For anyone who wants to learn about television production, Beach TV at the Long Beach campus of California State University (CSU) is an excellent place to start. For nearly 40 years, Beach TV has been training video journalists, producers, content creators, broadcasters, editors, and technicians in all manner of video production. The non-profit, local educational cable TV channel operates 24/7 and boasts of some 600,000 viewers.
Beach TV is operated by the Advanced Media Production Center, the Professional Digital Video Production Department at CSU Long Beach. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Stevie Wonder, Kirk Douglas, and the Dalai Lama are some of the luminaries and Nobel Prize winners who have appeared on the channel. The channel also distributes its content on the web at beachtv.amp.csulb.edu as well as via Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV.
