Loras College Television is Awarded Television Station of the Year for the Fourth Consecutive Year

Loras College Television (LCTV) was awarded the title of Television Station of the Year by the Iowa College Media Association (ICMA) for the fourth consecutive year at the ICMA Convention in Des Moines, Iowa.  

In addition, LCTV News was awarded 1^st Place in the Best Newscast category.   LCTV and The Lorian’s converged news website, Myduhawk.com, was named Best Multimedia Online Edition.  

The ICMA is an organization comprised of Iowa college and university student media organizations, such as student newspapers, radio stations and television stations. Its goal is to advance the knowledge of student media producers by allowing them to interact with media professionals. 

Alli Ellwood (’14) (Des Plaines, Ill.) and Francesca Mosca (’14) (Plainfield, Ill.) shared their experience after being awarded first place for Best Promo/Commercial.  “We wanted to complete a project that would benefit Loras in some way, so we concentrated our commercial on the bookstore.  We won praise from the judges at the ICMA conference for our choice to use a cheerleader as our lead talent. The commercial took a total of two weeks to complete and was worth the time investment. It was exciting to be able to show our commercial to a room of students and professors from other universities, and professionals in our industry, and receive such a positive response. We won first place in our class competition alongside our first place honors at ICMA.”

Loras’ students who also took home individual awards:

Best News Story (Storytelling)	2nd Place	Field of Dreams – Katlyn Gerken (‘13) (Batavia, Ill.), Lauren DeWitt (’13)(Barrington, Ill.)
	3rd Place	Adventure Therapy – Charles Warren (’14) (Rockford, Ill.)
Best Sportscasting	2nd Place	Loras vs. Wartburg Men’s Football – LCTV Live Sports Crew
	Honorable Mention	Loras vs. Wheaton Men’s Soccer – LCTV Live Sports Crew
Best News Programming	2nd  Place	The Rivalry – Jim Naprstek (’13) (Plainfield, Ill.)
	3rd Place	LCTV Live from AWC – LCTV Staff
	Honorable Mention	Election 2011 – LCTV Staff
Best Documentary (short)	1st Place	Manasseh – Lauren DeWitt (‘13), Jacob Spiekermeier (’12) (Robins, Iowa)
	2nd Place	Bentley – Ashley Rouse (’13) (Yorkville, Ill.), Molly Devine (’13) (Shorewood, Ill.)
	3rd Place	Dream of Bombfire – Connor Stickney (’14) (Barrington,Ill.)
Best Variety, Music, Comedy	2nd Place	– Late Night Loras – Tayler Hinesley (’15) (Middleton, Iowa), Dalton Graham (’15) (Mount Horeb, Wis.), Brian Cullen (’15) (Cary, Ill.)
	3rd Place	EP & PE  - Eric Osborn (’13) Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Paul Deeter (’13) (Milwaukee, Wis.)
	Honorable Mention	The Morning Du - Mary Agnoli (’15) (Davenport, Iowa), Matt Resnick (’15) (Dubuque, Iowa)
Best Promo/Commercial/PSA	1st  Place	Loras Bookstore – Alli Ellwood (’14), Francesca Mosca (’14)
	2nd Place	Opening Door Dash  - Felicia Carner (‘12) (Dubuque, Iowa)
	3rd Place	Powerade Thirst is Annoying – Eric Osborn (’13), Jake Roth (’13) (Dubuque, Iowa)
Best Experimental Video	1st  Place	Flower Girl – Matt Resnick (‘15), Carolyn Earner (’15) (Oak Lawn, Ill.)
	2nd Place	Running – Alli Ellwood (’14), Francesca Mosca (’14)
	3rd Place	Searching for More – Connor Stickney (’14)
Best Short Film	1st  Place	The Divine Comedy – Ted Wittman (‘13) (Dubuque, Iowa)
	2nd Place	Aafreen – Rajendra Thakurathi (’12) (Mahendranagar, Nepal), Jacob Spiekermeier (’12), Michael Harlovic (’12) (Lemont, Ill.)
	3rd Place	I Do – Julie Van Dyn Hoven (’14) (Freedom, Wis.), Zach Altfillisch (’14) (Galena, Ill.), Jacob Spiekermeier (’12), Devin Gackle (’15) (Lake Ville, Ill.), Michael Gelsinon (’14) (Chicago, Ill.)
	Honorable Mention	Alone  – Jake Roth (’13), Lauren DeWitt (’13), Ted Wittman (’13), Morgan Heim (’15) (New Albin, Iowa)
Best Corporate Video	3rd  Place	Quest for Ansors – Felicia Carner (‘12), Michael Lawrence (’12) (Anamosa, Iowa)
Best Online Video	3rd Place	Take 5 Webcast  - Mareah Adolphs (’15) (Miles, Iowa), Samantha Cihak (’15) (Naperville, Ill.)
Best Online Breaking Story	Honorable Mention	Dubuque Stabbing – Lauren DeWitt (’13)
Best Use of Social Media	2nd Place	Myduhawk.com