Category: News and Events

On Monday, November 1, Culver’s of Sun Prairie held what has become an annual “KIDS-4 Share Night” to raise money for the Media Center’s flagship student media literacy program. The night was a remarkable success, resulting in a Culver’s donation of $711.37 to the Friends of the Sun Prairie Media Center fundraising group. A percentage of all sales at the restaurant from 5 PM to 8 PM on November 1 counted toward the donation total. “Once again the Culver’s Share Night was a great success for us this year,” said Sun Prairie Media Center director Jeff Robbins. “We love working with Alexandria and her entire staff at Culver’s. A huge thanks of course to our very active and involved group of volunteers, KIDS-4 families, board members, and Friends group members…

Sun Prairie Mayor Paul Esser has proclaimed October anti-bullying month in the city of Sun Prairie and in response, the Sun Prairie Media Center is collaborating with the Anti-Bullying Collaborative of Sun Prairie to produce and broadcast a yearlong educational series that address a wide range of issues associated with bullying. The ABC of Sun Prairie believes that bullying knows no boundaries and can be experienced in every phase of life and in every environment. Bullying can be physically, emotionally, and developmentally damaging for individuals and entire communities, including people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, and abilities. The new series will explore a wide range of issues associated with bullying. New episodes in the series will be broadcast every Wednesday at 10:30 AM and Saturdays at 2 PM on KSUN with…

The Sun Prairie Media Center is pleased to commemorate Community Media Day 2021 with a virtual open house and a week-long offer to take part in free training workshops designed to help educate both experienced media makers and novices. Community Media Day is a national recognition of community media centers and their collective goal to bring awareness to the importance of free speech and making media-making tools accessible for all individuals to have their voices heard. Community Media Day is Wednesday, October 20, 2021. The Sun Prairie Media Center will mark the day by hosting a virtual open house that will be live on its KSUN channel as well as on the Sun Prairie Media Center Facebook page. The event is scheduled to go live at 12:30 PM on October…

Are you a basketball fan? Do you watch basketball games on TV or listen to games on the radio and say to yourself, “I have a fresher take than that announcer. I should be calling this game!” Well, now is your chance! The Sun Prairie Media Center has a unique sportscasting opportunity for any basketball fan, for anyone interested in TV sports casting, or for anyone who just wants to hear their voice transmitted to millions (well, at least dozens). This year the SPMC will broadcast over 40 total Sun Prairie Cardinals boys’ and girls’ basketball games on KSUN, sunprairiemediacenter.com, and 103.5 FM The Sun Community Radio. We are in need of three enthusiastic, knowledgeable, professional, and entertaining sportscasters for games. Money is no object, because we don’t pay for…

The Sun Prairie Media Center is pleased to announce that virtually all programming seen on KSUN now features closed captions for the hearing impaired. These closed captions can be activated by selecting “menu” and then “setup” on Charter Spectrum cable boxes or by selecting “menu” and then “settings” on TDS cable boxes. Captions for individual programs or live streams are easily activated by selecting the “CC” button while watching on sunprairiemediacenter.com. Users of Roku or Apple TV devices should follow their device’s instructions for activating closed captioning. The introduction of closed captioning brings an end to the Media Center’s use of “open captioning,” which are subtitles that are always on the screen and can’t be turned on or off by the viewer. The Media Center has been using “open captioning”…

The Sun Prairie Media Centeris excited to announce that once again it will be offering LIVE coverage of all Sun Prairie Cardinals football and boys’ and girls’ basketball games for the 2021-2022 season! Plus we will be offering live coverage of select boys’ soccer games with others to be recorded and broadcast/posted later. We’re extending the opportunity to support this local LIVE coverage with affordable tax-deductible sports sponsorship packages. This is a great way to show Sun Prairie that you support local high school athletics while gaining inexpensive and positive recognition for your business! The games with your underwriting message will be broadcast LIVE across multiple platforms. Home games will be broadcast on KSUN (Charter cable channel 983 and TDS cable channels 13/1013) and 103.5 The Sun Community Radio and…

Here’s your child’s chance to write and produce their own videos by joining the one-of-a-kind KIDS-4 program! KIDS-4 is an after-school media production program run by the Sun Prairie Media Center designed for SPASD students in 4th through 8th grade.   In KIDS-4, students are trained in many areas necessary to create their own television and video productions including cameras, lighting, sound, directing, producing, writing, editing, and animation. While students work with adult staff, their creativity is unfiltered and their work is entirely their own. By creating their own media messages, students become smarter and more critical consumers of others' media messages. Students enrolled in KIDS-4 work after school once a week in ‘crews’ and their work airs on KIDS-4, a 24-hour public access station available on Charter, TDS, Roku…

The Sun Prairie Media Center is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Christine Bright, founder of the Parenting Game, in a new series of programs imaginatively titled “The Parenting Game.” The 30-minute programs air on KSUN (among other times) at 1 PM and 10 PM Wednesdays and on 103.5 FM The Sun Community Radio at 8 AM Fridays. The program is for any person desiring to foster a healthy relationship with a child and aims to provide information, resources, and actionable strategies. Guests on “The Parenting Game” will share stories from their parenting journey and host Bright will help them share their wins and fails, recognizing that perfect parenting does not exist. Says Bright, “I have had the pleasure of working with differently abled children since I was in…