Belo Stations Win Big at Regional Murrow Awards

Belo stations garnered 38 Edward R. Murrow Awards for 2005 in regional competitions.

The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA)--which presents the awards--honored the Dallas-based company's stations with nearly 40 percent of the awards for which they were eligible, in 10 categories.

KVUE-TV in Austin, Texas in Region 6 small market category, won nine out of 10 awards. WCNC-TV in Charlotte, N.C. went home with six of 12 large market awards in Region 8.

The following is a complete list of the awards that Belo won.


  • Region: Station: Region Categories
  • 1: KING-TV: Large: Overall Excellence, Sports Reporting,
    Web Site Broadcast-Affiliated
  • 1: KGW-TV: Large: Continuing Coverage, News Documentary,
    Newscast
  • 1: KTVB-TV: Small: Continuing Coverage, Sports Reporting,
    Spot News Coverage, Web Site Broadcast-
    Affiliated
  • 3: KTVK-TV: Large: News Documentary
  • 6: WFAA-TV: Large: Feature Reporting, Sports Reporting,
    Writing
  • 6: KENS-TV: Large: News Documentary, Spot News Coverage,
    Videography
  • 6: KVUE-TV: Small: Overall Excellence, Continuing Coverage,
    News Documentary, News Series, Newscast,
    Spot News Coverage, Videography, Web Site
    Broadcast-Affiliated, Writing
  • 8: WCNC-TV: Large: Overall Excellence, Continuing Coverage,
    Feature Reporting, News Series, Newscast,
    Videography
  • 9: WWL-TV: Large: Continuing Coverage, Investigative
    Reporting, News Series, Spot News
    Coverage, Writing
  • 12: WVEC-TV: Large: Continuing Coverage