Awards
Regional Edward R. Murrow Award - 2025
WAMC is proud to announce that it has picked up two Edward R. Murrow Awards for our work in 2024.
Excellence in Sound
Kevin Monahan sentenced to 25 years to life for the murder of Kaylin Gillis
News Documentary
Looking back on New Paltz's 'Winter of Love'
New York State Broadcasters Association - 2025
WAMC has won four New York State Broadcasters Association Excellence in Broadcasting Awards!
Spot News: A single report or series of local reports on a breaking or unplanned news event
'Conserve, conserve, conserve:' Village of Whitehall slow to recharge water tanks
https://www.wamc.org/news/2024-12-10/conserve-conserve-conserve-village-of-whitehall-slow-to-recharge-water-tanks
Sports coverage: Best single locally originated sports broadcast
NCAA regionals tip off in Albany as women's hoops takes center stage
Use of Audio: Best compelling station captured local audio judged on how it’s used to enhance presentation
Looking back on New Paltz's "Winter of Love"
https://www.wamc.org/show/51/2024-07-04/looking-back-on-new-paltzs-winter-of-love
Election coverage: Best in-depth coverage of a federal, state or local election
https://www.wamc.org/2025-01-31/2024-election-night-special-broadcast
Massachusetts Broadcasters Association “Sound Bites” Awards - 2024
WAMC is proud to announce that it has picked up three honors from the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association at its 2024 “Sound Bites” Awards.
First Place Award for Spot News Story: “It was just survival:” Miss Hall’s alumnae describe a decades-old campus culture of open student-faculty relationships, fear, and repression in wake of emerging sex scandal
Merit Award for Sports Feature: New challenge for Will Brown, Golden Knights in return to The College of Saint Rose
Merit Award for Feature Story: It’s all downhill: Montague Soapbox Races return to Turners Falls in Massachusetts
New York State Broadcasters Association - 2024
WAMC is proud to announce that it has won two awards in the annual New York State Broadcasters Association contest.
Outstanding Election Coverage: Election Night 2023
Outstanding Podcast: A New York Minute In History
Regional Edward R. Murrow Award - 2024
WAMC is proud to announce that it has won two Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards as part of the annual competition.
The first award is for Breaking News Coverage, for WAMC’s reporting on the 2023 floods that devastated Northeast communities in New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
The second award is for News Documentary for a piece that originally aired on Lucas Willard’s syndicated program “The Best of Our Knowledge.” The special feature about a high school steel drum band that began in the 1970s is called “The Story of 'Goin' Places' and the New York Novelty that Traveled the World.”
Massachusetts Broadcasters Association - 2023
WAMC has won a Massachusetts Broadcasters Association “Soundbites” Award.
Sports Feature: WAMQ-FM - Merit honor for UConn rolls to second round as NCAA men's tournament returns to Albany; Pitino's future unclear.
New York State Broadcasters Association - 2023
WAMC was honored in the 57th Annual Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting competition for Spot News, Sports Coverage, and Election Coverage, and partnered with The Adirondack Council for Serving New York recognition.
Outstanding Spot News Coverage: Shootout Rattles Saratoga Springs
Outstanding Sports Coverage: 2022 Meet Kicks off at Saratoga Race Course
Outstanding Election Coverage: NY-19 Special Election Features two County Executives
Regional Edward R. Murrow Award - 2023
WAMC received a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Podcast. The award honors “A New York Minute In History.”
Sound Bite Awards - 2022
WAMC has won two Sound Bites Awards from the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association: a merit honor for WAMC’s digital media presence, and also for feature story, "Documentary on Auschwitz survivor to be shown at The Linda."
Journalists Association of New York Broadcast Contest - 2022
WAMC has received a number of first- and second-place honors in the Journalists Association of New York 2022 Broadcast Contest. Awards were distributed at an October 15th ceremony in Saratoga Springs.
