DETROIT, Jan. 16, 2025 ~ On Monday, the Michigan Affiliation of Broadcasters introduced the winners of its 2025 Broadcast Excellence Awards, with 760 WJR selecting up a number of awards.
The Broadcast Excellence Awards Gala will happen Saturday, April 5. The awards received by WJR are listed under:
Persevering with Protection
- Benefit: WJR-AM – New Starting Michigan Central Practice Station (WJR Employees)
- Greatest: WJR-AM – College Shooter’s Dad and mom Face Justice (WJR Employees)
Characteristic Programming
- Benefit: WJR-AM – Grief Monster: A Daughter’s Story (Kevin Dietz, Marie Osborne, Laura Hessen, Danielle Mason)
Characteristic Story
- Greatest: WJR-AM – Faucets The Last Honor (Marie Osborne)
Investigative Story
- Greatest: WJR-AM – Dying to Give Delivery (Marie Osborne)
Mini-Documentary or Sequence
- Benefit: WJR-AM – Detroit’s 2024 NFL Draft (WJR Employees)
- Greatest: WJR-AM – Healthwatch with Dick Haefner (Dick Haefner)
Morning Present Broadcast Character or Group
- Greatest: WJR-AM – ‘JR Morning with Man, Lloyd, and Jamie (Man Gordon, Lloyd Jackson, Jamie Edmonds, Nick Roddy)
OTT Content material
- Greatest: WJR-AM – MSU Pupil Journalism Program (Curtis Paul, Dominic Carroll, Nicholas Lundberg)
Play-By-Play Sports activities
- Benefit: WJR-AM – Drive to The Sport: De La Salle vs Davison (Chris Renwick, Nick Roddy, Ray Templin, Dave Riger)
Podcast Sequence
- Benefit: WJR-AM – ‘JR Morning 5 Issues First Factor (Man Gordon, Lloyd Jackson, Jamie Edmonds, Nick Roddy)
- Greatest: WJR-AM – Ken Brown and Mike O’Hara Podcast (Ken Brown, Nick Roddy, Mike O’Hara)
Particular Present Broadcast Character or Group
- Benefit: WJR-AM – Michigan Voices with Marie Osborne (Marie Osborne)
- Greatest: WJR-AM – SportsWrap NFL Draft Particular (Anthony Bellino, Lomas Brown, WJR Employees)
Sports activities Characteristic or Sequence
- Benefit: WJR-AM – Tigers Magical Playoff Run (WJR Employees)
- Greatest: WJR-AM – SportsWrap Lions Protection: Street to the One Seed (Anthony Bellino, Lomas Brown, WJR Employees)
Sportscast
- Benefit: WJR-AM – Tigers Clinch Wildcard Spot (Dave Riger, Jim Harper, Kam Carmen)
Station Promos
- Greatest: WJR-AM – Election Night time Sequence (Mark Blackwell, WJR Employees)
Business
- Finalist: WJR-AM – Missy and Mel’s (Mark Blackwell, Mike Wheeler, Blake Majchrzak, McCoy Kelly)
- Finalist: WJR-AM – Pet Gram (Sefe Puente, Mark Blackwell)
Digital Excellence
- Finalist: WJR-AM – Detroit’s Prime 5 Tales (Curtis Paul, Andrew Mullin, Nicholas Lundberg)
Recurrently Scheduled Broadcast Character or Group
- Finalist: WJR-AM – ‘JR Afternoon with Chris Renwick (Chris Renwick, Brian Morton, Danielle Mason, Wealthy Luzenski)
Newscast
- Finalist: WJR-AM – ‘JR Morning 5 Issues First Factor Day After Election (Man Gordon, Lloyd Jackson, Jamie Edmonds, Nick Roddy)
Neighborhood Involvement
- Finalist: WJR-AM – WJR Neighborhood Involvement (Mark Blackwell, Ron Smerigan, WJR Employees)
