WBHM Wins Seven Alabama AP Awards

| August 5, 2015 

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WBHM 90.3 FM/WSGN 91.5 FM has won a total of seven 2015 Alabama Associated Press awards and received seven honorable mentions. The awards were given for work broadcast between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2014.

Contributors included team members Dan Carsen, Sarah Delia, Scott Hanley, Michael Krall, Rachel Osier Lindley, Larry Lee, Les Lovoy and Andrew Yeager.

 

WBHM won awards for:

This is just the latest group of awards WBHM has received in 2015. Earlier this year, WBHM won seven 2015 Edward R. Murrow Awards. The Murrow Awards are presented by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA).

 

 

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