Three stories you saw on CTV British Columbia have won the station three distinguished awards for outstanding achievements in electronic media.
Stories brought to you by CTV Reporters Lisa Rossington, Brent Gilbert, and sports anchor Perry Solkowski each garnered an Edward R. Murrow Award for in the television category in the international region.
Lisa Rossington won in the News Series category for her series "To Catch a Cab," where in series of stings she showed how Vancouver's taxis were systematically refusing fares and breaking their own codes of conduct.
The award for best Sports Reporting was for "Baseball Signals," a touching piece about a deaf baseball player by Perry Solkowski.
And reporter Brent Gilbert was given the best Feature Reporting award for his work on "Princess Spy," a story about a symphony written by an aging composer to his sister, a spy who was killed by the Nazis in the Second World War.
The stories now move on to New York to compete against all stations in the Radio-Television News Directors Association, with the prizes expected to be announced in October.
The awards were named after Murrow, who is considered one of TV journalism's greatest figures.
The RTNDA is the world's largest professional organization devoted exclusively to electronic journalism, representing broadcasters in cable and other electronic media in more than 30 countries.
The Edward R. Murrow Awards have been honouring journalists since 1971.
CTV B.C. wins big at the RTNDA awards
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.
