​(Santa Ana)— Auditions for Santa Ana College’s cable television news programs, Around and About Orange County (AAOC) and Noticiero Latino del Condado de Orange (NLCO), are scheduled for Tuesday, August 26, at 11:00 a.m. News, sports, and entertainment anchors and reporters are being sought. Auditions will be held at the SAC-TV studios located in the Digital Media Center, 1300 S. Bristol., Room 103, Santa Ana.

No previous broadcasting experience is necessary. However, enrollment in Television/Video Communications course 130: Principles of Broadcast News is required. Behind-the-scenes crew members and on-camera talent are needed for the dual English and Spanish productions seen weekly on Time Warner Cable and on Facebook and YouTube. Candidates need to be available Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. from August 26 through December 11 when the shows are produced.

In its 30th year, AAOC is the oldest, continuous running cable show in Orange County.  More than 500 alumni of the program have found full-time employment in television and video. Among the program’s alumni are Tannya Boyd Joaquin, a reporter with Hawaii News Now in Honolulu, and Joe Rodriguez, an ESPN producer who recently returned from Brazil where he produced ABC/ESPN’s coverage of the World Cup.

For more information, contact (714) 241-5778 or visit www.sac.edu.

About the Rancho Santiago Community College District
The mission of the Rancho Santiago Community College District (RSCCD) is to respond to the educational needs of an ever-changing community and to provide programs and services that reflect academic excellence. Santa Ana College and Santiago Canyon College are public community colleges of RSCCD, which serve the residents of Anaheim Hills, East Garden Grove, Irvine, Orange, Santa Ana, Tustin and Villa Park. Both colleges provide education for academic transfer and careers, courses for personal and professional development, customized training for business and industry, and programs to train nurses, firefighters and law enforcement personnel.