Three Belo Stations Win 2008 Alred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards
Belo Corp. announced today that three of its television stations were honored with the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton Award for excellence in broadcast journalism at a ceremony held last evening at Columbia University. WFAA-TV in Dallas/Fort Worth, KHOU-TV in Houston and KMOV-TV in St. Louis were three of only 13 winners chosen from a pool of 510 radio and television news entries. The three Belo stations are among only five United States local television stations honored this year. View Full Story KMOV-TV Channel 4 named Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University 2008 News Award Winner
KMOV-TV has been honored this year with the Alfred I. duPont Silver Baton awarded by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism for "Left Behind: The Failure of East St. Louis Schools," a series of reports that examined the chronic failure of schools in East St. Louis, Ill., to educate children with special needs. View Full Story KHOU-TV named Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University 2008 News Award Winner
KHOU-TV/DT 11 News is one of only five U.S. local television stations honored this year with the Silver Baton awarded by Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. "Rules of the Game," an investigative report by the 11 News Defenders exposed an unusual aspect of Texas law that allows prosecutors to withhold evidence from the defense before trial. View Full Story WVEC-TV13 Honored with Five Emmy Awards
WVEC-TV13 was recognized with five Emmy Awards for News, Creative Services and Production at the 49th Emmy Awards, held Saturday, June 16, in Washington DC. View Full Story Belo Television Stations Win Four National Murrow Awards
Belo television stations have won four national Edward R. Murrow Awards for 2007, more than all other station groups nationwide in the total number of awards received. The awards recognized KING-TV in Seattle/Tacoma for its Web site KING5.com, WCNC-TV in Charlotte for Sports Reporting, KVUE-TV in Austin for Overall Excellence and KTVB in Boise for Sports Reporting. The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) presents the Murrow Awards annually to honor outstanding achievements in electronic journalism and recognize news organizations that set the standard in the broadcast news profession. View Full Story KMOV-TV Wins a Peabody Award
Belo announced that KMOV-TV, its CBS affiliate in St. Louis, has been awarded a 2006 George Foster Peabody Award. KMOV was one of only four local television stations in the nation to receive this prestigious honor. KMOV was recognized for its "Left Behind: The Failure of East St. Louis Schools," a series of 21 reports over seven months that found the school system had violated state and federal special-education requirements and uncovered widespread political and nepotistic hiring by the school board. View Full Story WWL-TV Wins 2007 duPont-Columbia Award for Its Hurricane Katrina Coverage
WWL-TV, Belo's CBS affiliate in New Orleans, received the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award for excellence in broadcast journalism. WWL is one of only five local commercial television stations in the nation to win this award. The 150 employees of WWL provided 14 days of continuous coverage of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, beginning two days before the storm made landfall. Dedicated WWL team members provided viewers with vital news and information when the need was greatest. As one viewer said, "When every light was out, WWL was there." Due to careful and extensive pre-planning, WWL was the only station to remain on the air during the height of the storm and in the days afterwards. Continuous coverage originated from WWL studios in the French Quarter as well as from an alternate broadcast facility on the Louisiana State University campus and the WWL transmitter facility and studios of Louisiana Public Broadcasting in Baton Rouge. View Full Story KVUE NEWS Wins National Murrow Award
The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) has awarded KVUE-TV with the national Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in electronic journalism. KVUE's Todd Rogenthien received the award in the category of Best Videography for the story, "Le Parkour," reported by anchor Christine Haas. The story focuses on an innovative new exercise trend that involves using Austin's Texas landmarks as an obstacle course. View Full Story Channel 11 Wins Two National Edward R. Murrow Awards
KHOU-TV Channel 11 has won two national Edward R. Murrow Awards from The Radio-Television News Directors Association. Channel 11 won the 2006 Murrow Awards in the categories of Investigative Reporting and Hard News Feature and is the only Houston television station to win the prestigious national awards. The Edward R. Murrow Awards honor excellence in electronic journalism. View Full Story KING 5 Honored with National Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence
KING 5 has been awarded the national 2006 Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in large markets by the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA). This top national award is given to the station that consistently demonstrates depth and scope in its news coverage. View Full Story WWL-TV Wins 2005 Peabody Award for its Advance Planning and Extraordinary Coverage of Hurricane Katrina
