McConnell Wins Career Achievement Award

6-6-13

WTOP Radio?s Capitol Hill correspondent, Dave McConnell, has been named by the Radio & Television Correspondents? Association as the first-ever recipient of the ?Career Achievement Award for Distinguished Reporting on Congress.? This is a new award established by the RTCA to honor those journalists who represent career achievement and dedication to Congressional coverage. The award further highlights House and Senate reporting that is respected and considered a model for all. The RTCA presented the honor Wednesday night in Washington, D.C.

McConnell, a veteran journalist with more than 50 years of reporting in Washington, has covered decades of presidential elections, White House administrations, Watergate, and more. He joined WTOP in 1965 and became the station?s full-time Capitol Hill correspondent in 1981, a position which he still holds today. McConnell is a Maryland native and has received numerous awards over the years, including an A.I.R. ?Lifetime Achievement Award? and a Society of Professional Journalists ?Hall of Fame Award.?

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Kalmenson to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

2-14-2012

Radio Ink Publisher and CEO Eric Rhoads says Howard Kalmenson, the President & CEO of Lotus Communications, will receive this year's Lifetime Achievement honor in Radio Ink's Medallas de Cortez Hispanic Radio Awards. This is the highest honor in the Medallas de Cortez, named after Hispanic radio pioneer Raoul Cortez. Kalmenson founded Lotus in 1962 with the purchase of KWKW-AM, one of Los Angeles' original Spanish-language stations. The company has grown into one of the largest privately owned radio station groups in the United States, operating a total of 27 stations, 13 of them Spanish-language.

Radio Ink EVP/Radio and Hispanci Radio Conference manager Deborah Parenti said "Mr. Kalmenson's long record of accomplishment and dedication to Spanish radio is recognized and admired among everyone in Hispanic media. Rhoads added, "Howard is a true pioneer who suffered tremendous hardship to follow the path he believed in for Hispanic radio. His efforts made today's success possible, and the entire industry needs to come out to honor his trailblazing."

Eduardo Caballero, previous recipient of the Medallas de Cortez Lifetime Achievement Award and this year's Honorary Chair of the Hispanic Radio Conference, says, "Together with Herb Levin in Miami, Mel Karmazin in New York, and Nathan Safir in San Antonio, Howard Kalmenson played a very big part in my first connection with Spanish radio, when my late wife, Raquel, and I created Caballero Spanish Media/Caballero Radio Network, 40 years ago.

"Howard did not have to do Spanish radio on KWKW/Los Angeles and KOXR/Oxnard-Ventura, but he wanted to do it, he did it, and he continues with absolute dedication, pride, and a great deal of success. Howard and his company, Lotus Communications, are true pioneers in the U.S. Hispanic broadcasting industry. No one deserves the Lifetime Achievement Award more than mi amigo Howard, who has always served the Hispanic communities of Los Angeles with mucho respeto."

The 2012 Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference will be held March 21-22 at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bay in San Diego. Focusing on radio and digital platforms and initiatives, the conference will bring Hispanic broadcasters and agencies together to analyze the latest census data, create industry unity, and formulate strategies to take Hispanic radio to the highest possible level of revenues. The strongest Hispanic economy in the world presents unique challenges and a wealth of opportunity. Don't miss your chance to be a part of the next wave at the 2012 Hispanic Radio Conference. Book your seat today!

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Glen Campbell to Receive CRS Achievement Award

1-31-2012
From the upcoming Country Radio Seminar in Nashville, a few pieces of news. Tickets are limited for the Country Radio Hall of Fame Dinner and Ceremony being held Tuesday, February 21st. Glen Campbell will receive the 2012 Career Achievement Award at the dinner. Also, the CRS 2012 New Faces show and Renaissance Nashville hotel have sold out prior to Country Radio Seminar for the second year in a row. As a result, the CRS Board of Directors has extended the $499 seminar registration rate, but registrations will no longer include a ticket to the New Faces show.

?For the second consecutive year, we have sold out our New Faces show,? says CRS Executive Director Bill Mayne.  ?Since we are no longer able to offer New Faces tickets with CRS 2012 registrations, we have decided to extend our $499 Regular Rate, which had previously expired on Jan. 27.  We are proud to put on such a unique and in-demand event that showcases some of the brightest new stars at our New Faces of Country Music Dinner and Performance.?

Warner Music Nashville?s Faith Hill has been confirmed to headline a special luncheon performance at CRS 2012 on Friday, February 24th. The WMN luncheon will be held inside the Performance Hall at the Nashville Convention Center at noon. And as previously announced, the CRS President?s Award recipient is Bob Kingsley, and the 2012 Country Radio Hall of Fame inductees are Beverlee Brannigan, Moby, Ron Rogers, Eddie Stubbs, Rusty Walker and Bill Whyte.

CRS 2012 is held Feb. 22-24, 2012, at the Nashville Convention Center. Register for CRS 2012 at www.CountryRadioSeminar.com.

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Smulyan Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

June 28, 2011
Typically a lifetime achievement award is handed out at the end of someone's career. Jeff Smulyan would probably argue that a new phase at Emmis, under his leadership is about to begin. The Indiana Broadcasters Association will bestow upon Smulyan its lifetime achievement award at a dinner this October. President & CEO of the IBA Linda Compton says ?Jeff represents the very best that the Indiana Broadcast industry has to offer. ?We are delighted to recognize his unflagging passion for our industry through this lifetime achievement honor.? While not at the end of his career it was 31 years ago next month that Smulyan's Emmis broadcasting put WIBC on the air in Indianapolis.

The award, created in 2006, recognizes individuals for especially meritorious service, contributions to or achievements in the field of broadcasting in Indiana over the course of a career.  This is the Indiana Broadcasters Association highest honor and is presented to an Indiana broadcaster whose work is unusually beneficial and of superior value to their community and to the Association. The award ceremony will be held in conjunction with the Indiana Broadcasters Association and Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame event, to be held Thursday, October 6, 2011 at The Fountains, Carmel, Indiana.

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