FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 23, 2010
New Vision Congratulates KIMT for Winning Top Honor for Half-Hour Special
KIMT Wins Top Honor for Half-Hour Special
[Los Angeles, CA – April 23, 2010] – New Vision Television is proud to announce that the KIMT sports department has earned a prestigious regional honor.
Jeff Zell and A.J. Ellingson’s 2009 Pigskin Preview has won a first-place Eric Sevareid Award from the Northwest Broadcast News Association (NBNA).
The sports department compiled many hours of interviews and footage to produce the half-hour high school football preview show that highlighted many of the teams in North Iowa and Southern Minnesota.
The small market honor is the second in the last three years for the KIMT sports staff. The department previously won an Eric Sevareid Merit Award in 2007.
The NBNA includes television stations in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
About New Vision Television
With corporate offices in Atlanta and Los Angeles, New Vision Television and its predecessor companies have owned and operated more than 30 television stations across the country since 1993. New Vision’s current holdings include:
Major Network Affiliates
• KOIN Portland, OR (CBS)
• KBNZ Bend, OR (CBS)
• WIAT Birmingham, AL (CBS)
• KHON Honolulu, HI (FOX)
• Hawaii’s CW 93 Honolulu, HI (CW)
• KSNW Wichita, KS (NBC)
• KTMJ Topeka, KS (FOX)
• KSNT Topeka, KS (NBC)
• WJCL Savannah, GA (ABC)
• WTGS Savannah, GA (FOX)*
• WKBN Youngstown, OH (CBS)
• WYFX Youngstown, OH (FOX)
• WYTV Youngstown, OH (ABC)*
• KIMT Mason City, IA (CBS)
* Stations not licensed to New Vision, but to which New Vision provides services under joint sales and shared services agreements.
Additional non-affiliate stations
• Untamed Sports TV Birmingham, AL
• MyYTV Youngstown, OH
• MyTV Mason City, IA