WSTO TV wins four awards at the Best of the Midwest Media Fest 2024.
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STOUGHTON, WI: WSTO TV wins four awards at the Best of the Midwest Media Fest 2024. Stoughton’s Community Media Center, WSTO TV won an Achievement Award and three Merit Awards in the regional competition open to community media centers in the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas. All of the programs that WSTO TV submitted won an award.
There are three levels of awards including Excellence, Achievement and Merit with around 25% of 179 total submissions not receiving any awards. WSTO TV is very proud of the awards received this year.
Achievement Award: WSTO TV’s lone Achievement Award went to Fresh Faces: Eat at Joe’s which was produced in February of 2023 and was the inaugural episode of the Fresh Faces series on WSTO TV. Fresh Faces is a program designed to introduce new businesses to the Stoughton Community.
Merit Awards: WSTO TV won three Merit Awards for the City of Stoughton Curbside Leaf Collection PSA, Discover Downtown Stoughton: Water Street Tavern, and Stoughton Merchants Baseball vs the Lake Mills Grays from 6/18/23.
“We are very proud of the content we produce for our viewers here in the City of Stoughton and it took a great deal of debate to narrow down the submissions to only four,” remarked Derek Westby, who oversees the staff of WSTO TV. “WSTO TV produced almost 200 programs for TV, Social Media and Internal use in 2023, many of which we considered submitting. We look forward to the quality of content we will be producing in 2024!”
WSTO TV Staff will be attending the Best of the Midwest Media Fest Banquet on May 16th, 2024 in Eau Claire to collect the awards.
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