"We are so honored to receive these awards from JANY,” WAMC President and CEO Dr. Alan Chartock said. “This vital regional reporting and programming only exists because of our wonderful members and listeners who count on WAMC."
A New York Minute In History won first place for Best Podcast. It is a production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio, the New York State Museum and Archivist Media, with support from The William G. Pomeroy Foundation. The podcast is hosted by New York State Historian Devin Lander and Saratoga County Historian Lauren Roberts. It is produced by WAMC’s Jesse King and Jim Levulis.
In awarding A New York Minute In History, the JANY judges commented "Enjoyed listening to some New York history in these modern times."
A list of other JANY awards WAMC received include:
ART ATHENS GENERAL EXCELLENCE OF INDIVIDUAL REPORTING
Second place: Pat Bradley
DIGITAL PRESENCE
Second place: WAMC
INVESTIGATIVE & WATCHDOG REPORTING
First place: WAMC, "Strife Between Police Reform Activists, Local Governments, Local Police Grows"
NEWSCAST
First place: WAMC
NEWS SERIES
Second place: WAMC, "Keeping the Holiday Spirit Alive Through the Pandemic"
PODCAST
First place: Jesse King and Jim Levulis, WAMC, Albany, "A New York Minute in History"
PUBLIC SERVICE
First place: Jim Levulis, WAMC, "Meeting the Capital Region's Top Law Enforcement Figures"
Second place: WAMC, "Liberty Bell Alliance Caught up in Jan. 6 Siege, Local Outrage"
SPORTS COVERAGE
First place: Lucas Willard, "Fans Return for 2021 Saratoga Meet."
SPORTS FEATURE
First place: WAMC, "The Saga of the MLB Trivia Challenge, as Told by Tom Merritt and Bob Costas"
Second place: Ian Pickus, "Shen Baseball Coach Pulling for Anderson, Braves in World Series Battle with Houston"
SPOT NEWS COVERAGE
Second place: WAMC, "Cuomo Resignation"
USE OF SOUND
Second place: Lucas Willard, WAMC, "Counting Eels in the Hudson River Estuary"
WEATHERCAST
First place: Paul Caiano and Garett Argianas, WAMC
Regional Edward R. Murrow Award - 2022
WAMC received a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award in the category News Documentary for its Oral History of the Capitol Siege.
New York State Broadcasters Association - 2022
WAMC is the proud recipient of three Excellence in Broadcasting Awards in the 56th annual New York State Broadcasters Association contest.
Outstanding Election Coverage, for coverage of elections in Pittsfield and North Adams
Outstanding Live Local Coverage, for coverage of the summer standoff between demonstrators and Albany Police outside a downtown police station
Outstanding Podcast, for "A New York Minute in History."
New York State Broadcasters Association - 2021
Applying under the WAMQ banner, WAMC has won a Critical Coverage merit award for “station efforts to inform about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic” in the annual Massachusetts Broadcasters Association Sound Bites Awards. Watch video announcement.
WAMC has won three Excellence in Broadcasting Awards from the New York State Broadcasters Association. In the 55th annual competition, WAMC won in the following categories:
Outstanding Election Coverage: WAMC Election Coverage 2020
Outstanding Live Local Coverage: Albany Protesters Turn Dangerous
Outstanding Podcast: A New York Minute In History
Regional Edward R. Murrow Award - 2021
WAMC has won a Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Podcast for A New York Minute In History.
Massachusetts Broadcasters Association – 2020
WAMC has won a Massachusetts Broadcasters Association “Soundbites” Award.
Recurring Segment: WAMQ-FM - First-place honor for 2019 Housing Series
The New York State Associated Press Association - 2020
WAMC President and CEO Alan Chartock won the New York State Associated Press Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award
The Art Athens General Excellence of Individual Reporting award from the New York State Associated Press Association went to Brian Shields, who retired after three decades in the WAMC newsroom in December 2019.
