This past weekend in New York City, the 79th Intercollegiate Broadcast System International Media Conference and Awards was held. The annual IBS New York City Conference is focused on New Trends in High School/College Radio/TV/Webcasting!
The conference was located at Hotel Pennsylvania, across from Madison Square Gardens and Penn Station and featured over 150 speakers, over 100 schools and 1,000 attendees from all over the world! This year, IBS received five times the number of entries from last year. It is the largest IBS conference of the year and part of the IBS 2018-2019 coast-to-coast conference series!
The IBS Trophy Awards honored excellence in programming, air personalities, public service efforts, and outstanding stations both in high school and college radio and television. The 2019 winners were announced and trophies presented to all finalists and winners. IBS presented IBS Golden Microphone Trophies to winners/finalists during the finale of the conference.
This is the fifth year in which LJH Digital Storm students at Lincoln Junior High have been named as finalists in the media competition. This year, 13 Storm Radio and Storm TV student groups were announced as finalists in the high school division, representing the top 5 percent in each of the high school categories. LJH Digital Storm students received an impressive 4 National Winner trophies and 9 National Finalist trophies. You can view and listen to all winner and finalist submissions at (www.LJHDigitalstorm.com)
NATIONAL WINNERS:
Taya Wagner and Meg Robinson – Best Newscast- featuring Lindsay Stone from WNDU .
Cooper VanDreissche- Best Variety Program- Minute to Winute with guest Lindsay Stone .
Gavin Ruiz– Best Use of Graphics- Storm TV Outro .
Storm TV Staff– for Best Use of YouTube-
Additionally, the following students were awarded finalist trophies in their categories:
Best Radio Commercial Spot- Taya Wagner & Meg Robinson- Sugar Shack –
Best Event Promo- Radio- Brighton Bird, Kyan Schroeder, and Hope Frendendall- Yearbook Sale Promo –
Best Newscast- Connor Schmeidlin– Intro Newscast with Lindsay Stone .
Best News Report- Dafne Arriaga & Cameron Slyh– Nook Nite at the Plymouth Public Library-
Best News Report- Connor Schmeidlin & Dafne Arriaga– LJH Tailgate Party-
Best Program Promotion- Gavin Ruiz- Storm TV –
Best Specialty Show- Radio- Blake Hedger and Franklin Paguada (PHS)– Film Festival-
Best Community Volunteer Program/Personality- Cooper VanDreissche, Jack Newcomb, and Noble Bockman– Football Play-by-Play with Rusty Nixon- LINK
Best Commercial Spot- Radio- Franklin Paguada & Trevor Petzke (both PHS)– La D’Zert Cafe- (former LJH students)LINK
