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The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association announced the winners for the top local TV promos in the state for news image, weather, sports and topicals. Watch them here.

The winners of the 2023 Peabody Awards have been announced and PBS leads the pack with a total of six followed by Apple TV+ and Disney+ with three each and HBO Max with two.

Wednesday morning, April 19, in Las Vegas, the Broadcasters Foundation of America held its annual breakfast and gave out six Leadership Awards, the Lowry Mays Excellence in Broadcasting Award and the very special Chairman’s Award. Pictured (l-r): Steven Lanzano, President, Television Bureau of Advertising – Leadership Award; Deborah Parenti, President/Publisher, Radio Ink/RBR+TVBR – Leadership Award; Scott Herman, Chairman of the Broadcasters Foundation; Dan Mason, former CEO of CBS Radio and previous Chairman of the Broadcasters Foundation – Lowry Mays Excellence in Broadcasting Award; Tim McCarthy, President of the Broadcasters Foundation; Jim Doyle, Founder, JDA Media – Leadership Award; Debra O’Connell, President, Networks, The Walt Disney Company – Leadership Award; Cindy Thompson, who accepted the posthumous Chairman’s Award on behalf of her husband Jim Thompson, who had been president of the Broadcasters Foundation; Heidi Raphael, Chief Communications Officer, Beasley Media Group – Leadership Award; Jim Thompson, who also accepted on behalf of his father. Not pictured is Julie Talbot, president of Premier Networks, who accepted the posthumous Leadership Award on behalf of Rush Limbaugh.

60 Minutes was given the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation’s Insight Award at the NAB Show in Las Vegas April 17. Bill Owens, executive producer, was there to accept the award.

Anne Schelle is managing director of the Pearl TV consortium and recipient of TVNewsCheck’s Women in Technology Leadership Award, the publication’s highest honor. She earned it through her tenacity and faith in the ATSC 3.0 standard as broadcasting’s crucial way forward.

PBS landed eight nominations, the most of any outlet, as Peabody Awards Board of Jurors announced this year’s 27 nominees for its documentary and news categories. Among PBS series, Frontline landed four noms, the most of any program.

The award recognizes a program’s “iconic impact on both the media landscape and the public imagination.”

Bryant Gumbel’s career has spanned more than 50 years on NBC, CBS and HBO. He has hosted Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on HBO since 1995. It has received 36 Sports Emmys. “It’s very humbling. I’ve been a fortunate, lucky guy,” said Gumbel, who is the first Black journalist to receive the award. “It makes you stop and take stock. You take a look at the guys who I admire a great deal who received this award, people like Vin Scully, Jim McKay and Howard Cosell. You never want to put yourself in their company, but it’s heady stuff.”

The award will be presented at the Broadcasters Foundation Breakfast on April 19 during the NAB Show in Las Vegas.

Veep star Julia Louis-Dreyfus was among “23 extraordinary Americans,” as Biden described them, awarded honors Tuesday in a star-studded East Room gathering. Along with Louis-Dreyfus, Bruce Springsteen, José Feliciano, the “Empress of soul” Gladys Knight, Mindy Kaling, Antonio Martorell-Cardona, Judith Francisca Baca, Fred Eychaner, Joan Shigekawa and Vera Wang, along with organizations the Billie Holiday Theatre and the International Association of Blacks in Dance, received medals.

He will be presented with the Lowry Mays Excellence in Broadcasting Award at the Broadcasters Foundation Breakfast on April 19 During the NAB Show in Las Vegas.

The NBCUniversal Local executive will be honored at the Broadcasting Hall of Fame Ceremony during next month’s NAB Show in Las Vegas.

Douglas Lung and Michael Cooney to receive awards at April’s NAB Show in Las Vegas.

The awards will be presented at the Broadcasters Foundation Breakfast on Wednesday, April 19, during the NAB Show in Las Vegas.

The honor is given every year by the Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. King has been with CBS News since 2011. She is the 39th recipient of the award.

CNN and PBS took home two prizes apiece, headlining Monday’s duPont-Columbia Awards handed out by Columbia Journalism School. CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell and co-anchor of PBS NewsHour Amna Nawaz hosted the award ceremony, which returned to an in-person event for the first time in three years. Local TV honors went to KXAS Dallas-Fort Worth, WXIA Atlanta, WTVF Nashville, KARE Minneapolis and WBRZ Baton Rouge, La.

Anne Schelle, managing director of the Pearl TV consortium, will receive the highest honor in TVNewsCheck’s Women in Technology Awards for her tireless efforts to rally the broadcast industry around the ATSC 3.0 standard while convincing manufacturers to produce compatible sets. She’ll receive her award at the NAB Show in Las Vegas on April 18 at 6 p.m.

The annual gala supporting the charity work of the Broadcasters Foundation of America will be held Monday, March 6, at New York’s Plaza Hotel.

The Peabody Awards is moving out West. As it returns to its first in-person event since 2019, the Peabody Awards will take place in the Los Angeles area this year at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Sunday, June 11. This marks the first time the Peabodys have been held in Los Angeles, having previously been held in New York (and virtually during the pandemic).