About Us

The fabric of television is the stuff of dreams, fantasy, visions and imagination. Consequently, it inspires visions and dreams, and stirs the collective imagination of its viewers – especially young people; a chain reaction that (we believe) needs to be managed somehow. What greater mark for any industry than to encourage and nurture new blood and emerging talent?

The ‘Channel M Project’ has been running at Salford University since autumn 1998, with literally hundreds of graduates having cut their teeth in media by broadcasting real programmes to a real audience.

Reel North is just one of four programmes produced by the University for broadcast on Channel M. Hitting Home offers award-winning documentaries from the university's MA Television Features course; Manchester Exchange is a lively studio debate programme which deals with serious issues affecting Greater Manchester, and our arts & entertainment magazine programme, Zeitgeist, features new music, art, photography, fashion, dance, sculpture, poetry and a variety of cultural reports from around the region.

Together, these programmes act as an invaluable training space within which emerging television programme-makers (Salford students) can engage in a variety of broadcast disciplines - including research, camera, sound, vision mixing & engineering, floor managing, studio lighting, presenting, producing and directing. The fact that their work may be seen by millions of television viewers across northern Europe is not lost on our students. As a result, Salford media graduates are often a cut above the rest.