Located in the Butte College Library, it features a normal classroom for approximately 40 students, combined with a full feature broadcast studio. Two remote controlled Parker Vision video cameras are located on the rear wall behind the student seating. These are used to silently follow the speaker as they move about the students, and are unobtrusive to the normal classroom experience. Audio from the classroom is picked up by eight ceiling-mounted AKG C562CM button microphones, controlled by a Shure SCM810 automatic microphone mixer. A specially equipped instructor's station has been set up at the front of the room.
Sound comes through four ceiling-mounted speakers.
All audio and video that can be displayed or heard in the classroom can also be simultaneously sent out via television or videoconference. There is a ceiling-mounted InFocus RGB video projector that can display the Elmo, VCR, or the local computer screen in 800x600 mode. One important design aspect of this studio is the ability to control much of the room's equipment from a remote room. A student technician is deployed in the television master control room to operate the cameras and to watch audio and video levels for recording or live broadcast. If the room is not used for recording but simply as a lecture facility, technician intervention is not required.