It takes a team to produce a newscast. And Saturday night, our team took home top honours at the coveted B.C. RTNDA awards in Kamloops.
Our B.C. newsroom won in four categories, including the Bert Cannings Award for best newscast on July 24, 2007 -- the day a massive oil pipeline rupture coated homes in Burnaby.
CTV also won the Charlie Edwards Award for best spot news for our extensive coverage of a plane crash in Richmond last fall, where a Piper Seneca slammed into an apartment building, leaving a gaping hole.
Best investigative reporting -- the Dan McArthur Award -- went to Peter Grainger for his coverage of the Taser death of Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport last fall.
Our continuing coverage of pre-sales in the real estate industry, with Shannon Paterson, received an honourable mention in the Ron Laidlaw Award.
And Brent Gilbert's "Princess Spy" -- a moving story about a symphony written by an aging compose for his sister, a spy who was killed by the Nazis -- won best feature.
The RTNDA stands for the Radio and Television News Directors Association, and is the world's largest professional organization devoted exclusively to electronic journalism.
The RTNDA represents broadcasters in cable and other electronic media in more than 30 countries.
The association also gives out the Edward R. Murrow awards for outstanding achievements in electronic media. CTV British Columbia took home three of those awards when they were announced in early April.
