After receiving a record total of 16 Emmy nominations, the BallState Department of Telecommunications won five Emmys Saturday atthe Regional Emmy Awards show in Cleveland.
"Connections," a Ball State student-run television program,continued its domination of the best Student Program category bywinning for the fourth year in a row, as well as capturing the bestprofessional Magazine Format Program award - its first professionalcategory win ever.
"Our goal is to give students the opportunity to get real-worldexperience, especially in a job they want to do," said"Connections" producer Sarah Grote, a senior at Ball State.
The show that won the Emmys was taped in advance of its airing,but this year "Connections" is going back to its original style ofhaving live shows every week, Grote said.
"We want people to be more involved," Grote said. "It takesabout half as many people to run a taped show, so we wanted to goback to live to get more people involved because that is thepurpose of the show."
NewsLink Indiana, an immersion program at Ball State in whichstudents, faculty and professionals participate, won the TechnicalAchievement category for the creation of its newsroom.
The state-of-the-art newsroom was built by architecture studentsfrom Ball State in less than six months with a budget of only$35,000.
"We can try things out here that they aren't using yet in thereal world," Terry Heifetz, managing editor of NewsLink, said. "Ournewsroom has things that don't exist in most TV newsrooms rightnow."
Heifetz said the main goal of NewsLink is to educate studentsand do great work everyday, but the Emmy is a great award toearn.
"The beauty of the Emmy is that your peers recognize theexcellence that has happened," Heifetz said.
Senior Jaron Henrie-McCrea brought home his second Emmy in thebest professional Feature/Entertainment Segment category for hisvideo poem "Yak to Shaq."
"I can escape into my own world," Henire-McCrea said on themaking of his videos. "Reality isn't nearly as fun as what's goingon in my head."
Henrie-McCrea said winning the Emmy is a great resume builderthat could help him achieve his goal of attending New YorkUniversity for graduate school to become a director.
"It's really great to see people's reactions when they catch onto what you're dishing out," Henrie-McCrea said. "Seeing your hardwork up on the screen is really gratifying."
Juniors Kenneth Loechner and Anthony Kubek won an Emmy for bestPublic Service Announcement for their anti-smoking spot "FiguredYou Might Want to Know," which appeared on WIPB-TV.
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