By the USU journalism and communication department

LOGAN -- Utah State University TV journalism students have won three awards in regional competition sponsored by the National Broadcasting Society, including one first place.

Nine USU students and two faculty members from the USU Journalism and Communication Department attended the NBS-AERho regional conference Saturday at Weber State University, along with representatives of colleges across the West, from Arizona to British Columbia.

USU students Mike Chidsey and Claire Dunn won first place in the 13-state region in the comedy video category, for a segment on Jell-O wrestling that aired on A-TV News, the USU campus cable news program produced in the journalism department. Chidsey and Dunnıs entry goes on to national competition.

A-TV News itself won third place in the region for news programs produced by broadcast news classes. And in its very first program ever, the new Kickinı Aggie Sports Show and its student producer Michelle Weston won second place in the region for best sports show. Kickinı Aggie Sports Show was launched in late September.

Broadcast Journalism Professor Penny Byrne said she was very pleased with the showing of her students, even though she had learned of the contest only three days before the entry deadline.

³It was a scramble, but we know how to perform well on deadline,² Byrne said. ³These kids work hard and deliver quality programming every week. Weıll do even better next year.²

The students write, report, shoot and produce two editions of the 30-minute A-TV News program each week, covering the USU campus and the Cache Valley community. The new sports show, which focuses on USU athletics, airs weekly. Byrne said that the contest required students to enter their first-ever Aggie Sports Show in the sports category, and that subsequent editions have improved sharply from that award-winning entry.

Region Seven of the National broadcasting Society has chapters in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Texas, plus Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.

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