GreyComm Studios



GreyComm Studios provides its students an opportunity to gain experience in the field of broadcast and media production. We operate throughout the entire school year and welcome students from all disciplines. We work toward fulfilling the Jesuit motto of Ad Maiorem de Glorium (For the Greater Glory of God) through fostering an environment in which all students, faculty, and staff can create quality programming that best reflects the diversity of Loyola.

It all began with TGN 70, a name most current Loyola students have never heard. In the early 90′s, a student by the name of Larry Noto produced a talk show that he would periodically broadcast over the Loyola cable system. A decade later, four students saw an opportunity to build on what Larry had tried years earlier and produce an entire network of student produced programming.

In 2001, three students approached Father Ridley, president of Loyola at the time, about starting the first 24-hour network. With WLOY-radio making it’s launch at that time, the only means for launching the TV station was a completely student-run effort. Father Ridley gave them the go-ahead and less than a year later, the station was launched.

Joe, BJ, Kevin

At 8am on February 27, 2002, what was then known as TGN “The Greyhound Network” began its first broadcast day on channel’s 49 and 70. The day started with school announcements and syndicated programming. At 8pm that evening Newsroom 70, the first student produced TV show in a decade hit the airwaves.

A half hour later, Fate Date, a blind date show that would go on to become TGN’s signature show, made its debut. The dream was officially a reality. Loyola finally had its own TV network.

In 2004, Joe Salvati and Alan Danzis, co-founders of TGN, relinquished control, turning the station over to the Communication Department in hopes to enhance it for students to come. With that change came the first name change: WLOY-TV.

In 2007, H. Jay Dunmore took the position as WLOY-TV’s operation manager.

Jay, Steve, and Eric

He assembled a group of board members who produced programming and developed the website for the station.

Student leaders Eric Strand  and Stephen Gallagher, embraced the vision for the student club and membership quickly grew to over sixty members.

GreyComm had grown to serve as a multimedia facility where all digital media specializations could work together in using converging media and software tools.

 

On April 1, 2009, WLOY-TV changed its name to GreyComm Studios in celebration of its growing successes over the past year and the great progress it has made since its original foundation as TGN 70. The facility is co-curricular and serves as the cornerstone of a growing Digital Media (major specialization) component in the Communication Department at Loyola.

GreyComm 2010