About Us
ASU-TV is your cable and web-based media outlet serving as both a learning lab for students and a communication and entertainment platform for the entire ASU community. Our programing is available on Optimum Channel 18, and on campus on Channel 4. Our content is also available on-demand through YouTube and Facebook. If you would like to get involved email our factually advisor Dustin Sullivan (dsullivan@astate.edu), send us a message @asutvjonesboro on Instagram or you can email station manager Tristan Harlen (tristan.harlen@smail.astate.edu)
Meet our staff
Station Manager
Tristan Harlen
Tristan is a Creative Media Production major with an emphasis in Sports Media. He is also one of the hosts of the longest-running, weekly sports show on ASU-TV “Red Wolf Roundtable.” He also has experience in working with A-State Athletics and their ESPN Production crew, where he works live productions, as well as helping produce feature content and provide play by play commentary. Tristan’s future ambitions are to be a future Sportscaster after graduation
Faculty Advisor
Dustin Sullivan
Mr. Sullivan was appointed as the ASU-TV Faculty Advisor in August of 2022. He is also currently an instructor of Sports Media and Creative Media Production for the School of Media and Journalism at Arkansas State University. Mr. Sullivan has many years of experience in television production, including working for ESPN as a Content Video Editor from 2011-2013 and working as the Director of Digital Media for A-State Athletics from 2013-2020. Mr. Sullivan earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Arkansas State University. He and his wife, Lauren, reside in Jonesboro along with their three children Kyleigh, Amelia, and Oliver.
Sports Producer
Cooper Melder
Cooper Melder is a senior and his major is Creative Media Production with an emphasis in sports. He is responsible for all sporting content on ASU-TV and is second co-host of Red Wolf Roundtable shown on ASU-TV. He hopes to be doing sports commentary or on-field camera production with a sports team when he graduates.
High school students
If you’re in high school and have an interest in media, then click here to learn more about the School of Media and Journalism.
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Our students get the chance at many opportunities on and off campus, both academically and professionally, in areas like multimedia journalism, creative media production and sports production.
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Our sports production students get opportunities to work side by side with ESPN at athletic events and much more.
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Our multimedia journalism students are eligible for many internships at networks across the country and at network affiliate stations across the United States.
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If you want to be a part of a career that will never bore you, be a part of the media. It’s a career that is ever changing and no two days are the same.