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Jan. 3, 2006
WMUL Students Receive 3 Bronze Omni Awards
By HNN Staff
Huntington, WV (HNN) –Students from WMUL-FM, Marshall University’s public
radio station, received three Bronze Omni Awards in The Omni Intermedia
Awards Fall 2005 Radio Competition. The winners were announced Dec. 16 by
Media Corp. Inc. in Lexington, Ky.
The Bronze Omni Award winning entries by WMUL-FM were in the Radio
Commercials, Promos and PSAs, and Radio Sports Play-By-Play categories. The
latest awards bring the 2005-2006 total for WMUL students to 30.
“This is an outstanding accomplishment to be recognized as having produced
some of the better sports play-by-play and public service announcements in
the country,” said Dr. Chuck G. Bailey, professor of Electronic Media
Management in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications
at Marshall and faculty manager of WMUL-FM.
“I am proud of the honor these Bronze Omni Awards bestow on WMUL-FM, the W.
Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications and Marshall
University. This is truly a remarkable achievement considering that the
Journalism and Mass Communications students are listed as winners alongside
some of the nation’s more notable commercial production companies.”
Here are WMUL-FM’s Bronze Omni Award winning entries:
Best Public Service Announcement
“Didn’t You See?” an in-house public service announcement broadcast in
WMUL-FM’s Public Service Announcement rotation from Wednesday, April 13,
2005 through the present time, written and produced by Jen Smith, a senior
from Huntington.
Best Sports Play-By-Play
WMUL-FM’s broadcast of the Marshall University versus The Ohio State
University football game in Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2004. The
students calling the game broadcast over 88.1 were football play-by-play
announcer Vince Payne, a graduate student from Hansford, W.Va.; color
commentator Alex Reed, a graduate student from Virginia Beach, Va., and
engineer Brandon Millman, a junior from Huntington.
Best Sports Play-By-Play
WMUL-FM’s broadcast of the Marshall University versus the College of William
and Mary football game at the Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington
Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. The students calling the game broadcast over 88.1
were football play-by-play announcer Alex Reed, a graduate student from
Virginia Beach, Va., and color commentator Dave Wilson, a junior from St.
Marys, W.Va.
Radio entries were judged on audio quality and concept development. In order
to judge the entries, the Omni Intermedia Awards brings together a wide
variety of professionals working for highly respected companies.
Winners of the Gold, Silver and Bronze Omni Awards come from radio stations,
production facilities, advertising and public relations agencies, government
entities, technicians, narrators, writers, and other professionals
associated with the production of audio broadcasts and materials. Some Omni
Award winners include Global Television, Television Suisse Romande,
Canadian Television, ABC News, CBN International, National Geographic
Ventures, MTV, VH1, U.S. Army, Canon USA, Telemundo, Warner Brothers, The
Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Learning Channel, Eastman Kodak and The
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“The Omni Awards were created to recognize the accomplishments of
outstanding media production in a variety of fields,” Jim Owens, Senior
Administrator of the Omni Intermedia Awards, said. “This award recognizes
the converging field of media production and rewards those companies who can
capture the imagination and effectively communicate their message.”