WWL-TV, Belo Corp.'s CBS affiliate in New Orleans, has been awarded the 2005 George Foster Peabody Award. The Peabody award recognized the station's careful pre-planning that enabled WWL-TV to remain on the air throughout Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, the only local station that provided comprehensive coverage for 14 days before, during and after the disaster. View Full Story KTVB, Idaho's NewsChannel 7 Awarded National Murrow Award
The Radio-Television News Directors Association Announced the Edward R. Murrow Award Winners of the national 2005 Edward R. Murrow Awards. Fifty-four news organizations won 72 awards out of an initial pool of 3,390 entries from 546 news organizations. And KTVB, Idaho's NewsChannel 7 is one of them! View Full Story WFAA-TV Honored with Fourth Prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for "State of Denial" Investigation
The University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication announced today that WFAA has been honored with a 2004 George Foster Peabody Award for "State of Denial," a series of more than 20 news stories by the station's News 8 Investigates team on abuses and other serious issues involving Texas workers' compensation system. This marks the station's fourth Peabody Award, and second within the past three years. View Full Story Two Belo Television Stations are the Only Local Stations Nationwide to Win 2005 duPont-Columbia Awards
WFAA-TV (ABC) in Dallas/Fort Worth and WCNC-TV (NBC) in Charlotte, both owned by Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC), will be the only two local commercial television stations in the nation to receive a prestigious Silver Baton Award for broadcast journalism when the 2005 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards are presented in a ceremony at Columbia University today. View Full Story WCNC-TV Wins Prestigious 2005 duPont for Investigative Story
The Investigators, WCNC-TV's 6 News investigative unit, continues to be recognized for excellence. The team has been awarded the 2005 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for broadcast journalism. View Full Story WFAA-TV and its 'News 8 Investigates' Team Wins Second duPont Award in Three Years
WFAA-TV has been awarded the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton -- the station's eighth such honor -- for an eight-month investigation of how insurance companies denied medical claims for work-related injuries. View Full Story WFAA-TV Honored with National Edward R. Murrow Award for Iraq War Documentary "War Stories"
For the sixth time in the past five years WFAA-TV has been recognized with a prestigious national Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. View Full Story WCNC-TV/6 News Awarded the Peabody
The Investigators', WCNC-TVs 6 News investigative unit's, recent reports on questionable dental practices entitled Medicaid Dental Investigation continue to be recognized for excellence. The team has been awarded The Peabody, the oldest honor in electronic journalism. Stuart Watson was the lead investigative reporter for the series of reports. This is the third Peabody Watson has won, the first for WCNC-TV. View Full Story Two Belo Stations Win 2003 Peabody Awards
Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC) said today that two of its stations, KHOU-TV in Houston and WCNC-TV in Charlotte, have been awarded 2003 George Foster Peabody Awards, bringing to five the number of Peabody Awards earned by Belo television stations and executives since 2000. View Full Story KHOU-TV Wins duPont-Columbia Award
KHOU-TV Channel 11 has been awarded the prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for a series of reports which exposed errors at the Houston Police Department Crime Lab. View Full Story WHAS11 Wins Prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award
WHAS11 News won the regional Edward R. Murrow Award for outstanding achievement in electronic journalism in the "Continuing Coverage" category for coverage of the Paul Patton scandal, it was announced last week by the Radio-Television News Directors Association. View Full Story WFAA-TV Wins 2003 duPont-Columbia Award, the 16th Silver Baton for Belo's Television Group
Belo Corp. said that WFAA-TV, the Company's ABC affiliate in Dallas/Fort Worth, has been awarded a 2003 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism. The award marks the 11th Silver Baton for Belo's Television Group since 1985 and its 16th overall. View Full Story KHOU-TV and Former Broadcast Division Executive Receive Peabody Awards
Belo's KHOU-TV, its CBS affiliate in Houston, Texas, and H. Martin (Marty) Haag, Jr., the Broadcast Division's former senior vice president/news, were presented George Foster Peabody Awards at a luncheon Monday in New York City. KHOU received a Peabody for its investigative series on Firestone tires, making the station the recipient of every major broadcast journalism award for 2000, and Haag received a special Peabody for his long-standing contributions to journalism and the broadcast industry. View Full Story KHOU-TV Wins duPont-Columbia University Award for Firestone Investigative Series
Belo announced that KHOU-TV, the Company's CBS affiliate in Houston, Texas, has been awarded an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. KHOU's investigative team, the 11 News Defenders, received a Silver Baton for its series on potential problems with Firestone tires. Following the series, Firestone issued a recall of more than six million tires. View Full Story |
