Sunday, June 10, 2007

Director's Alert: WKYC Takes Top Honors At Ohio AP Awards

WKYC was named Outstanding News Operation in the Major Market Television category by the Ohio Associated Press Broadcasters for 2006. Winners of the group's annual contest were announced this afternoon at an awards luncheon at the Hilton Columbus.

Channel 3 also received a number of other awards including:

Best Continuing Coverage (First Place) - WKYC-TV, Cleveland, "Summer Flood of '06"

Best Enterprise Reporting (2nd Place) - Bill Safos, WKYC-TV, Cleveland, "Pig Farm Abuse"

Best Reporter (2nd Place) - Carl Monday, WKYC-TV, Cleveland (1st place went to New Channel 3 investigative reporter, Tom Meyer)

Also, our congratulations to some of our radio partners including WTAM in Cleveland and WAKR in Akron for their awards in the various radio categories.

Check out a list of all of this year's winners: Click Here