BYU Gets Best in National Broadcast Competition

Posted on: 06-29-2010 Posted in: Summer 2010

By Cierra Nye

One BYU advertising faculty member and nine BYU broadcasting students received awards at the annual Festival of Media Arts for excellence in broadcast media. The awardees were formally recognized at the Festival of Media Arts, during the annual convention hosted by the Broadcast Education Association at the Las Vegas Convention Center held April 15 through 17.

Christopher Curtis, a BYU advertising faculty member, received the Award of Excellence in the Commercial/PSA Category for Faculty for his commercial “Gerardo – Tried to Quit”.
Kellie Goff White, Kim Dalton Sigety and Dale Green received second place in the Documentary Long‐Form Category for their documentary “A Turn for Ghana”.
Valerie Charlton and Heidi Hansen received Honorable Mention in the Documentary Long-Form Category for their documentary “An Offering to Please God”.
Dave Herd received Best in Festival in the Radio Report Competition and First Place in the Radio Feature News Reporting Category for his report “Marching Band”.
Matt Gittins and Josh Guest both received Honorable Mention in the Television Feature News Reporting Category for their reports “SASS” and “Unicycle”, respectively.
Robbie Bullough received second place in the Television Sports Anchor Competition for his sports anchoring.

Contestants for the Festival of Media Arts submitted their entries in November and the festival committee announced winners in February. The students and faculty in the BYU Broadcast program write and produce the Daily News at Noon, one of only three daily student‐run news shows in the nation. Students in the Broadcast program get hands‐on experience producing the daily news show, with students acting as anchors, writers, editors and executive producers.

“[These awards show] that we have a top-quality program that is recognized by the industry and academics that’s producing top students,” said Chad Curtis, lab manager for BYU’s Daily News. “It’s nice to see their hard work awarded and recognized for its quality.”