The labs available to students within the Mass Communications department and Center for New Media provide opportunities for hands-on and practical experience before the student graduates from the university.

	KTSC-FM  KTSC-FM is a 10,000 watt, student-run, non-commercial college radio station which has been serving the Southern Colorado region since 1970. Because it is an educational facility, the station's format fluctuates with ideas and objectives brought in by new students. The complete radio facilities include a master control room, production room and offices.
Rev 89.5 production facilities

KTSC-TV  Rocky Mountain Public Broadcasting System affiliate, KTSC-TV, provides laboratory training and on-campus jobs for television students. Advanced television production student have the opportunity to serve on the production staff, including producing and directing, for locally produced daily and weekly programs.  Location videography is accomplished using Ikegami and Sony cameras utilizing DVCam and DVCPro50 videotape formats. Digital nonlinear editing facilities include 5 Avid systems with more than 3 TB of storage.

Today Today, the university's newspaper, is published during the regular academic year and functions as a laboratory tool for the news editorial sequence of the mass communications department. Editorial and advertising management positions are awarded each semester to qualified students. The newspaper is funded through advertising revenue.