During the virtual SPJ Region 1 Mark of Excellence Awards ceremony held on Saturday, April 10, 2021, ICTV and WICB were recognized for outstanding broadcast journalism and news coverage. During the virtual SPJ Region 1 Mark of Excellence Awards ceremony held on Saturday, April 10, 2021, ICTV and WICB were recognized for outstanding broadcast journalism and news coverage.
Daniel Passante's television package Sports During the COVID-19 Pandemic took first place in the Television Sports Reporting category. As a first-place regional winner, Daniel's entry will now advance to the SPJ national competition.
In addition, the following ICTV submissions were recognized as finalists in their respective categories:
Best Television Feature
Mark Scaglione - Tourism Spooked by a Pandemic
Best Television In-Depth Reporting
Mark Scaglione - Pandemic Impact on Ithaca Airport and Air Travel
Best Television In-Depth Reporting
Madison Moore - Passion vs. Pandemic
Best All-Around Television News Magazine
Madison Moore, Jack Culkin and Quinten Hernandez - ICTV Reports 11-5-2020
Also, WICB was recognized as a finalist in the following category:
Best All-Around Radio Newscast
Ithaca Now 7-19-2020
The above episode of Ithaca Now was produced by WICB News Director Jay Bradley and featured reporting from Lauren Leone and Vedant Akhauri. The episode was hosted by Selin Tuter.
Ithaca College Television (ICTV) is Ithaca's student-run television station with over twenty weekly shows in production each semester. ICTV programming airs Sunday through Thursday on the City of Ithaca's Educational Cable Access Channel (Spectrum 16) and streams at ictv.org.
WICB is Ithaca's student-run FM radio station and can be heard locally on 91.7 FM. Programming also streams at wicb.org and is available on the WICB iOS mobile app, plus iHeart and TuneIn Radio.
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20210413092557187