Performance Radio News has ended the 2012 awards season with four awards in the Associated Press Great Plains Broadcast News Contest. Third Place was awarded in the “Best use of Audio” category for a story depicting the demolition of Vorhees Hall on the former Huron University Campus…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/04/2012sevareid2.mp3|titles=2012sevareid2]The same story won an Award of Merit Eric Sevareid Award for audio last month. Second Place was awarded to Performance Radio in the “Continuing Story” category for coverage of the events following former Huron Police Chief Doug Schmitt’s testimony on an illegal immigration bill before the South Dakota Legislature in 2011…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/04/2012sevareid1.mp3|titles=2012sevareid1]The Doug Schmitt story won a First Place Sevareid Award in the similar “Series” category. Performance Radio won two First Place AP awards. The first is in the Spot News/Breaking News category for coverage of a gas leak near Madison School last year…
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/04/2012sevareid3.mp3|titles=2012sevareid3]The Madison Gas Leak story also won a First Place Sevareid award for Spot News. The other First Place AP award is in the General Reporting category, for a story about Wessington Springs School Superintendent Lance Witte pleading guilty to driving on a revoked license..
[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/04/witte-ironic.mp3|titles=witte ironic]Performance Radio News won a third place AP award in General Reporting last year, and now has five Associated Press awards to go with 15 Eric Sevareid Awards. The Associated Press Great Plains Broadcast News Contest is comprised of AP-member stations in South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska. The winning stories are posted below…
- First Place: General News “Witte Pleads Guilty”[audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/04/2011-awards-Lance-Witte-Plea-Deal-8-03-11.mp3|titles=2011 awards–Lance Witte Plea Deal (8-03-11)]
- First Place: Spot News “Madison School Gas Leak” [audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/04/2011-awards-Gas-Leak-Near-Madison-School-6-23-11.mp3|titles=2011 awards–Gas Leak Near Madison School (6-23-11)]
- Second Place: Continuing Story “The Fall of Doug Schmitt” [audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/04/2011-awards-The-Fall-of-Doug-Schmitt.mp3|titles=2011 awards–The Fall of Doug Schmitt]
- Third Place: Best Use of Audio “Vorhees Hall Falls” [audio:http://prprt.itmwpb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/688/2012/04/2011-awards-Vorhees-Hall-Falls-9-26-11.mp3|titles=2011 awards–Vorhees Hall Falls (9-26-11)]
Performance Radio News won a total of nine awards for stories that aired in the 2011 calender year.