PBS39 Wins Two NETA Awards
Brings Home Multiple Honors at National Education Telecommunications Association Conference
On January 23rd, the PBS39 Education Team brought home two NETA Awards during a ceremony in Washington, DC hosted by the National Eduction 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, were public media organizations from around the country meet for a "Public Media Thought Leader Forum" presented by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. There are three hundred fifty PBS member stations nationwide, and only 30 awards are presented. PBS39 was one of only seven public media organizations to win multiple awards at the ceremony.
PBS39's Grover Silcox with the NETA Award for "Locally Sourced Content"
Group photo of all winners at the 2018 NETA Awards ceremony