Thursday Media Tours

Participants should meet at the media tour desk at the time listed. End times are the approximate time participants will return to the convention hotel. Transportation will be provided and is included in the price. Lunch is not. An Off-site Permission Form is required for each student attending a media tour. Tours are $25 per person.


Berit Publishing Inc. Cerritos
12:30-3 p.m. Limit 15.
Most of their business comes from ethnic minority papers ranging from Korean, Vietnamese and Chinese dailies and weeklies. They are currently printing the CSU Fullerton Daily Titan paper. Visitors will see how a printing plant operates and meet editors of these publications.

Bowers Museum
9:10 a.m.-12:20 p.m. Limit 30.
Founded in 1936 by the City of Santa Ana through a bequest from Charles and Ada Bowers, the Bowers Museum is one of Orange County’s largest museums. It reopened in 1992 as a new cultural center and expanded children’s programming in 1994. The Bowers offers exhibitions, lectures, art classes, travel programs, children’s art education programs and other special community programs.

Huntington Beach International Surf Museum
3-6 p.m. Limit 25.
Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum was founded several decades ago by a woman who’s never surfed, Natalie Kotsch. She recognized an incredible beach vibe and a welcoming spirit that made her feel happy in Huntington Beach. Many of the great surfboards and local history have been preserved. Come experience what many call the surf capital of California and see the history of HB. 

KDOC-TV
8:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m. Limit 30.
KDOC-TV signed on the air in October 1982 and has a rich history among Southern California broadcast stations. Today, KDOC Los Angeles, based in the heart of Orange County, broadcasts to the entire Los Angeles television market of 5.6 million homes, drawing nearly 1 million viewers per week. KDOC Los Angeles is dedicated to providing Southern California viewers with a variety of great entertainment. 

CANCELED: KOCE
9:10- a.m.-1:30 p.m. Limit 20.
Tour the television studios of KOCE, the PBS studios serving Los Angeles and Orange counties. You will get a chance to meet some of the staff and get a behind-the-scenes look at a news studio of the public television station. 

KUCI
11 a.m.-3 p.m. Limit 30.
KUCI is a nonprofit radio station, run by student and community volunteers since 1968. All KUCI programs are created locally rather than depending on satellite feeds. Its signal reaches the communities of Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Orange and Tustin, and it was one of the very first radio stations to broadcast on the internet.

Ocean Institute
1-5 p.m. Limit 40.
The Advanced Living Systems Lab/Cruise includes a fish dissection, water chemistry, invertebrate classification, and Jelly biology. Aboard the R/V Sea Explorer, students will examine benthic and pelagic habitats by deploying oceanographic sampling equipment to collect a variety of marine specimens.

Orange County Museum of Art
10 a.m.-1 p.m. Limit 30.
The Orange County Museum of Art enriches the lives of a diverse and changing community through modern and contemporary art. It has a focus on modern and contemporary art. It has hosted many exhibits and offers off-site programs to experience art all over Southern California.  

Richard Nixon Library
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Limit 40.
The presidential museum features 22 unique spaces that incorporate multimedia and interactive technologies. Visitors begin their journey in the new Malek Theater and enjoy a 13-minute orientation film before entering the permanent galleries in the “Wave of Change” gallery, which covers a period of great upheaval throughout the 1960s and during the months leading up to the November 1968 presidential election. Travel through President Nixon’s presidency and resignation and return to his origins in the “Back to the Beginning” gallery.