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PUBLIC TELEVISION’S BEST WORK
APPLAUDED AT NETA 2009
Creativity and
inspiration outshine industry gloom.
(January 15, 2009 – Tampa, FL) The
National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA)
honored
23 public broadcasters with awards
Thursday on stage at Tampa Hyatt Regency. In all,
thirty-nine
trophies in the areas of program production, promotion, outreach,
and instructional media,
were awarded. The celebratory presentation
was part of NETA’s annual conference,
held this year
in Tampa, Florida.
The judges
selected two endeavors as 2008’s “Best of the Best”:
- OETA / Oklahoma City: Gallery: The People’s Art
(program production)
- WETA / Arlington: The War (outreach)
The 2008 NETA
Awards winners are:
INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA
KERA /Dallas: Little Bites, Big Steps (inservice/large
market)
Wisconsin ECB /
Madison: Into the Book (instructional media product / large
market)
Western Reserve Public Media / Alliance-Kent: Big or Small:
Measure It All (instructional media product / small market)
Thirteen/WNET / New
York: What’s Up In Finance? (ITV program / large market)
WLVT / Bethlehem:
Pennsylvania Career Gates (ITV series / small market)
Wisconsin ECB / Madison: Into the Book (teacher resource /
large market)
PROMOTION
Nashville Public
Television: Help Us Help Others (corporate institutional /
small market)
NET / Lincoln: Inspire Nebraska (corporate institutional /
large market)
WMHT / Troy:
New York Now (local campaign / small market)
AETN / Conway: In Their Words (local campaign / large
market)
NET / Lincoln:
Crane Song (national promotion / large market)
OETA / Oklahoma
City: Odyssey Program Guide (print design / large market)
WLVT / Bethlehem: PBS39 Annual Report (print design / small
market)
KCPT / Kansas City: Eat Small (single video / large market)
Nashville Public
Television: Joy of Painting (single video / small market)
KSPS / Spokane:
Antiques Roadshow Spokane (special event / small market)
Wisconsin Public
Television / Madison: Quilt Expo (special event / large
market)
WETA / Arlington:
The War (Website / large market)
OUTREACH
UEN / Salt Lake City: Water Wise Utah (community impact
/ large market)
AETN / Conway: In Their Words (national campaign / large
market)
WSRE / Pensacola: Gulf Coast War Memories (national campaign
/ small market)
KCPT / Kansas
City: Generation XL (local campaign / large market)
KUAC / Fairbanks: International Polar Year Segments (local
campaign / small market)
PROGRAM
PRODUCTION
MontanaPBS / Bozeman: 11th & Grant with Eric Funk
(performance/small market)
OETA / Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Centennial Spectacular
(performance / large market)
Idaho Public Television / Boise: Barbara Morgan: No Limits
(biography / large market)
KET / Lexington:
Lincoln: I, Too, Am A Kentuckian (biography / large market)
(tie)
AETN / Conway:
Delta Dreams (news and public affairs / large market)
WMHT / Troy: New
York Now (news and public affairs / small market)
KSPS / Spokane: Secret Mission: Hanford (historical
documentary / small market)
WLRN / Miami: Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami (historical
documentary / large market)
OETA / Oklahoma:
Gallery: The People’s Art (information / large market)
WCTE / Cookeville:
Crank: Darkness on the Edge of Town (information / small
market)
Nashville Public
Television: Beautiful Tennessee: Our Scenic Waterways
(science and nature / small market)
NET / Lincoln: The Price of Water (science and nature /
large market)
Basin PBS /
Midland: Quiz Show (series / small market)
Thirteen/WNET / New York: Exposé: America’s Investigative
Reports (series / large market)
The NETA Awards are annual recognition
of member-produced excellence in public broadcasting,
a tradition
established more than forty years ago by the pioneering Southern
Educational
Communications Association.
NETA is a professional association
founded in 1997 to serve public television licensees
and affiliated
educational organizations. The organization has members in 43
states, the District
of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands. NETA is
headquartered in Columbia, SC.
See
www.netaonline.org for additional information on the
organization and its services.
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