NETA Honors Public TV's Best

PUBLIC TELEVISION’S BEST HONORED AT 2011 NETA CONFERENCE

(January 13, 2010 – Nashville, Tenn.)  The National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) honored 23 public broadcasters with awards Thursday on stage at the Loews Vanderbilt hotel. In all, thirty-one trophies in the areas of content production, promotion, community engagement, and instructional media were awarded.  The presentation was part of NETA’s annual conference, held this year in Nashville, Tennessee.

  

In addition to the NETA awards, the NETA Education Center board presented its Enterprise and Innovation Award to KET’s executive director Shae Hopkins and the KET education division for their exemplary success in delivering education services to generations of students, teachers, parents, and care providers throughout the state of Kentucky.

The 2010 NETA Awards winners are:

INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA
KET / Lexington Kentucky
            Art to Heart (Inservice)
            Scale City: The Road to Proportional Reasoning (Instructional Content)
Blue Ridge PBS / Roanoke
            Virginia in the Civil War: A Sesquicentennial Remembrance
             (Instructional Content)
Penn State Public Broadcasting / WPSU
            Blue Ribbon Readers (Instructional Media Product)
Wyoming PBS / Riverton
            Wyoming Field Trip (Instructional Media Product)
Utah Educational Network / Salt Lake City
            Finance In The Classroom (Teacher Resource)

PROMOTION

KMOS / Warrensburg
            My Source: The Bacon Brothers – Michael’s Revenge (Corporate/Institutional)
Nashville Public Television
            Where Will NPT Take You Next?  (Corporate/Institutional)
            Children’s Health Crisis Long-lead Promo (Single Video)

Idaho Public Television / Boise
            My Source (Corporate/Institutional)
Milwaukee Public Television
            Great Circus Parade Station Carriage Promotion (Print Design)

WCTE / Cookeville
            Close-Up Program Guide Redesign (Print Design)
Wyoming PBS / Riverton
            Alan K. Simpson (Promotion Campaign)
South Carolina ETV / Columbia
            G-Man: The Rise & Fall of Melvin Purvis (Promotion Campaign)
South Dakota Public Broadcasting / Vermillion
            Neutrino Day (Single Video)
New Hampshire Public Television / Durham
            MESY- Math, Engineering, Science & You! (Single Video)
WXEL / West Palm Beach
            Forever Young (Special Event)
Thirteen/WNET.org / New York
            Spark of Learning (Special Event)

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
MontanaPBS / Bozeman
            Blueprint America: Parks & Trails Montana (based on a national project)
AETN / Conway
            Arkansas State & National Parks Initiative (based on a national project)
Wisconsin Public Television / Madison
            Back in the World: Portraits of Wisconsin Vietnam Veterans (based on a local
             project)
Blue Ridge PBS / Roanoke
            JobQuest (based on a local project)
            JobQuest (Community Impact)

CONTENT  PRODUCTION
Mississippi Public Broadcasting / Jackson
            The Gulf Islands: Mississippi’s Wilderness Shore (History)
Mountain Lake PBS / Plattsburgh
            Dead Reckoning: Champlain in America (History)
WLRN / Miami
            All in the Same Boat: Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors (Information)
Blue Ridge PBS / Roanoke
            JobQuest (News and Public Affairs)
            JobQuest (Information)

Wyoming PBS / Riverton
            Wyoming Performances Presents the Cheyenne Symphony (Performance)
KUED / Salt Lake City
            Red Rock Rondo (Performance)
Nashville Public Television
            NPT Reports: Children’s Health Crisis (Science)
Vermont Public Television / Colchester
            Emerging Science, Season 3  (Science)

The NETA Awards are annual recognition of member-produced excellence in public broadcasting, a tradition established more than forty years ago by the pioneering Southern Educational Communications Association. 

NETA is a professional association founded in 1997 to serve public television licensees and affiliated educational organizations.  The organization has members in 42 states, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands.  NETA is headquartered in Columbia, SC.