ABC7/WJLA-TV and NewsChannel 8 Win Thirteen Regional EMMY� Awards Including Regional Honor for ...
Arlington, VA, June 29, 2015 – WJLA-TV announced today that the station received thirteen regional Emmy® awards on Saturday, June 27th including the Regional Emmy for Station Excellence.
The Emmy® Award is the premier television production award presented in various sectors of the television industry, including entertainment programming, news and documentary shows, and sports programming.
Director of News Mitch Jacob said “It is an honor to be recognized for overall news excellence. We have a smart team at WJLA that is dedicated to bringing the most accurate and comprehensive news coverage to our viewers. I am very proud of this team and the work we are doing every day.”
The station was honored in the following categories:
Overall Excellence
WJLA News Staff
Newscast-Daytime
ABC7 News at 5: Gaithersburg Plane Crash-Brian Sasser
Newscast-Evening
ABC7 News at 11: Gaithersburg Plane Crash-Lauren Stauffer
Newscast-Weekend
ABC7 News at 6: Columbia Mall Shooting-Brenda Carden, Brad Bell, Kris Van Cleave, Hatzel Vela
Continuing Coverage-Within 24 Hours
Gaithersburg Plane Crash-Jay Korff, Jummy Olabanji, AnnaMaria Di Pietro, Michael Jaffe, Sara Van Aernum, Kendall Griggs, Michael Rudd, Vanessa Koolhof, Donna Harris, Ashley Billings, Joe DeFeo, Kimberly Suiters, John Gonzalez, Joce Suiters, Dave Lucas, Lauren Stauffer
Politics/Government-Program/Special
Town Hall: The New Terror Threat-Andrea Nejman, Scott Thuman, Joe DeFeo
Sports-News single Story/Series
100 Miles for 100 Children-Jay Korff, Tim Matthews
Sports-Daily or weekly Program
Sportstalk with Tattoo Tom-Winston Hylton, Alex Parker
Weather-News Single Story/Series
The Day Rock Creek Raged-Jay Korff, Van Applegate
Winter Storm Special Report 2014
Lauren Stauffer, Mike Friedrich, Jennifer Doren, Jay Korff, Roz Plater
Interview/Discussion-Program/Special
Town Hall: Ferguson: America Reacts-Andrea Nejman, Scott Thuman, Joe DeFeo
Reporter-General Assignment
Tales from Two Cities-Joce Sterman
Reporter-Multi Media Journalist
MMJ Composite-Mike Conneen
ABC7/WJLA-TV and News Channel 8’s parent company Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is the largest and one of the most diversified television broadcasting companies with affiliations with all the major networks. Sinclair's television group will reach approximately 38.9% of U.S. television households after pending transactions. The Company regularly uses its website as a key source of Company information which can be accessed at www.sbgi.net.
