IPR honored with Spectrum Award

The Indiana Broadcasters Association has honored Indiana Public Radio’s 2008 reenactment of the ‘panic broadcast’ of War of the Worlds with a Spectrum Award in the Special Interest and Cultural Programming category.

The Spectrum Awards recognizes broadcast excellence for outstanding achievement in broadcasting by Indiana radio and television stations. The competition is established to encourage the highest standards of reporting, community service and production creativity. It brings the ultimate prize of peer recognition to members of the broadcast industry of Indiana.

Upon news of the award, General Manager Marcus Jackman congratulated those involved with the production: graduate student Brian Boswell and Ball State professor Nancy Carlson for conceiving of the idea; Boswell for casting and directing the show; technical advisors Brian Eckstein and Rob Mittendorf; Dr. Joe Misiewicz and Dean Roger Lavery from the Department of Telecommunications; Matthew Hooper and his orchestra; underwriting advisor Jan Miller; marketing manager Angie Rapp; graphic artist Heather Fullenkamp; and last but not least, lead actor Jim Needham and members of the cast.