CBS 42 Wins Three Alabama Broadcasters Association Awards Including Television Station of the Year

CBS 42 Wins Three Alabama Broadcasters Association Awards Including Television Station of the Year

WIAT – TV, CBS 42, is honored to be the recipient of three awards from the Alabama Broadcasters Association, including Best News Anchor, Best Local Programming, and the coveted Television Station of the Year award. All three awards were bestowed upon CBS 42 during an evening banquet at the Cahaba Grand Conference Center in Birmingham, AL on Saturday, March 24, 2012.

The Alabama Broadcasters Association awarded CBS 42 the following honors:
 Television Station of the Year – CBS 42
 Best News Anchor – Sherri Jackson
 Best Local Programming – “Deadly Deception”

“To win three major awards from the Alabama Broadcasters Association is a great honor,” said Bill Ballard, President of CBS 42. “I am especially proud of our entire staff for being recognized as the Television station of the Year. CBS 42 is the only station in the Birmingham market to have ever won the award. To win it for a second time is even more humbling.”

Bill Payer, CBS 42 News Director, said, “Sherri Jackson is one of the finest news anchors I have had the privilege to work with and she is very deserving of the Best News Anchor Award.” Payer continues, “In addition, having Deadly Deception win the Best Local Programming award is a testament to our staff’s hard work and proof that investigative journalism is alive and well at CBS 42.”

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