The Marconi Awards are probably the most prestigious awards givin out to the radio industry, and one of Chicago's stations was recognized last night. Radio Ink has the details...
The winners of the 2013 NAB Marconi Radio Awards were announced Thursday night at the annual NAB Marconi Radio Awards Dinner & Show held at the Radio Show in Orlando. CBS' WBBM-AM in Chicago was named legendary station of the year, Premiere's Steve Harvey won for Syndicated Personality of the year and Jerry Lee's WBEB in Philadelphia won for major market station of the year.
The full list of winners is here, and includes a few more Chicago winners. Eric & Kathy were named major market personalities of the year (not the their first time winning it), and WTMX Radio was named as AC Station of the Year (also not their first time winning it). One of the things that the Marconi people consider is community involvement, and Eric & Kathy's (and WTMX's) fundraising on behalf of charities is really unmatched.
(By the way, the Eric & Kathy show will be featured in my next Illinois Entertainer article, due out on October 1st)
