TheTalk 1 Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 abc27 takes home some top honors at AP awards show Posted: May 19, 2013 1:48 PM EDT Updated: May 19, 2013 1:48 PM EDT By Katie Mae Bassler - email HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) - abc27 (WHTM-TV) is the proud winner of 7 first-place and 5 second- and third-place awards at Saturday night's the Associated Press awards show. Additionally abc27 was given the honor of being this year's Joe Snyder Award for Outstanding News Organization recipient. abc27 won first place for its continuing coverage of the trial and sentencing of Jerry Sandusky. Reporter and anchor Dennis Owens and photojournalists Joe Camut and Eric Heisler also received first place in the series category for their reports on retired state employees who were 'triple-dipping.' Eric Finkenbinder won first place for best weathercast, and first place in photojournalism went to abc27's Kyle Cooper. Megan Healey and photojournalist Eric Heisler won first prize in the feature category for their series on a Pennsylvania soldier who anonymously donated a portion of her liver to a Vietnam War veteran. Eric Heisler also won second place in news photography. Photojournalists Eric Heisler, Kyle Cooper, Mike Kruleski and Kyrie George and reporter Dave Marcheskie received first place in the sports feature category for their story Harrisburg's roller derby team, and first place in sports photography. Reporter James Crummel, photojournalists Doug Watson and Mike Kruleski, and producers Missy Stricker and Liz Wisniewski won second place in the public affairs reporting category for abc27's Operation Sandy Relief project. Reporter Kendra Nichols and photographer Mike Kruleski received second place for their coverage of the Wilson Middle School explosion that left 8 injured. Reporters Dave Marcheskie, Dan Carrigan and Jeannie Flitner and photojournalists Kyle Gamble, Dwayne Myers and Kyrie George won third place for their coverage of the manhunt that led to the arrest of Clarence Shaffer, and the abc27 News at 6 team received third place for the best regularly scheduled newscast. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/12657-whtm-takes-top-honors/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
susquvalleywgal 517 Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 But yet, they don't have a professional newscast. And BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE. -- Matt Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/12657-whtm-takes-top-honors/#findComment-82432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTalk 1 Posted June 4, 2013 Author Share Posted June 4, 2013 Word on the street is huge audience gains for 27 in the May book. Someone must disagree with you on the "professional" thing. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/12657-whtm-takes-top-honors/#findComment-83229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
susquvalleywgal 517 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Huge gains??? What, a whole share??? That will hardly make the dent against WGAL. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/12657-whtm-takes-top-honors/#findComment-83236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsitCC? 6 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Word on the street is huge audience gains for 27 in the May book. Someone must disagree with you on the "professional" thing. Would you still consider Brett Thackara, the abc27 AM meteorologist at below, as professional after seeing this photo? That explains him not winning any of those AP awards. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/12657-whtm-takes-top-honors/#findComment-83255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
susquvalleywgal 517 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 ^^^ Hardly 'professional' Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/12657-whtm-takes-top-honors/#findComment-83258 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Isn't WHTM's news product horrible/badly rated, from what I've heard? Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/12657-whtm-takes-top-honors/#findComment-83259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1955 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 You know any stations who aren't on top of the ratings, they tend to always rack up all the awards. And then they bloat it on news opens and station IDs. I remember when Ahern ran WBBM, they would be the first to rack up all those awards, and they were still last, I mean third place. Just because 27 won some awards, it won't stop the station's status quo. Word on the street is huge audience gains for 27 in the May book. Someone must disagree with you on the "professional" thing. Where's the proof? I want to see those numbers. Did they finally dethrone WGAL? Oh, I guess not. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/12657-whtm-takes-top-honors/#findComment-83260 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samantha 2895 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Part of the problem, from something else posted here recently that I read (something 27 acknowledges and something I can certainly understand), is that 27 wins certain parts of the split-city market but not others (WGAL dominates in one area, WHTM in another). Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/12657-whtm-takes-top-honors/#findComment-83261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CircleSeven 1955 Posted June 4, 2013 Share Posted June 4, 2013 Part of the problem, from something else posted here recently that I read (something 27 acknowledges and something I can certainly understand), is that 27 wins certain parts of the split-city market but not others (WGAL dominates in one area, WHTM in another). It's a four city market, which city win which? I thought WGAL is the big ape in the market. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/12657-whtm-takes-top-honors/#findComment-83264 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTalk 1 Posted June 4, 2013 Author Share Posted June 4, 2013 Whp and pmt have the lowest ratings in this market. 27 has always been a dominant player in the Capitol region which is Harrisburg, Carlisle and Lebanon in much the same way that gal is dominant in York and Lancaster county. Whp has been in the tank for years. Link to comment https://localnewstalk.net/topic/12657-whtm-takes-top-honors/#findComment-83265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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