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Austin TV stations shut out at Murrow awards
Austin’s TV stations — big winners in last year’s Edward R. Murrow Awards competition — failed to snag a single trophy this year.
In Region 6, which includes Oklahoma and Texas, stations from Tulsa were the big winners this time around, snagging five of the nine awards presented to “small market” broadcasters. Stations in Beaumont, Sherman and Weslaco also took home some hardware.
Last year, KVUE scooped up six awards, including overall excellence honors for the fifth straight year. KEYE, KXAN and News 8 Austin each got one Murrow award.
The news wasn’t quite as bleak in the radio division, where KUT, Austin’s NPR affiliate, claimed four awards:
Overall excellence;
Continuing coverage for its reporting on the raid at a West Texas ranch housing members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints;
News documentary for a piece on Willie Nelson; and
Sports reporting for a feature on members of the 1948 Austin American Legion baseball team, who are still friends 60-plus years later.
The Murrows are presented annually by the Radio-Television News Directors Association.
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