Access Tucson Wins WAVE Award!
Posted October 27th, 2009 by vikkid in Front Page, News, What's on TVAccess Tucson won in the community event category for professionals for Railroad Day Celebration.
Produced for the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum, Railroad Day Celebration crosscuts between a community reenactment of the train’s first 1880 arrival in Tucson and an entertaining tour of the museum by W.D. Kalt III, author of Tucson was a Railroad Town: the Days of Steam in the Big Burg on the Main Line.
W.D. Kalt III
Community Player Emma Bull as a Victorian Lady
Featured at the celebration was the music of the 4th U.S. Cavalry Regiment Band as reenacted by the Old Arizona Brass Band, a host of community players, author Dave Devine, poet Richard Tavener, today’s Mayor Robert Walkup as yesterday’s Mayor Leatherwood as well as the presentation of the Historic Silver Spike.
Mayor Robert Walkup reenacting Mayor Leatherwood
Special encores of the Railroad Day Celebration will cablecast during the month of November. Saturdays at 3pm and Tuesdays at 9pm on Access Tucson channel 74 (Comcast) / 99 (Cox)
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And import program Outlook Video also won three WAVE awards, one in the community event category for community producers and two in the magazine category for community producers. One of the programs in the magazine category featured a story about LGBT Pride in Tucson.
Locally sponsored by member Steve Luesse, Outlook Video is a Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) monthly program filled with stories from all over the country.
Catch this show Sundays at 8pm on Access Tucson channel 72 (Comcast) / 120 (Cox) and Thursdays at 5pm on Access Tucson channel 73 (Comcast) / 98 (Cox).
The WAVE (Western Access Video Excellence) Awards were created in 1988 to recognize and promote the best in local community programming produced in the Western region of the Alliance for Community Media (ACM). The Western region includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada and New Mexico.
Winners were announced at the Annual Western Regional Conference hosted by Sierra Nevada Community Access Television (SNCAT) in Reno, Nevada on Saturday October 17.