The University of Nebraska at Omaha’s college radio station, MavRadio.FM, earned top honors in five categories in the 2019 Broadcast Education Association’s international digital media and broadcast competition.
The Festival of Media Arts competition received more than 1500 entries from around the world including 300 colleges and universities. Among those universities sharing honors are: Arizona State University, Missouri State University, The American University in Cairo, Marquette University, Bowling Green University, Texas Tech, University of Central Florida, and Cal State-Fullerton. MavRadio.FM General Manager, Gabby Kesterson, said the staff keeps pushing each other out of their comfort zones in order to improve the quality of their production and overall educational experience. “All this hard work, school days, weekends, nights and holidays; it’s paying off,” said Kesterson. “Being recognized for their excellence is exactly what this staff deserves.”
Here is a list of this year’s award winners from UNO:
Faculty Radio Station Promo, PSA Commercial: Jodeane Brownlee & Michael Burns, Award of Excellence.
Radio Comedy or Drama: Michael Burns, First Place
Radio Comedy or Drama: Devon Maline, Award of Excellence
Radio Specialty Program: Ben Phillips, Harrison Popp, Anna Rodriguez and Simon Ristow, 2nd Place
Television Promotional: Lyle Kwiatkowski, Drew Roberts & Ryan Hollst, Award of Excellence
The mission of MavRadio KVNO HD-2 is to provide UNO students with the opportunity to gain professional radio experience to pursue a career in the broadcast industry. The student-operated radio station strives to provide college programming and sports play-by-play that isn’t available in the Omaha market. MavRadio.FM is a dynamic source of college radio talent merged with Top 100 music, cutting-edge production, and exclusive coverage of Omaha men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball and baseball. We are an inclusive team focused on raising the professionalism of radio to the next level by adding live, local and regional bands, comedians, movie producers, College World Series coverage, College Radio Day participation, and arena football. Our station can be heard streaming on MavRadio.FM, the TuneIn app, or on KVNO 90.7 HD2.
