(KNZA)--Honors are earned by KNZA Radio, Inc., as the winners of the annual Kansas Association of Broadcasters awards are announced.
That happened Monday, with Sports broadcaster Brandon Tadtman taking two first place awards, winning in the category of Complete Sportscast by a Local Station for the 2023 Super Bowl Sportscast. He and fellow sports broadcaster Jared Sleppy also earned the top spot for Station Website, earning that honor for mscsports.net. Jake Spalding, an owner in the KNZA Radio Station Group, took second place honors in the Commercial :60 Seconds or Less category, earning that honor for the station's Red Dirt Saturday Promo. Longtime station News Director, Brian Hagen, also earned an award for 2023, taking second place in the News Feature division for the feature news story "Broadcast's Buser Says Goodbye," in which the career of now-retired KNZA co-founder Greg Buser was highlighted.
The four awards were earned in the Small Market Radio Station Division, which recognizes excellence in those radio station markets that include counties with a Census population under 25,000.
All KAB award winners will be celebrated, and awards distributed, during a dinner ceremony as part of the KAB's Annual Convention planned for October 23 in Overland Park, Kansas.
Judging for 2023 was done by a panel of Alabama broadcasters, with excellence, creativity, believability, and effectivness all part of the criteria used for those chosen as winners.
The Kansas Association of Broadcasters provides representation, lobbying, education, and other services for both TV and Radio station in Kansas.
KNZA Radio Inc. owns and operates three FM radio stations in Kansas, KNZA, KMZA, and KAIR, as well as two stations in southeast Nebraska.
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