Campus
The campus of the College of Communication sits in a complex on the north west side of UT's campus, adjacent to The Drag and just north of the Littlefield House. There was no formal definition of the Communication campus until all communication's studies were consolidated in the late 1960s. Construction of a three-building communication complex began in 1968, and the three Departments of Journalism, Radio-Television-Film and Speech Communication moved into new facilities in 1974.
In 2007, the first new construction project for the school in over 30 years was announced after a 15 million dollar donation from the Belo Foundation. The Belo Center for New Media will augment teaching and research space for the college. The two-year construction project officially broke ground in May 2010. Construction costs for the center, projected to be between 100,000 and 125,000 square feet (11,600 m2), are estimated to be $45 million. The Belo Center for New Media had a Grand Opening ceremony in Fall of 2012.
The Texas Student Media building, formerly known as the CMC building, was officially renamed the William Randolph Hearst Building after a significant donation from the Hearst Corporation in 2009. The FCC licensed Student television station locating within the Hearst Building K29HW-D received an 80,000 dollar digital transmitter retrofit to comply with the mandated digital television transition in 2009.
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