First Place:
Spot News Coverage AP Award: Josh Landes, “Tragedy Hits Sheffield Family”
Weathercast: Paul Caiano and Garett Argianas, WAMC-FM, Albany.
Second Place:
Public Service AP Award: WAMC-FM, Albany, "Housing Series.”
Sports Coverage: Jesse King, WAMC-FM, Albany, "Play Ball: Vintage Teams Preserve Baseball History in New York."
Digital Presence AP Award: WAMC-FM
Regional Edward R. Murrow Award - 2020
WAMC News received a regional Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association for “Use of Sound” in 2020 in "Albany Symphony To Celebrate The Uncanny Theremin."
New York State Broadcasters Association - 2020
WAMC received an award in the New York State Broadcasters Association’s Excellence in Broadcasting competition for WAMC’s remote Roundtable broadcast: Outstanding Live On-Scene: Tanglewood, July 26, 2019.
Massachusetts Broadcasters Association - 2019
Awards were handed out to broadcast radio and television stations in nineteen categories at the Sound Bites Awards sponsored by the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association on Thursday, November 14 at the Framingham Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center.
Feature Story Radio Merit: WAMQ-FM – Final Frames For Pittsfield's Candle Lanes
New York State Broadcasters Association
Outstanding Spot News: North County Bureau Chief Pat Bradley won for covering the escape from Clinton Correctional Facility.
Outstanding Local Sporting Event: Ian Pickus won for Hooley’s Heroics Lift UAlbany To NCAAs.
Best Public Affairs Program or Series: The Capitol Connection
Best Spot News: “Maloney Declares Victory; Hayworth Does Not Concede”
Best Feature Story: “Preserving The Story of the American Juke Box”
Best Local Sporting Event: “UMass Basketball Player Joins Growing List of Openly Gay Athletes”
Best Local Commentary/Editorial: "Say It Ain't So, Jeter"
New York State Associated Press Awards
Best Newscast: Finalist for Midday Magazine, May 2015
Digital Presence: Finalist
Best Feature: Finalist, for "Café For Kids Aims To Fight Food Insecurity" by Jessica Bloustien Marshall
Best Continuing Coverage: WAMC was a finalist for Pat Bradley’s coverage of Escape From Clinton Correctional Facility.
For best public service, WAMC was a finalist for Pat Bradley’s coverage of Plattsburgh’s charter review process. First Place Award
For best sports feature, WAMC was a finalist for “It's ‘Turn 2’ For Jeter In Capital Region, Where He Played In 1994” by Ian Pickus. First Place Award
Best News Special/Documentary: "WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Infectious Disease Doctor John Bennett Robbins," Alan Chartock, David Guistina
"Joan Rivers: In Memoriam," Joe Donahue, Sarah LaDuke
Best News Series: "WAMC News Student Loan Series," Staff
Best Continuing News Coverage: "Jim Levulis - North Adams Regional Hospital Closes"
Oil Trains Threaten Albany, Depending Who You Ask," Dave Lucas
Best Feature: "Preserving The Story Of The American Jukebox," Lucas Willard
Best Sports Coverage: "Say It Ain't So, Jeter," Ian Pickus
Arts Athens General Exellence of Individual Reporting: Allison Dunne
General Exellence in Use of Medium: "Preserving the Story of the American Jukebox," Lucas Willard
"North Adams Goes Unsilent: Electronic Audio Experience Fills Streets," Jim Levulis
Communicator Awards
Award of Excellence: for on-air talent, Joe Donahue
Production/Sound Design: “Preserving the Story of the American Juke Box,” Lucas Willard
Production/Sound Design: “North Adams Goes Unsilent,” Jim Levulis
Mirror Awards Nomination
WAMC is a finalist in the category
Best Single Story - Radio, Television, Cable or Online Broadcast Media: "Local Media Question Pittsfield's Press Protocol" by Jim Levulis, a Syracuse graduate.