Garden City High School Students Win KAB Awards

Garden City, KS(westernkansasnews.com) Students from the Garden City High School Buffalo Broadcasting System (BBS) – radio and television classes competed in the Kansas Association of Broadcasters (KAB) state awards competition and received a large number of awards. There were 45 awards given to the program with 15 state champions, 17 state runner-up awards, and 13 state Honorable Mention finishes.

The awards will be handed out at the Kansas Association of Broadcasters Student Seminar in Manhattan, Kansas on Tuesday, April 2nd. The KAB will give out 93 awards to the 17 high schools competing. GCHS won more awards than nearly every other high school combined.

The students produced their radio or television entries and submitted them to the association for judging.

The 2018 KAB award winners for GCHS in the television category are:
State Champion: Tyler Stutzman, Public Affairs Program: Staff and Crew of BBS-TV, Complete LIVE Newscast; Staff and Crew of BBS-TV, Sportscast; Tam Nguyen, Research Paper and Kirstin Neff, Promotion Activity.

State Runner-up: Katie Chandler, Public Affairs Program; Hunter Manley, Sports Play by Play; Oscar Fernandez, Documentary; Kirstin Neff, Research Paper; Tyler Stutzman, Promotion Activity.

Honorable Mention: Caden Strawder, Station Promotion Announcement; Katie Chandler, News Anchor; Delaney DeSpain, Documentary.

The 2018 KAB award winners for GCHS in the radio category are:
State Champion: Nancy Tran, 60 Second PSA; Miguel Soltero, Public Affairs Program; Deborah Medina, Daniel Enriquez, Brayden Bicket, Complete Newscast 3 Days/Week or less; Teo Rojas, Carlos Bluvan, Luis Hinojosa, Chris Gomez, Complete Newscast 4 Days/ Week or More; Chris Gomez, Hard News Package; Luz Andrea Fuentes, Enterprise News Package; Makinzy Weilert, Complete Sports Feature; Tyler Stutzman, Sportscast; Nancy Tran, Documentary; Victor Garcia and Isaiah Cruz, Entertainment Program.

State Runner-up: Luz Andrea Fuentes, Ruben Villatoro, 60 Second PSA; Tyler Stutzman, Station Promotion Announcement; Luz Andrea Fuentes, David Flores, Public Affairs Program; Julian Fuentes, Makinzy Weilert, Complete Newscast 3 Days/Week or less; Cameron Raburn, Makinzy Weilert, Julian Fuentes, Jose Gutierrez, Complete Newscast 4 Days/ Week or More; Jose Gutierrez, Hard News Package; Deborah Medina, Complete News Feature; Marcus Archuleta, Complete Sports Feature; Jacob Griffin, Sportscast; Cooper Thayer, DJ Personality; Austin Underwood and Isaiah Ramos, Sports Play-by-Play; ; Victor Garcia, Documentary.

Honorable Mention: J.J. Guymon, Public Affairs Program; Cameron Raburn, David Flores, Complete Newscast 3 Days/Week or less; Nancy Tran, Monica Aguirre, Joe Barrientos, Trystan Field, Complete Newscast 4 Days/ Week or More; Nancy Tran, Hard News Package; J.J. Guymon, Enterprise News Package; Deborah Medina, Complete Sports Feature; Deborah Medina, Daniel Estrada, James Cisneros, Priscilla Salazar, Sportscast; Hunter Manley and Dade Horney, DJ Personality; Cooper Thayer, Sports Play-by-Play; Alfred Ortiz, Francisco Muriel, Entertainment Program.

Jesse A. Bernal is the television and radio instructor for Garden City High School.