TV BOP

Congrats to WBFF & KUSA and all the individual winners!

See them here:

http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2012/03/bop_tv02.html

TV BOP Judges outside Carolina Coliseum at USC.

Mike Schuh, Darren Durlach, Dan Robbins (back row)

Shawn Montano, Matthew Apthorp, Merry Murray

After Shawn got stuck in Chicago for several hours yesterday, the editing judges are now getting started.  Follow us on Twitter to see where we are!

@NPPATVBOP

http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2012/03/bot_tv01.html

We’re wrapping up the night judging Documentary.  Editing will start in the morning due to an almost 4 hour delay for editing judge Shawn Montano.  But Shawn & Matthew will be fresh and ready to go in the morning!

The University of South Carolina is our wonderful host for this year’s TV BOP judging.

Meet the judges at:  http://www.nppa.org/news_and_events/news/2012/03/bop_tv_judging.html

Our plans for today in the Photography categories are to judge Reporter, Spot News, Documentary, & Small Mkt SOY.  The editing judges won’t get started until 8pm, so they will probably watch the Under Deadline categories (Spot & General) and possibly General News Simple Effects.

But things may change, so follow us on Twitter @NPPATVBOP

All finalists, results, & winning videos for each day will be up on the BOP site each night.

We’re all exciting to be here and get to watching your great stories!

Congrats to Small Market Station of the Year KCCI in Des Moines, IA. Runner up is a newcomer this year, KBAK Bakersfield, CA.
Medium Market Station of the Year goes to WAVY in Portsmouth, VA. Runner up is another newcomer, WITI in Milwaukee, WI.
Large Market Station of the Year goes to a station we haven’t heard from in awhile, KING in Seattle, WA. Runner up was WBFF in Baltimore, MD.

It’s been another great year for the TV BOP contest. Thanks to all who entered, supported us, and followed us. I will get the rest of the videos up this weekend and get the ones with the audio issues fixed soon.
-Merry

Hope to get up all the winning videos and fix the ones with audio issues over the weekend. Will post links here and on the winner’s pages once we have them. Thanks for your patience!
-Merry

Hopefully by now you saw the great story and huge surprise we gave Darren Durlach here at the Workshop this morning. I asked him to help me tell the winner that they won. Little did he know, it was me calling when his phone started vibrating! Best surprise ever!
Matt Mrozinski gave Darren a run for his money though. I can’t wait to see what Matt has for next year’s entry.

We’re still getting through the Station of the Year entries. Hope to have those out soon!
-Merry

Thanks to a borrowed computer, I’m back up and ready to post more winners. The POY and Reporter finalists are up! I’ll get Team and SVJ up soon. We’re finishing up Documentary and the 3 SOY’s today. We’ll be calling the POY winner here shortly. Have your phones on and ready!
-Merry

Judging has been going great today. A little slow, but that’s good when choosing a POY.
The bad news is, my computer died this afternoon. So, I won’t be able to post new videos or fix the bad audio ones right away.
We have finalists for POY that should be posted by the morning. Reporter finalists are out now on twitter @NPPATVBOP
Hoping to borrow a computer tomorrow to post Team, SVJ, & Doc winners.
Tomorrow we’ll wrap up by watching the SOY entries and announce the Reporter winner & Runner up along with the 3 new Stations of the Year and the new Ernie Crisp Photographer of the Year! Stay tuned!
-Merry

We skipped the Green Eggs & Ham this morning so we could get an early start working our way through the POY category. We’re about half way through now. The “Yes” pile is definitely bigger than the “No” pile. Going to be a hard decision again this year.
Reporter finalists should be up soon! There are 5 finalists. Check out the BOP page to see who made the cut!
-Merry