WTJU wins four awards!
By Nathan Moore
WTJU has won four programming awards this year from the Virginia Association of Broadcasters, including two 1st place trophies. In non-commercial radio, we were winners for these program entries:
Best Community Event (1st place). Unsilent Night. Last December, WTJU organized an outdoor, walking, holiday-season soundscape through the streets of Charlottesville, drawing scores of people together for a new sort of holiday tradition.
— Mark your calendars for Thursday, Dec 2, 2021 7 p.m. — we’re holding Unsilent Night again this year!
Best Human Interest Series (1st place). Black Fiddlers of Monticello. A series of feature stories about David McCormick’s downtown walking tour about the remarkable musical careers of the Hemmings family and the other black fiddlers of Monticello. Produced by Mary Garner McGehee.
Best Station Promo (2nd place). Make Me a Rock Deal. Don Harrison and the WTJU PSA players brought the magic again. Edited by Lewis Reining.
Award for Creative Excellence (2nd place). Quarantine Haikus. In partnership with The Bridge PAI, we produced and aired a raft of crowd-sourced haikus about social distancing in the early months of the pandemic. Special thanks to Alan Goffinski from The Bridge.
Listen to all of these award winners here: https://soundcloud.com/wtju/sets/2021-vab-award-winners
