{"id":17284,"date":"2017-05-09T09:04:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T13:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=17284"},"modified":"2017-05-15T10:53:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T14:53:05","slug":"wutc-wins-award-memorial-day-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/wutc-wins-award-memorial-day-broadcast\/","title":{"rendered":"WUTC wins award for Memorial Day broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WUTC-FM 88.1 earned second place at the Golden Press Card Awards for the station\u2019s 2016 Operation Song Memorial Day special broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Press Card Awards are presented by the East Tennessee Society of Professional Journalists to honor excellence in reporting by newspapers, radio, television, and other media in the region.<\/p>\n<p>WUTC\u2019s award was in the Documentary\/Public Affairs Programming \u2013 Radio division. Staff members who contributed to the Operation Song Memorial Day special were Mike Miller, Mary Ollie Newman, and Dr. Richard Winham.<\/p>\n<p>Operation Song is a Nashville-based nonprofit established in 2012 that uses songwriting as therapy to help veterans, active-duty military, and their families to share their stories musically by pairing them with professional songwriters.<\/p>\n<p>The music therapy outreach program began working with veterans in the studios of WUTC \u2014 he public radio station on the University of Tennessee Chattanooga campus \u2014 early in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>At the invitation of American Forces Network (AFN) radio, WUTC produced a 2016 Memorial Day program featuring segments from Operation Song. The special aired on Memorial Day over AFN to active-duty military and their families worldwide and can be heard online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wutc.org\/programs\/operation-song#stream\/0\">WUTC.org.<\/a>\u00a0It marked the first international broadcast of a WUTC-produced radio documentary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a tremendous honor that the Operation Song special was chosen as one of the best radio documentaries in the region,\u201d said Mike Miller, news director for WUTC.<\/p>\n<p>Winham said the Operation Song pieces were among the most outstanding ones produced by the station last year, and creating the pieces had a profound effect on the participants, listeners, and the producers themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand what they (the former soldiers) meant when they said \u2018sacrifice\u2019 in a way I hadn\u2019t before,\u201d Winham said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WUTC-FM 88.1 earned second place at the Golden Press Card Awards for the station\u2019s 2016 Operation Song Memorial Day special broadcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/wutc-wins-award-memorial-day-broadcast\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1105,"featured_media":9760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[48396,48398,48397,48082,48399],"class_list":{"0":"post-17284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wutc","8":"tag-golden-press-card-awards","9":"tag-mary-ollie-newman","10":"tag-mike-miller","11":"tag-operation-song","12":"tag-richard-winham","13":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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