Carolina Week and Carolina Connection are student newscasts produced by students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Students are responsible for all of the pieces aired as well as the production of the show. Supervised by a management team of professors and graduate students with prior professional broadcast experience, students shoot, write and edit their own stories. The program allows students to get lots of hands-on experience in the broadcast journalism field. Carolina Week and Carolina Connection have won numerous state, regional, and national awards, which are listed on the Awards page of this Web site.

Reporters cover University, community and state news for two TV newscasts and one radio newscast per week. Each half hour TV newscast included news, weather and sports segments. Students commit approximately 500 work hours to the shows each week. These hours go into covering stories, editing, running studio and control room equipment and many other tasks.

Carolina Week's first show aired February 2000 in the newly renovated Carroll Hall on UNC-Chapel Hill's campus. The set was primitive, but the passion strong. Carolina Week has since grown in sophistication. On Oct. 1, 2003, the show went live. On Dec. 3, 2003, Carolina Week carried out its first live remote.

Carolina Connection first aired Sept. 14, 2004, and began live broadcast Sept. 2, 2006, complete with weather and traffic reports. Students working on both platforms continually push the envelope, working to bring our viewers and listeners stories of interest to them.