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980 CJME has been recognized on the national stage after winning an award at the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) awards ceremony.
Our team won the Best Local Radio Newscast in Canada during the RTDNA national conference and awards gala in Toronto.
The newscast beat entries from radio stations in Halifax, Kitchener-Waterloo and Victoria.
Provincial news director Sarah Mills was at the event to accept the award.
980 CJME won a Radio Television Digital News Association award for Best Local Radio Newscast in Canada during the RTDNA national conference and awards gala in Toronto. (Sarah Mills/980 CJME)
The newscast was from the morning news the day after Myles Sanderson was captured. Sanderson killed 11 people and injured 18 others during a mass stabbing attack on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon in early September of 2022.
The award-winning newscast was a massive team effort anchored by Kevin Martel, with eyewitnesses at the moment of Sanderson’s arrest, and reporters at the scene, at a hospital in Saskatoon and at vigils in Regina and Prince Albert.
The newscast was a culmination of five hours of live coverage and included the RCMP news conference the night of the capture that 980 CJME carried live.
Earlier this year, our sister station, 650 CKOM, won Best Feature News in the prairie region for Libby Giesbrecht’s exploration of Saskatoon’s only Indigenous language school.
Between our two stations, this is the fifth time in the last eight years that News Talk Radio has been honoured as the best radio newscast in the country.