Many of the broadcasting faculty members have extensive industry experience at media organizations such as ABC News, WBNS-TV (CBS) in Columbus, Ohio, KMTV, Omaha, Nebraska and Nebraska Educational Television. The faculty continues to be connected to the industry, and its members are actively involved in professional media organizations. Students, likewise, are encouraged to further their professional goals through participation in student organizations such as the Alpha Epsilon Rho national broadcasting society, the Society of Professional Journalists, Northwest Broadcast News Association, Radio, Television News Directors Association, the Radio Television Digital News Association and the American Copy Editors Association.
KRNU and KRNU2 are professionally managed radio stations and are an integral part of the instructional program. With studios in Andersen Hall, KRNU operates year-round and serves an audience of potentially 250,000 persons in the Lincoln area, plus a global audience via the Internet. KRNU2 operates on the Internet only. Student-produced programs aired on these stations have won many awards in competition with other student groups as well as with commercial stations. Students are successful in the Broadcast Education Association national student competition, Society of Professional Journalists and the Northwest Broadcast News Association
Students have also had success in the national Hearst competition, including the national winner in the 2013 feature category in television news, second place television news overall in 2012, third place radio news overall and the broadcast television news national winner in 2006. In addition, several students have placed in the top five in both radio and television.