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CBS 5 WINS 12 APTRA AWARDS

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CBS 5 WINS 12 APTRA AWARDS

 

CBS 5 WINS 12 APTRA AWARDS

 

San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose-- CBS 5 (KPIX-TV) Eyewitness News won 12 Associated Press Television-Radio Association (APTRA) awards (www.aptra.org) -- more than any other station -- in this year's APTRA competition for California, Nevada, Hawaii, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington, and Idaho. The awards were presented on March 15, 2008 at The Globe Theater, Universal Studios Hollywood.  The winners include:



Best News Broadcast - 30 Minutes:   "CBS 5 Eyewitness News at 11" Brian Neal, Dana King, Ken Bastida and Dan Rosenheim

 

Best Anchor or Anchor Team Allen Martin and Thuy Vu

 

Chris Harris Reporter of the Year Anna Werner


Best Use of a News Website:  cbs5.com


 

Best VOD, POD or Webcast of a regularly scheduled program exclusively for the web : Brian's Daily Briefing

 

Best Use of Web: Breaking News Coverage : "Maze Collapse"

 

Best Sports Segment: Dennis O'Donnell and Anthony Catchatoorian

 

Best Investigative Reporting:   "Parking Hustles and Hassles"

 

Best Weathercast Segment:  "Roberta Gonzales Pinpoint Forecast" Roberta Gonzales and Eric Elliott

 

Best Coverage of an Ongoing Story:   "The Wireless Runaround II"

 

Best Serious Feature: "Behind The Green Box" Anna Werner, Abigail Sterling, Craig Franklin, Gerard Watson, and Jeff Harris

 

Best Light Feature :  "Valet Confidential" Anna Werner, Abigail Sterling, Gerard Watson

 

"I am very proud of the work we do, and this type of recognition is always gratifying" said Dan Rosenheim, Vice President and News Director of CBS 5 (KPIX-TV).

 

CBS 5/The CW 44cable 12 are part of the CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corporation (http:// www.cbscorporation.com ).

CBS 5 (http://www.cbs5.com) began in 1948 as the first television station in Northern California. The CW 44cable 12(www.kbcwtv.com) began in 1968 as the first UHF station in the Bay area. The two stations became a duopoly in 2002.

Media contact:  Akilah Monifa, Director of Communications, 415 765 8842, amonifa@cbs.com

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