Kath­leen Bazkur, Pro­gram Coordinator

Kath­leen has held many posi­tions in Cana­dian con­ven­tional, spe­cialty, pay and dig­i­tal tele­vi­sion, in both brand mar­ket­ing and pro­gram­ming areas.  Born and raised in Toronto, Kath­leen was edu­cated at Ryer­son Uni­ver­sity.  She began her career at CFTO-TV, the flag­ship sta­tion of CTV, was a found­ing mem­ber of YTV and was in senior man­age­ment posi­tions at Astral Net­works and Alliance Atlantis Broad­cast­ing.  She has won sev­eral awards for her work in on-air mar­ket­ing cam­paigns and has been a speaker at inter­na­tional con­fer­ences.  In addi­tion, she has been a judge of inter­na­tional tele­vi­sion mar­ket­ing and design awards.  In 1999, she moved to Prince Edward County and loves men­tor­ing tomorrow’s media movers-and-shakers.

Dave Collins, Pro­fes­sor

For 20 years Dave has been design­ing Graph­ics and Motion Graph­ics for tele­vi­sion, print, and on-line con­tent.  He’s have been lucky enough to be doing some­thing he loves to do.  Dave says “the best thing about my job is the vari­ety, it helps to keep things fresh. Each new chal­lenges allows me to con­tinue learn­ing”.  HeI started work­ing in tele­vi­sion for The Score Tele­vi­sion Net­work and stayed with them until May of ‘08. For 7 years as The Score’s Net­work Art Direc­tor he was respon­si­ble for the brand­ing and over­all look of the net­work. Dave has also designed pack­ages that air or have aired on Prime, Global, The Com­edy Net­work, CBC, Fox Sports World Canada, W Net­work, TV Trop­o­lis, Game TV, and Sport­snet. Since leav­ing The Score he has been work­ing as a free­lance artist for clients all over the world. The major­ity of his work is still pro­duced for tele­vi­sion, but the trend towards more online con­tent is grow­ing.  Dave teaches in the Tele­vi­sion­Pro­gram as well as in the Ani­ma­tion, and Media Expe­ri­ence Pro­grams.  Dave demon­strates every day that he truly enjoys pass­ing on his expe­ri­ence and knowl­edge to his students.

Ben Forgie, Pro­fes­sor

Ben grad­u­ated from the Tele­vi­sion Broad­cast­ing Pro­gram at Loy­al­ist Col­lege in 1999.  Fol­low­ing an intern­ship with Sport­snet in Toronto, he returned to Loy­al­ist and grad­u­ated from the Broad­cast Jour­nal­ism Pro­gram in 2000.  Ben gained expe­ri­ence as a jour­nal­ist work­ing as a radio anchor/ reporter with Quinte Broad­cast­ing and then returned to Tele­vi­sion serv­ing as a Pro­ducer with TVCogeco.  This posi­tion gave Ben exten­sive expe­ri­ence pro­duc­ing stu­dio and mobile tele­vi­sion pro­duc­tions includ­ing OHL Hockey and other live sport­ing events.  He also pro­duced a weekly enter­tain­ment pro­gram that fea­tured a wide array of inter­na­tion­ally renowned guests.  Fol­low­ing this, Ben returned to school and grad­u­ated from The Fac­ulty of Edu­ca­tion at Queen’s Uni­ver­sity in 2007.  That Fall he was for­tu­nate to come full cir­cle and join the fac­ulty team in the Tele­vi­sion and New Media Pro­duc­tion Pro­gram at Loyalist.

