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NABEF Announces Service To America Winners
WASHINGTON -- March 27, 2008: The NAB Education Foundation has announced the winners of its 10th annual Celebration of Service to America Awards for community service by local broadcasters.
Hubbard Radio Hot AC KSTP-FM/Minneapolis will be presented with the Service to Children Award for radio for its "KS95 for Kids Radiothon," which raised more than $900,000 in 2007 for children dealing with cancer and other health issues. The station has a year-round partnership with Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare and Children's Cancer Research fund, and the annual 60-hour radiothon has raised more than $9.5 million since 1999.
ADX Communications' WYCT-FM/Pensacola, FL, will receive the Service to America Friend in Need Award for radio for its "Letters From Home" campaign to collect listener letters for a local Navy Reserve unit deploying to Kuwait. The campaign collected over 14,000 letters.
Omni Broadcasting of central Minnesota will be presented with the Service to America Partnership Award for its partnership with Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota on an annual "Radiothon to End Child Abuse." The 2007 radiothon on Omni's 12 stations raised $220,000, and the stations also provided free airtime worth $276,000.
The College Radio Award goes to Columbia College Chicago's WCRX/Chicago, for efforts including a food drive to benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository and its Job Outlook '07 program.
Additionally, Univision Communications and its local radio and TV stations take the Service to America President's Special Award for a comprehensive radio and TV campaign to educate and prepare Hispanic consumers for the transition to digital television.
As previously reported, NABEF's highest honor, the Leadership Award, will be presented to music-industry legend Quincy Jones, while Randy Owen will accept the Samaritan Award on behalf of Country Cares for St. Jude Kids.
The awards will be presented at the Celebration of Service to America Awards dinner, June 9 at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
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