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(November 1, 2012 – St. Louis,
Missouri) The National Educational
Telecommunications Association (NETA) honored twenty
public broadcasters with awards on stage at the
Renaissance Grand hotel. In all, thirty trophies in
content production, promotion, community engagement,
and instructional media were awarded. The
presentation was part of NETA’s annual
conference, held this year in St. Louis, Missouri. |
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In
addition to the NETA awards, the NETA Education Center Board
presented the 2012 Innovation award to Alabama Public
Television for its success with the Exploring Mount
Vernon electronic field trip for middle school
students.
The judges’ panel also honored The Nine Network of Public
Media with a “Best of the Best” award for its
groundbreaking community work with public media at The Nine
Academy. |
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The 2012
NETA Award winners are:
Community Engagement
Blue Ridge PBS:
Women,
War and Peace
(based on a national initiative)
KET-The Kentucky Network: 2011
Election Coverage Using Social Media
(nontraditional)
KMOS/Warrensburg: KMOS Kids Day
(based on a local initiative)
KUED/Salt Lake City: Utah’s Freedom
Riders (based on a national initiative)
Nashville Public Television: Next Door
Neighbors: Storytellers (nontraditional)
Vermont Public Television:
Concert for Flood Relief (community impact)
WGBH/Boston: High School Quiz Show
(based on a local initiative) |
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Content Production
Alabama Public Television:
We Have Signal: Live from Birmingham
(Performance)
Basin PBS/Midland, Texas: Western
Perspective (Information)
Idaho Public Television:
Outdoor Idaho: The People’s Land
(News &
Public Affairs)
KUED/Salt Lake City: Horses of The
West: America’s Love Story
(Science/Nature)
MontanaPBS: Montana Focus: Homeless
Schooling (News & Public Affairs)
Nine Network of Public Media/St. Louis:
Carmina Burana (Performance)
South Dakota Public Broadcasting: The
Stavig Letters (History)
UNC-TV: Oklahoma! (Performance)
WLRN/Miami: Hecho a Mano: Creativity
in Exile (Biography)
WXXI/Rochester: Second Opinion:
Mystery Diagnosis (Information)
Wyoming PBS: Alan K. Simpson Nothing
Else Matters (Biography) |
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Instructional Media
KET/The Kentucky Network:
Self-Paced Professional Development Modules
(Inservice/Staff
Development)
KET/The Kentucky Network: Education
Promotion Packet (Teacher Resource)
Thirteen/WNET: Mission US: Mission 2 –
Flight to Freedom
(Classroom
Content)
Thirteen/WNET: Noah Comprende
(Nontraditional)
Thirteen/WNET: Get the Math
(Instructional Media Product)
Vermont Public Television: “Above The
Fold” Journalism Contest
(Classroom Content) |
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Promotion
KMOS/Warrensburg:
KMOS
Kids Day
(Special Event –
double winner in Engagement)
KET:
Jubilee - "Summertime Blues" (Promotion Campaign)
MontanaPBS: Proof of Performance
(Promotion Campaign)
OETA/Oklahoma City: “Because of OETA”
(Single Video)
Thirteen/WNET: Celebration of Teaching
& Learning Program Book
(Print
Design)
Vegas PBS: Vegas PBS 5K Run & 1 Mile
Walk (Special Event) |
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The NETA
Awards are annual recognition of member-produced excellence
in public broadcasting, a tradition established forty-five
years ago by the pioneering Southern Educational
Communications Association from which NETA was formed. |
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NETA is a professional association organized
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, South Carolina. |