Claude Gariepy, Pro­fes­sor

Claude has truly seen this indus­try evolve, from Shoot­ing Film, to Video, to Solid State Mem­ory cards.  He is our Cam­era / field light­ing spe­cial­ist. He’s had 40 years expe­ri­ence as a free­lance DOP (Direc­tor of Pho­tog­ra­phy), direc­tor, and pro­ducer. Claude has been involved in Doc­u­men­tary and event cov­er­age world­wide for all major net­works: CBC, CTV, TSN, Sports Net, NBC, CBS, NBC, ESPN and more. He has an impres­sive back­ground in series work, includ­ing: The Red Green Show (CBC), Body Break (PSA and series on TLC), Mak­ing the Cut (CBC) and Par­adise Falls (Show­case). Claude has been involved in cov­er­ing major events all over the globe includ­ing the Cal­gary and Atlanta Olympics (CBC/CBS) and the X-Games (ESPN).  His real pas­sion is motor­sports and he’s been lucky enough to have been involved in the Cana­dian Rally Cham­pi­onship (TSN/RDS), Rally Amer­ica (ESPN), Indy Car Cham­pi­onship (TSN/RDS), F1 (TSN/RDS/FOCA), NHL (NHL Pro­duc­tions) and many more. His many Cor­po­rate clients include: Toyota/Lexus, Sub­aru, Gen­eral Motors, TD Bank, Sco­tia Bank, IBM, Petro Canada, Canada Rev­enue Agency and many more. Claude is a proud Found­ing mem­ber of CICA (Cana­dian Inde­pen­dent Cam­era Asso­ci­a­tion). He is fully bilin­gual in French and English.

Cathy God­dard, Professor

Cathy is a grad­u­ate of the Loy­al­ist TVNM pro­gram.  Before teach­ing at Loy­al­ist, she had a career in Tele­vi­sion Series Pro­duc­tion, News, Doc­u­men­tary, but mostly Sports as a cam­er­ap­er­son, graph­ics oper­a­tor, audio oper­a­tor, edi­tor and  direc­tor.  She has the dis­tinc­tion of being the first female news camera-person at CTV Atlantic in the early 80’s.  Her career high­lights include edit­ing at 4 Olympic Games — Cal­gary ’88, Barcelona ’92, Lille­ham­mer ’94 and Nagano ’98, cam­era oper­a­tor and edi­tor at many world cup ski races and world class sport­ing events includ­ing the 1987 World Hockey Cham­pi­onships in Vienna Aus­tria.   Part of her gig in Toronto with TV 2 Go, was to drive and oper­ate a KU band satel­lite uplink truck that she piloted across Canada and through­out the USA, work­ing on such events as Blues Jays Spring Train­ing camp in Dunedin Florida and the 1988 Cal­gary Olympic Torch Relay.  Cathy is a self pro­claimed “foodie” and she com­bines her love of video con­tent cre­ation and cook­ing by men­tor­ing the 2nd year TV stu­dents at Loy­al­ist in the pro­duc­tion of a pro­fes­sional 1/2 hour cook­ing show that goes to air on local cable and CBC affil­i­ate stations.

Michelle Grimes, Pro­fes­sor

Michelle has worked as a broad­caster and pro­duc­tion exec­u­tive for a vari­ety of Cana­dian media com­pa­nies and orga­ni­za­tions includ­ing Out­door Life Net­work, National Geo­graphic Chan­nel, Slice (for­merly Life Net­work), BBC Canada, CityTV and Star!.  She’s worked with pro­duc­tion com­pa­nies to help make shows includ­ing Mantracker, Ed’s Up, Sur­vivor­man, and a num­ber of doc­u­men­taries and children’s shows. A for­mer jour­nal­ist and edi­tor, she has writ­ten for the Cana­dian Press/Broadcast News, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, among oth­ers, and was a free­lance news reporter for var­i­ous radio sta­tions in the Mar­itimes. Michelle holds degrees in both Jour­nal­ism and Radio and Tele­vi­sion Arts from Ryer­son Uni­ver­sity. In addi­tion to teach­ing in TVNM, Michelle is Coor­di­na­tor of the Media Expe­ri­ence pro­gram. Favorite TV shows include Lost, Game of Thrones, 30 Rock, Glee, and House.