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News Awards

A wall displaying several framed broadcasting awards, featuring a prominent brass plaque for the AP Grand Prize Steve Flanders Award given to WRVO.

WRVO has received scores of awards over the years in recognition of high achievement in news reporting and public affairs programming.  WRVO has received the prestigious Steve Flanders Award from the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association three times in recent history.  The Flanders award recognizes one station among all commercial and public radio stations in New York state for excellence as reflected in the number of first-place awards received overall in competition with other stations.

In 2020, WRVO's Payne Horning received a regional Edward R. Murrow award for his story "The legacy of Oswego's Safe Haven is its lessons," which was featured on Here and Now. WRVO has also received numerous awards from the Syracuse Press Club and the Associated Press Broadcasters Association of New York.

Recent highlights

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Ellen Abbott received a first-place award — Best Radio/Podcast Spot News — for her news story, "Local, state officials react to Micron's $100B investment in CNY."
Ava Pukatch smiling and holding two Syracuse Press Club award plaques.
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Ava Pukatch received first- and second-place awards for Best Radio/Podcast Human Interest Feature for "Lost Fort Ontario opera to be performed again more than 75 years later," and "'How to Dance in Ohio' makes world-premier in Syracuse, centers on autistic characters."

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