The Southeastern Channel officially hit the airwaves July 9, 2002 and within five years has established itself as one of the premier university television channels nationwide.

With high-quality production and programming as its staple, the Southeastern Channel has already won over 70 national and international awards in the past four years, including four Emmy Awards along with multiple Telly, Aurora, Axiem, Videographer, Communicator, College Broadcasters, and WorldFest International Film and Video Festival Gold Remi awards. The Southeastern Channel is the first university channel in state history to have won an Emmy.

Led by an international award-winning professional staff, some with decades of experience at the national television network level, the Southeastern Channel produces over 600 hours of fresh original programming each year. The channel airs over 100 hours of original programming each week, roughly 90 percent of its 24/7 schedule. Of the 1,000-plus hours of telecourses airing each year, 95 percent have been originally produced using Southeastern faculty. Each lecture for these telecourses has been archived on the Southeastern Channel's website for "Video on Demand" accessibility. A "Live Webcast" broadcasts 24/7 from the Southeastern Channel website as well.

In the short history of the Southeastern Channel, the channel has provided a valuable training ground for university television students who have worked and studied over 17,000 hours at the state-of-the-art studio production facility. Here students have gained great preparation for the television marketplace. Southeastern Channel products Randi Rousseau (Reporter, WDSU-TV6, New Orleans), Krystal Boothe (Reporter, WWL-TV4, New Orleans), and Daniel Brown (Assignment Editor, WAFB-TV9, Baton Rouge) have landed jobs in Top 40 markets right after graduation.