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TV2 Wins Station of the Year, Best Entertainment Show at CMA Awards

For the second year in a row, Ā鶹¾«Ń”ā€™s TV2 has taken top honors in the College Media Associationā€™s (CMA) Pinnacle Awards, earning the 2013 TV Station of the Year award at the CMA National College Media Convention in New Orleans. TV2 is Kent Stateā€™s nationally award-winning, high-definition digital TV station.

The Agenda, TV2ā€™s topical comedy-satire show, also won Best TV Entertainment Program.

Overall, TV2 was a finalist in four of five TV categories in the 2013 national competition, including Best Sportscast and Best Newscast. In 2012, TV2 also won Station of the Year and Best Sportscast.

ā€œThe Pinnacle is an extraordinary honor and well-deserved recognition of our studentsā€™ hard work,ā€ said John Butte, practitioner-in-residence at Kent Stateā€™s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and TV2 advisor. ā€œWinning two years in a row confirms the very high standards our students set for themselves and attain.ā€

TV2 general manager and senior electronic media major Katy Coduto credits the stationā€™s continued success in national competitions to the strong work ethic of the TV2 team.

ā€œIā€™m incredibly proud of our station and the work weā€™ve done over the past year,ā€ Coduto said. ā€œIt is an honor to be the college television Station of the Year again, and Iā€™m glad we were able to represent our entire staff so well in New Orleans. Everyone in TV2 should be proud of themselves and the hard work weā€™ve done because this is truly a team effort each and every day.ā€

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POSTED: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 08:47 AM
Updated: Thursday, December 8, 2022 12:13 PM
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