The International Collegiate Broadcasting System has just announced the finalists for its 2015 Awards Competition. Three of the finalists contributed stories to WMOT that have been announced as finalists in the IBS competition. Each of them is an Electronic Media Communication Department student in the Middle Tennessee College of Mass Communication. John Sloss is up for Best Newscast, Emily Kinzer for Best News Feature Story " Therapy Services" and Chris Davis for Best Spot News "Kidnapping in West Town."
This year's competition has a different twist, according to IBS President Chris Thomas. "This year we received more than four times the number of the entries from last year! The first round of judging is complete and the finalists for each category have been selected.
New for 2015, instead of naming the top five entries as finalists, entries that were among the top 10% of all submissions we received were named finalists in their categories. As a result, several categories have more than five finalists (and some have less)."
Thomas went on to write... " new this year we hand out two categories of trophies. Silver Microphones and Gold Microphones. The Golden Microphones will be awarded to the winner of each category and the four finalists. The Silver Microphones will be awarded to the remaining finalists in each category."
Also up for two Gold Microphones is Justin Reed, WMTS's Justin Reed Show. Justin was nominated in the "Best Live Music" category and "Best Celebrity Interview" categories. The Justin Reed Show won a Gold Microphone Award last year as well.
Each of these nominations will win either a Gold or Silver Microphone. WMOT congratulates all of our EMC Department students of the MTSU School of Mass Communication on their wins!