LU students to showcase industry skills as part of ESPN+ broadcast team for CUSA basketball tourneys
March 3, 2025 : By Ryan Klinker - Office of Communications & Public Engagement
Students working for Liberty Broadcast Experience (LBX, Liberty’s broadcast communications department) will have the opportunity to gain real-world experience in game coverage outside of Liberty Arena later this month as they travel to Huntsville, Ala., to run cameras, sound, and graphics as the TV packager for ESPN+ coverage of the 2025 CUSA Basketball Championships.
The department’s Mobile Unit Truck will travel to Propst Arena and work a dozen games spread out through four days (March 11-14), covering the men’s and women’s first round games and quarterfinals and the women’s semifinal games. This is the second consecutive year LBX has been hired for the tournaments’ TV coverage.
“It’s an honor and testament to the reputation of our students and staff to be selected once again to broadcast the 2025 CUSA Basketball Championships,” said Bobby Keating, executive producer of Broadcast Communications. “Giving students the opportunity to work in a real world environment off campus is yet another way we are Training Champions For Christ.”
With two games left for the Flames Basketball and the Lady Flames, both programs are heading toward the conference tournament projected to carry high seeds.
LBX is scheduled to broadcast many conference championships this semester: CUSA Basketball Championships, CUSA Indoor Track & Field Championships, CUSA Men’s & Women’s Tennis Championships, CUSA Baseball Championships, and the ASUN Women’s Lacrosse Tournament.
This year, LBX is producing 243 sports broadcasts, which creates over 3,000 student crew opportunities. These shows air on platforms such as ESPN+, giving students quality material for their demo reels prior to graduation. Keating said the average amount of sports broadcasts worked per active student this year has been 25, with 103 being the most games worked by a single student. The average student makeup on a sports broadcast this year has been 55%, complemented by professional staff members and industry freelancers.
Students that work with LBX are either Christian/Community Service (CSER) volunteers or student-workers.
In addition to sports, LBX produces on-campus shows like Convocation, Campus Community, Coffeehouse, Commencement, Christmas on the Boulevard, Block Party, After Party, The School of Music’s Night of Worship, and well over 1,000 more annually. Additionally, they have teams that produce a weekly sports television show called “Flames Central,” create video content for online learning environments, operate a Christian radio network called “The Journey,” and create content for Athletics social media.
