicated to promoting professionalism and career development.

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Student sportscaster in suit and tie standing on a TV set.
Get in the Game Immediately

We expect our students to immerse themselves in their major from Day One. Every student-media production is staffed solely by students, from sideline reporter to play-by-play announcer, to director, camera operator and executive producer. You can do all of that and more in your first year. Join us!

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State-of-the-Art Facilities

Park houses over $5 million total assets including two state-of-the-art television studios; a sound stage; a remote TV broadcast truck with four high-def cameras; audio, radio, and photography studios; 14 media labs and classrooms; student workrooms for co-curricular media; and a 200-seat auditorium with 4K projection.

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Ed Cohen and Brendan Burke alumni and sports reporters
Alumni Careers Start Here

MSG Networks recently had IC alumni Brendan Burke and Ed Cohen sit down together for a piece on their Connections show to discuss how their careers at MSG started at Ithaca. 

Watch Their Interview Here
Katelyn Hutchison
Untold Athletes: Katelyn Hutchison

When Sports Media major Katelyn Hutchison isn't producing sports media, she's running track and field at Ithaca College. And when she's not running track, she's advocating for social justice: "There’s no reason why people with big platforms should not be promoting or talking about what’s going on. Everybody loves sports, so if sports allows themselves to give social justices a voice – then that’s a huge help.” 

SPORTS MEDIA PROGRAM CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have questions about the program and/or want to schedule an individualized meeting, please contact Professor Mead Loop, program director of Sports Media.

607-274-3047