IC Student Media Win National Awards

11/12/04

ICTV, WICB-FM and the Ithacan received national recognition at the College Media Advisers fall conference in Nashville last weekend.

In the Associated Collegiate Press' on-site best of show competition, ICTV's NewsWatch 16 won best television news program. The Ithacan won second place among 49 entries in the four-year weekly tabloid newspaper division and was a finalist in the prestigious Pacemakers competition.

Collegiate Broadcasters Inc., representing students involved in radio, television, and webcasting, sponsored the National Student Production Awards. Ithaca winners by category were:

• Best radio feature
  Hold On: Breaking the Silence, on the topic of depression and suicide
  Produced by members of the 2003-2004 radio news team
• Best radio sports play by play
  IC Basketball
  Announcers Ed Cohen '05 and Steve Kerwin '06
• Best TV newscast
  Newswatch 16
  Produced by members of the spring 2004 television news team
• Best TV news reporting
  Ice Fishing
  Reporter Adam Aurand '04, photographer Peter Busa '05
• Best video promotion
  ICTV.org
  Director/animator Robert Edwards '05
• Best TV technical production
  By the Book, a comedy enacted by hand puppets
  Producer Don Ferlazzo '05
• Finalist -- radio sports play by play
  IC Football
  Announcers Ed Cohen '05 and Jesse Goldberg-Strassler '04
• Finalist -- radio promotion
  A promo for Hold On: Breaking the Silence
  Producer Dan Henning '06
• Finalist -- TV news reporting
  The Rose Inn Fire
  Reporter Evan Axelbank '05, photographer Sean Colahan '04
• Finalist -- TV sportscast
  Newswatch 16 Sports
  Producers Matt Millson '06 and Ed Cohen '05
• Finalist -- TV sports play by play
  Football -- Ithaca v. Cortland
  Announcers Chris Onorato '04 and Adam Aurand '04
• Finalist -- regularly scheduled TV program
  Thirty Minutes, a sketch comedy series
  Producers Chris Caccioppoli '05 and Dave Ferguson '06
• Finalist -- music video
  Photobooth
  Produced by Andrew Rowe '04 and Abhinav Bhat '04

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