Brings Home Multiple Honors at National Educational Telecommunications Association Conference
Bethlehem, PA – January 24, 2018 – The PBS39 education team brought home two NETA awards last night during a ceremony in Washington, DC hosted by the National Educational Telecommunications Association. The first award in the category of Engaged Learning was for “First Vote in a Polarized Age: Lafayette College Election Night Broadcast”, a special broadcast created through a partnership between Lafayette College and PBS39. In the category of Locally Sourced Content, PBS39 won the award for “Wyomissing: An American Dream”, an original production documenting the history of a Berks County borough that knits together three themes; community, family and industry in the story of the borough’s founding fathers, Ferdinand Thun and Henry Janssen.
The NETA conference is a three-day, annual event in Washington, DC, where public media organizations from around the country meet for a “Public Media Thought Leader Forum” presented by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The event includes guest speakers, a lineup of professional development sessions, receptions, and the NETA Awards. There are three hundred fifty PBS member stations nationwide, and only thirty awards are presented. PBS39 was one of only seven public media organizations to win multiple awards at the ceremony.
“It’s such an exciting time at PBS39, and we are honored to be recognized for the outstanding work of our education team,” says Tim Fallon, CEO of PBS39. “We understand the importance of education through public media and how it affects the lives of our members and viewers. By creating such high quality, award-winning content and delivering it across multiple platforms we will continue to strive toward our vision of creating a community that is inspired, engaged and vibrant.”
About PBS39
PBS39 is a community-owned public television station licensed to Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton, Pa., serving eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. PBS39 is owned and operated by the Lehigh Valley Public Telecommunications Corporation. PBS39 acts as the catalyst to promote civic engagement, and to fulfill the regional needs of the Greater Lehigh Valley through its dynamic communication platforms and resources. For more information, visit wlvt.org.
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DaWayne Cleckley
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