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ideastream Recognized for Public Broadcasting Excellence

For more information, contact:
Lisa Goss, Communications Specialist, 216/916-6134

June 30, 2015 – (Cleveland, OH) – In honor of the milestone that WVIZ/PBS is celebrating this year—50 years of programming and public service in Northeast Ohio—the Lower Great Lakes Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored ideastream with the President’s Award from the Board of Governors at its regional Emmy Awards event in Indianapolis last weekend. ideastream President and CEO Jerry Wareham accepted the award. ideastream also took home 12 Emmys in 6 different categories.

In addition, from welcoming new citizens to stirring up sauerkraut, and from caregiving to kayaking, ideastream has received a slate of national and regional awards honoring journalistic excellence and creativity for a variety of stories and projects, including ideastream Reporter/Producer Brian Bull, who won a National Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association in the Large Market Radio Writing category. And, ideastream collected more than a dozen Excellence in Journalism Awards from The Press Club of Cleveland and six awards from the Ohio Associated Press Media Editors Association (APME).

Info on more recent ideastream honors here , which also includes the recent following awards:

Greater Cleveland Partnership Honors ideastream with the 2015 Richard A. Shatten Leadership Award
The Greater Cleveland Partnership’s Annual Meeting on June 17 was an opportunity to showcase many of the region’s successes. The GCP also took the time to honor organizations and people that are standouts in contributing to Northeast Ohio’s current economic and social growth.

The GCP gave its 2015 Richard A. Shatten Leadership Award to ideastream and recognized the leadership of President and CEO Jerry Wareham and Chief Operating Officer Kit Jensen. According to the GCP, Wareham and Jensen were honored for “their accomplishments in creating and growing public television and radio in Northeast Ohio into an entity that serves almost three million people and has been recognized with numerous international, national, regional and statewide awards.”

The award is presented in memory of Shatten’s role in the economic revitalization of Cleveland as an accomplished educator and research mentor at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management and through his civic leadership with Cleveland Tomorrow and other organizations, according to the GCP.

National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation Honors WVIZ/PBS with Service to Children Award
As part of the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation (NABEF) 2015 Celebration of Service to America Awards, WVIZ/PBS received the Service to Children Award in the television category.

The NABEF presented the awards to the 2015 winners at a reception, June 16, in Washington, DC. The national awards recognize outstanding community service by local broadcasters, including WVIZ/PBS ideastream. U.S. Senator Rob Portman, R-Ohio, presented the award to WVIZ/PBS.

“These programs can be truly life changing, and we thank WVIZ for their hard work,” Senator Portman said.

WVIZ/PBS was singled out for helping to generate solutions in Cleveland. This includes broadcasting children’s educational programming every day, including 12 hours each weekday, and providing educational offerings to students, teachers and parents.

For example, WVIZ/PBS and its Education team continues its work in the Slavic Village neighborhood, one of the poorest and lowest-achieving areas in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. Along with community partners, the station focuses a multiple media early literacy program there, working in classrooms and in the community, even transforming an area hospital clinic’s waiting room into a vibrant learning lab where volunteers teach parents to read to their children and use PBS educational apps.

And, Slavic Village 8th graders attended a WVIZ/PBS ideastream Education dropout-prevention conference, where recent high school graduates inspired the younger students to continue their education, and the event culminated in a cap-and-gown ceremony.

“We are especially proud to receive this recognition,” said Jerry Wareham, President and CEO of ideastream. “Public TV and radio stations work every day with commercial colleagues in markets across this great nation to strengthen communities with programs and services that are available free to all. It’s all about Service to America."

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