Southern California's Golden Mike Awards Handed Out

Golden Mikes

The RADIO & TELEVISION NEWS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA handed out its 69th annual GOLDEN MIKE AWARDS SATURDAY night (1/19) in LOS ANGELES. Lifetime Achievement Awards were given to KTLA (TV)/LOS ANGELES reporter GAYLE ANDERSON, iHEARTMEDIA/DODGERS Sports KLAC-A (AM 570 LA SPORTS)/LOS ANGELES sports anchor VIC "THE BRICK" JACOBS, and SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO news-Talk KPCC/PASADENA-LOS ANGELES "AIR TALK" host LARRY MANTLE.

Radio winners included:

• Best News Broadcast Over 15 Minutes: Div. A: ENTERCOM News KNX-A/LOS ANGELES, "KNX Midday News"
• Best News Broadcast Under 15 Minutes: Div. A: iHEARTMEDIA News-Talk KFI-A/LOS ANGELES, "4 PM News on KFI"; Div. B: CUMULUS News-Talk KABC-A/LOS ANGELES, "KABC News at 7:30 AM"
• Best Traffic Report: Div. A: KNX, "Traffic on the 5s"; Div. B: KABC, "KABC Traffic with BILL THOMAS"
• Best Individual Writing: Div. A: KPCC, "One Month after LAS VEGAS Shooting, New Reality Sets in for SOCAL Family"; Div. B: CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY News-Talk KCLU-A-F/SANTA BARBARA-THOUSAND OAKS, "A New Shot at Life"
• Best Sports Reporting: Div. A: KFI, "UCLA 3 Saga"; Div. B: KLAC, "A Whirlwind Year for KIKE HERNANDEZ and PUERTO RICO"
• Best Continuing Coverage: Div. A: KFI, "Thomas Fire/MONTECITO Debris Flow"; Div. B: KCLU, "The Twin Disasters: The Thomas Fire and MONTECITO Debris Flow"
• Best 'Live' Coverage of a News Story: Div. A: KNX, "SOCAL Fires"; Div. B: KCLU, "The Inferno"
• Best News Public Affairs Program: Div. A: KNX, "KNX In-depth: 9/11 - A World Turned Upside Down"; Div. B: WHITE ASH BROADCASTING News-Talk KVPR (VALLEY PUBLIC RADIO)/FRESNO, "VALLEY Edition - FEBRUARY 6, 2018" "
• Best News Reporting: Div. A: SANTA MONICA COLLEGE Triple A KCRW/SANTA MONICA,    "1,500 miles from home: CALIFORNIA Prisoners in MISSISSIPPI"; Div. B: RADIO BILINGUE Spanish Variety KSJV (RADIO BILINGUE)/FRESNO, "A Un Ano del Devastador Huracan Harvey, Familias latinas Se Recuperan por Cuenta Propia"
• Best News Reporting by a Radio Network or Content Syndicator: WESTWOOD ONE NEWS, "LAS VEGAS OCTOBER 1 Shooting: 1 Year Later"
• Best Hard News Series Reporting: KCRW, "Motel Living"
• Best Feature News Series Reporting: iHEARTMEDIA News-Talk KOGO-A/SAN DIEGO, 'Shattered in 1968: SAN DIEGO Remembers'"
• Best Investigative Reporting: Div. A: KPCC, "Rats, Roaches, Bedbugs, Mold: Why Thousands of LA's Homeless Shelter Beds Sit Empty Each Night"; Div. B: KVPR, "The FRESNO Detention Facility ICE Doesn't Want You to Know About"
• Best Serious Feature Reporting -- One Minute or Longer" KCRW, "ROBERT F. KENNEDY and CALIFORNIA's Farm Labor Movement"
• Best Serious Feature Reporting -- Shorter than One Minute: KFI, "Olvera Street Merchants"
• Best Light Feature Reporting -- One Minute or Longer: KPCC, "The Truth about Peeing in the Pool"
• Best Light Feature Reporting -- Shorter than One Minute: MORONGO BASIN BROADCASTING CORP. Hot AC KCDZ (Z107.7)/TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA, "Local Firefighters Pitch in for YUCCA VALLEY's Miracle League"
• Best Entertainment Reporting: Div. A: KPCC, "Writer and Musician OUR LADY J Preaches the Gospel of DOLLY PARTON"; Div. B: KCLU, "The Violin Master"
• Best Business and Consumer Reporting: Div. A: KFI, "Tourism is Down in LAS VEGAS"
• Best Government and Political Reporting: Div. A: KCRW, "Should Homeless Housing Cost Half-a-Million Dollars a Unit?"; Div. B: KCLU, "Kids Help a VENTURA COUNTY Government Agency"
• Best Medical and Science Reporting: Div. A: KPCC, "Cracking Down on Warehouses to Stem Pollution from Trucks - Will it Work?"; Div. B: KCLU, "Scientific Invention to Save Sea Turtles from Extinction"
• Best Use of Sound: Div. A: KFI, "Caravan from CENTRAL AMERICA Arrives at US Border"; Div. B: KCLU, "Improv at the Zoo"
• Best Internet News Reporting: Div. A: KFI, "ANTHONY BOURDAIN Remembered"

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