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For Immediate Release June 17, 2010
KOMU 8 Honored at Missouri Broadcaster Awards
Best Weathercast, Best Feature and Best Promotion among honors received
COLUMBIA, MO – The Missouri Broadcasters Association (MBA) honored KOMU 8 News with awards in numerous categories at its annual awards banquet on June 5th. The MBA encourages the highest standards in broadcasting by recognizing and sharing examples of excellence and achievement.
KOMU 8 Meteorologist Michelle Bogowith won Best Weathercast for Mid-Missouri and all other medium-sized television stations across the state. This is the second year in a row a member of the LIVE Doppler 8 First Alert Weather Team has received this award. KOMU 8 News Anchor Sarah Hill won Best Feature Reporting overall for Sarah’s Stories, “Honor Flight.” Hill’s Honor Flight series shared the stories of World War II veterans visiting Washington, DC to see their memorial.
“KOMU 8 is committed to bringing our viewers the highest quality news coverage,” said KOMU 8 General Manager Marty Siddall. “It’s great to see the depth and breadth of our coverage be recognized by the MBA.”
“The stories and the weathercast that received awards are examples of the excellence our team puts forth on a daily basis,” said KOMU 8 News Director Stacey Woelfel. “From the professionals to the students, we strive to provide award-winning news coverage every day.”
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KOMU 8 also won top honors for its severe weather coverage promotion and certificates of merit in the Sports and Documentary/Public Affairs categories. KOMU 8 Sports Reporter Eric
Blumberg received a certificate of merit for his story, “50 Mile Runner.” Hill was also honored with a certificate of merit for “Call to Honor,” a thirty-minute Sarah’s Stories special on Central Missouri Honor Flight.
KOMU 8 is a self-funded auxiliary enterprise of the University of Missouri. The station serves a dual purpose within the community. KOMU 8 provides the public with news and entertainment programming while also serving as an educational institution for students of the University of Missouri. The KOMU 8 newsroom is the only one of its kind to also serve as a teaching lab. At KOMU 8, students attending the prestigious Missouri School of Journalism are given the unique opportunity to work alongside professional journalists in a real-life newsroom. This program is set up through the school’s Department of Broadcast Journalism. KOMU 8 also operates Mid-Missouri’s CW station.
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