Contact: Maridith Geuder
Communication professionals in several Mississippi State University offices are bringing home top awards from recent statewide competition.
Staff members at the campus radio station WMSV-FM, the University Television Center and the agricultural communications office received a combined total of 27 awards in separate competitions sponsored by the Mississippi Association of Broadcasters and the College Public Relations Association of Mississippi. Ten gold and five first-place awards, the highest given by the respective organizations, were among the MSU honors.
Specifically:
--WMSV, a 14,000-watt, 24-hour station primarily operated by students, collected five golds at last week's broadcast association convention in Gulfport. The recognitions involved the station's special 9/11 coverage, mid-day news program, two public service announcements, and a baseball promotional spot.
--The University Television Center, a full-service campus video and multimedia production center, received three MAB golds for "Insight," a student-produced newscast; the Coach Ron Polk show highlighting MSU baseball; and a public service announcement related to Black History Month.
--Agricultural communications, which serves the MSU Extension Service and other related programs, was awarded two MAB golds for a public service announcement about MSU-developed turf grass at the 2001 World Series and a program related to a state lumber enterprise.
MAB Silver Awards included:
--One to WMSV for its morning newscast.
--Two to the television center for the ThisWeek@MsState and "MSU On-Air" programs.
--Three to agricultural communications for "Southern Gardening with Norman Winter," a public service spot related to tailwater irrigation recycling and a public affairs program focusing on sunset corn maize.
In addition, agricultural communications staff members were presented with a total of 11 awards--including five first-place--at the College Public Relations Association of Mississippi's annual meeting. These included:
--First place for the College of Veterinary Medicine bulletin, a television program titled "Catch a Dream," a video presentation on the 4-H Centennial, the Web page msucares.com, and a public relations innovation titled MediaLink 2001.
--Second place for a television news story on corn yields, a segment on the weekly television program "Farmweek" and a segment of "Farmweek" on Public Radio in Mississippi.
--Third place for the magazine MAFES Research Highlights, a video spot for the National Association of Retired Federal Employees, and the Farmweek Web site.
MAFES is the acronym for the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, whose headquarters are located at MSU.