Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 9:34 am
The top awards were announced at the ceremony last night.
Overall Excellence: (Radio)
Division One: KPAM
Division Two: KQEN
Best Newscast: (Radio)
Division One: KPAM
Division Two: KQEN
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Overall Excellence: (TV)
Division One: KGW
Division Two: KVAL
Best Newscast: (TV)
Division One: KATU
Division Two: KVAL
Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 10:08 am
A nice evening.......I especially appreciated the KGX emcee's comments at the end about how many are not "working" in our industry anymore.''
Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 4:48 pm
Do radio stations have to send in an entry fee to be considered for an award or is this industry people acknowledging industry people?
Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 5:14 pm
Chris- There is an entry fee per award...
Monday, April 27, 2009 - 8:25 am
AP awards usually do a good job of identifying the "best" in the market. They are judged by AP members in another market to limit conflicts of interest. But as far as radio is concerned, like all awards of this type, if a station is "doing it with smoke and mirrors" its sometimes hard for those judging to really know how good a station is. I was on a judging panel one year and the station we gave a best newscast award to turned out to not be the best. They were using a lot of audio from a TV partner, as well as pulling reporter Q & A from TV. Because they were not crediting it as such we assumed they had a huge staff and were covering everything. Other stations in the market challenged our decision and the offending station was disqualified. What you hear isn't always what it seems.
Monday, April 27, 2009 - 8:33 am
Thanks Bill that was sort of what I was getting at.
Monday, April 27, 2009 - 1:03 pm
so - what are you really saying here?
