Created: 09/24/2009 1:53 PM KSTP.com | Print |  Email By: Melissa Sweeney

5 EYEWITNESS NEWS WINS NATIONAL EMMY AWARD FOR 35W BRIDGE COLLAPSE COVERAGE

Minneapolis/Saint Paul, MN – 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS, KSTP-TV has won the National Emmy Award for “Outstanding Regional News Story - Spot News” for their coverage of the 35W Bridge Collapse in 2007.  5 EYEWITNESS NEWS was the only Minnesota news outlet to be recognized with a National Emmy this year.  This is the first National Emmy Award 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has received. 

Lindsay Radford, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS News Director, said, “From our chopper pilot hovering over the scene for days; to reporters who called in during those first terrifying moments; to the photographers who showed us the heartache and shock that spread across so many faces - everyone at 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS worked extremely hard during those 25 hours of seamless coverage.”

Rob Hubbard, President and General Manager of KSTP said, “In a time of great tragedy, when Minnesotans were in need of up to the minute information, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS lead the coverage of this catastrophe not just by being first on the scene but by sticking with this story over the months of rebuilding not only a bridge, but the lives of so many Minnesotans.”
 
The 30th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards were presented by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences gala ceremony September 21, 2009 at Lincoln Center in New York City.  More than 800 media industry executives, journalists, and producers attended the event to honor outstanding achievement in television journalism.

5 EYEWITNESS NEWS (KSTP-TV, LLC), Minneapolis/St. Paul, is locally-owned and operated by Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc.  It was the first television station to sign on the air in the upper Midwest.  Other HBI television stations in Minnesota include: KSTC-TV, KSAX-TV, KRWF-TV, WDIO-TV, WIRT-TV and KAAL-TV.  Minneapolis/St. Paul HBI radio stations include: AM1500 KSTP, KS95-FM, FM107 WFMP, plus the Hubbard Radio Network.  HBI also owns two television stations in New York and one television station in New Mexico.  Hubbard Media Group, a division of HBI, owns and operates ReelzChannel, the national cable and satellite network that is all about movies.