And the Award Goes To…

    ST. LOUIS, MO – The Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) awarded the 38th Annual Mid-America Emmy Awards Saturday night in the Grand Hall of the Kansas City Convention Center.

    The Higher Education Channel (HEC-TV) is proud and honored to bring home a total of five Emmy Awards for the 2014 year.“The HEC-TV team is pleased and humbled to be so grandly recognized by our peers for the excellence of our work and our contributions to our community ” HEC-TV Director Dennis Riggs said.

    Please help us in congratulating our hard working and talented reporters, editors, directors, writers and producers:

    Emmy for Interview/Discussion
    Becoming a Writer: Khaled Hosseini
    Angie Weidinger – Freelance Reporter, Producer, Host
    Julie Winkle – Producer
    Peter Foggy – Videographer, Editor

    Emmy for Historical Documentary
    Something in the Water
    Kathy Bratkowski – Executive Producer
    Alex Fees – Reporter/ Producer
    Madeline Dames – Producer
    Jacqui Poor – Producer
    Barry Bruns – Editor

    Emmy for Historical/Cultural Program Feature
    Al Hirschfeld: The Boy Next Door
    Madeline Dames – Producer
    David Bryant – Editor

    Emmy for Public/Current/Community Affairs Feature
    A Bridge to the Future
    Jacqui Poor – Producer/Writer/Director
    Peter Foggy – Videographer/Editor
    ​(Special thanks to SPOT Media Production Group’s photographer, Cecil Corbett, Helicopter footage courtesy of KTVI Fox 2)

    Emmy for Program Editor
    Pokey LaFarge: Just a Plain Ole Midwestern Boy
    Barry Bruns

    HEC-TV also congratulates each of the 2014 Emmy Award winners from the Mid-American Chapter, which includes markets primarily in Missouri, Arkansas, and Illinois and surrounding DMAs: St. Louis, Kansas City, Little Rock, Springfield (MO), St. Joseph, Columbia-Jefferson City, Joplin-Pittsburg, Quincy-Hannibal-KeokukOttumwa– Kirksville, Davenport-Rock Island-Moline. Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg, Champaign-Springfield-Decatur, Fort Smith-Fayettville-Springdale-Rogers, Jonesboro, Monroe-Eldorado and Shreveport (LA). ​

    For the complete list of the Mid-America Emmy Award winners from all markets, click here.

    Email HEC-TV marketing director Christina Chastain at christina@hectv.org for any additional questions.