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  Television Company Belo Corp. (BLC) wins 2012 NABEF Service To America Award
  Belo Corp. is being honored with a National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation Service to America Community Award for its support of Rachel’s Challenge, a non-profit organization promoting kindness and compassion that was established following the Columbine High School tragedy.
  
  Rachel Joy Scott was a student attending Columbine High School in April 1999 and was the first person killed in the tragedy.  Her father, Darrell Scott, began speaking around the country after her death and used writings and drawings from Rachel's diaries to illustrate the need for a kinder, more compassionate nation. 
  
  Belo’s involvement with Rachel’s Challenge began several years ago when KTVB, Belo’s station in Boise, partnered with Rachel’s Challenge by promoting and covering assemblies held in area high schools and junior highs. KTVB’s president and general manager, Doug Armstrong, also served on the Rachel’s Challenge National Advisory Board.

   

  KING 5 Investigation on Welfare Fraud wins National Journalism Award
  George Foster Peabody Award
  “Their Crime, Your Dime” Series Forced Changes in Washington State; Federal Prison Sentences for Criminals Caught On Camera
   
  KING 5 has won a 2011 Peabody Award for the KING 5 Investigators "Their Crime, Your Dime" series, which exposed food stamp and welfare scams. It led to immediate changes at the Department of Social and Health Services and prompted the Washington state legislature to fund a $5 million fraud-prevention squad.
  
  “This series showed the power of television for investigative journalism.  Viewers saw multiple examples of fraud both blatant and undercover.  They watched as some of those people caught on camera ran or tried to deny their actions.  And they watched state officials try to explain rampant fraud,” said Mark Ginther, Executive News Director, KING 5.  “This series resulted in a major overhaul at the state level that will save taxpayers millions and will get the benefits to those who really deserve them.”
  
  
  WFAA-TV Honored with an Eleventh duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for Excellence In Journalism
  The Belo Corp. owned, Dallas-Fort Worth ABC affiliate, was honored with a duPont for an News 8 Investigates series of reports entitled “Bitter Lessons,” presented by senior reporter Byron Harris, producer Mark Smith, photographer/editor Billy Bryant and VP/news, Michael Valentine. Harris, Smith and Valentine have been honored in the past with multiple duPonts, George Foster Peabody and Edward R. Murrow awards.

  The nine-part News 8 Investigates series began in October 2010. It built on an earlier multi-part investigative series that aired in 2005. Harris’ reports revealed serious questions surrounding the multi-billion-dollar for-profit career school industry. It showed how several national career school chains targeted felons and the homeless, luring prospective students with the hope of possible high paying, life-changing careers. Harris, Smith and News 8 Investigates exposed the questionable practices schools used to recruit and train students, and uncovered a lack of state and federal oversight.

  
  Five Belo Television Stations Honored With Seven National Edward R. Murrow Awards
  Five of its broadcast stations were honored with an unprecedented seven 2011 national Edward R. Murrow Awards.  Belo stations were honored with six of the 13 awards given in the television large market category.

  WFAA-TV, Belo’s ABC affiliate in Dallas/Fort Worth, won two Murrows in the large market category for Video Reporting - Hard News and Video Investigative Reporting.  WFAA’s award-winning series, Bitter Lessons, which won for Video Investigative Reporting, was also honored with a George Foster Peabody Award earlier this year.  Also with two wins in the large market category was KING-TV, Belo’s NBC affiliate in Seattle/Tacoma, for Use of Video and Web site.  KMOV-TV, Belo’s CBS station in St. Louis, was honored with a Murrow Award for Video News Documentary, and KGW-TV, Belo’s NBC station in Portland, was awarded a large market prize for Video Feature Reporting.

  
  KING-TV, Honored With Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award
  The Silver Baton will be awarded to KING for its investigative series, Waste on the Water, which uncovered millions of wasted and misused tax dollars in the Washington state ferry system. The reports were the product of a four-month investigation by the KING investigative team, including reporter Susannah Frame, producer Kellie Cheadle, photographers Steve Douglas and Doug Burgess and news director Mark Ginther.
   

  WFAA-TV Wins 2010 Peabody
  WFAA was one of only three commercial television stations recognized this year with a George Foster Peabody Award. This marks the seventh time WFAA has been honored with a Peabody Award and the ninth consecutive year a Belo station has been selected to receive this prestigious honor. Since 2000, Belo stations have won 12 Peabody Awards, more than any other commercial station group.