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WFAA/Channel 8 won the most awards at the recent seventh annual Lone Star Emmy Awards, but practically every local station took home at least one award.
WFAA received 14 awards, including top awards for Station Excellence, presented to Mike Devlin, the station’s president and general manager, and Michael Valentine, the station’s news director. Valentine also received the award for News Excellence. The awards were presented last weekend in a ceremony at Gilley’s Dallas.Univision’s KUVN/Channel 23 was also honored in the Station Excellence category for its program Siempre Presente. Five people received the award, including general manager Becky Munoz-Diaz and news director Martha Kattan. Nancy Leal, an anchor for Telemundo’s KXTX/Channel 39, won an Emmy for her news-anchoring.KXAS/Channel 5 received 11 awards, including best larger-market morning newscast. The Lone Star Emmys honor stations statewide. For a complete list of winners, go to www.lonestaremmy.org.WFAA: Channel 8’s awards also included best larger-market 10 p.m. newscast and Best Sportscast for T.O. Let Go (Dale Hansen, anchor; Joe Trahan, reporter; Sean Hamilton, executive producer). The amusing Boston Legal promo campaign, featuring Hansen and weathercaster Pete Delkus bantering a la Boston Legal’s James Spader and William Shatner, won an Emmy for promotion. Hansen and Gordon Keith each won for commentary, and Keith won for an edition of The Gordon Keith Show. KXAS: The station’s morning newscast, NBC-5 Today, won the Emmy for best larger-market morning newscast. Brian Curtis, who co-anchors the 4 and 10 p.m. newscasts, won a writing award for Beijing Bound. Kristi Nelson, Curtis’ 4 p.m. co-anchor, won a Specialty Assignment Report award for Spotlight: Cleared by DNA (produced by Reginald Hardwick). Sports reporter Matt Barrie won two Emmys, one for Feature News Report for A Game of Hope (co-produced and photographed Noah Bullard), about incarcerated teens finding redemption through football, and one for On-Camera Talent/Sports. KDFW/Channel 4: The station’s consumer reporter, Steve Noviello, won the News Special award for Avoid the Glitch in Your Digital Switch. The station’s series Milking Medicare, reported by Becky Oliver, won the Investigative Report-Series award. The series was produced by Joe Ellis and Donna Ressl and photographed by William P. Fleiming. Chief meteorologist Dan Henry received an Emmy for his weather anchoring. KTVT/Channel 11: Bennett Cunningham, CBS-11’s investigative reporter, and his colleague Jack Fink received a Continuing Coverage award for their reporting on salaries at Dallas-Fort Worth airport. Cunningham also won for best on-camera investigative reporter and in the Politics/Government category for an investigation of travel spending among DART executives (producer Stuart Boslow, photographer Manuel Villela and executive producer Aaron Wische were also honored for the DART investigation).ROBERT PHILPOT, 817-390-7872
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