Kentucky Wesleyan College’s FM radio station, WKWC 90.3, participated in the Broadcast Education Association’s (BEA) Festival of Media Arts for the third consecutive year and received three awards.
Logan Reed, a communication arts major and Rogers Fellow, received third place in the Student On-Air Personality Competition. His entry was a 5-minute reel-based submission and included talk sets and ramps into/out of songs and show segments. You can hear “DJ Reed’s Rewind” this semester on Mondays and Fridays from 9-11 a.m.
Ricky Simpson, exercise science major, received an Award of Excellence in the PSA, Promo or Commercial Category. This category featured original station, event or show promo spots, or commercials created for a product or service. His submission featured fully written and produced radio station imaging/promotion for “Footloose Friday,” an all-80’s feature heard during the summer months on WKWC.
Derik Hancock, KWC instructor of communications and WKWC manager, received an Award of Excellence in the Long-Form Production in the faculty competition. WKWC and Theatre Workshop of Owensboro’s Trinity Radio Players partnered together in October to present the “CBS Radio Version of War of the Worlds.” The production was directed by Todd Reynolds and featured actors from around the Owensboro community. Voices heard in the radio drama were recorded by communications arts major Mason Leech. The submission was a showcase of Hancock’s production.
“To be recognized by the BEA in any form is an amazing accomplishment for colleges and universities,” Hancock said. “The competition was fierce this year. There were over 1,650 faculty and student submissions. I am extremely proud of Logan and Ricky. I also want to mention how proud I am of all the entries Kentucky Wesleyan College submitted this year. We believe in our students and their hard work.”
Kentucky Wesleyan College first began competing in the Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts in 2021 and has been recognized each year since.
For more information about WKWC or to listen to the students’ shows, podcasts and more, visit WKWC.org.
