PBS wins two NETA Awards

The PBS39 education team earned two National Educational Telecommunications Association awards at a ceremony recently in Washington, D.C.

The first award in the category of Engaged Learning was for “First Vote in a Polarized Age: Lafayette College Election Night Broadcast,” a special broadcast created through a partnership between Lafayette College in Easton and PBS39 in Bethlehem.

In the category of Locally Sourced Content, PBS39 won the award for “Wyomissing: An American Dream,” an original production documenting the history of a Berks County borough that knits together three themes; community, family and industry in the story of the borough’s founding fathers, Ferdinand Thun and Henry Janssen.

The NETA conference is a three-day annual event where public media organizations from around the country meet for a “Public Media Thought Leader Forum” presented by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The event includes guest speakers, a lineup of professional development sessions, receptions, and the NETA Awards. PBS39 was one of only seven public media organizations to win multiple awards at the ceremony.