Granite Mike Awards: NH TV and radio broadcasters honored

MANCHESTER, NH — This year, New Hampshire broadcasters gave us award-winning coverage of a Manchester hotel standoff and a tragic fatal accident in the North Country. There were fun features by Fritz and creative ads by radio and television production crews. These are just some of the recipients of the 2019 Granite Mike Awards, presented Oct. 17 at the Executive Court Banquet Facility.

Kim Ashley, radio host for WGXL, and WMUR TV’s Fritz Wetherbee received the radio and television Air Personality awards. WZID’s NH in the Morning with Neal and Marga won First Place in the Morning Show Team category. Individuals and stations submitted 231 entries in 20 categories. The work was judged by the Alaska Broadcasters Association. WMUR TV and WLKZ-FM were named the television and radio Stations of the Year respectively.

NHAB presented the 2019 Broadcaster of the Year award to WMUR News Director Alisha McDevitt, who has spent her entire professional broadcast career with the state’s largest TV station.  Alisha started as an intern from the University of New Hampshire and was hired by the station in 1995.  She worked her way through the ranks from producer to the top job in the newsroom, where she has served with distinction for a decade.

The list of winners follows:

Radio

MERIT  WKBK

FIRST – WTSN

Television

MERIT – WMUR-TV 

FIRST – WMUR-TV 

Radio

MERIT  WMWV/WVMJ 

FIRST – WBNH-LP 

Television

MERIT – WMUR-TV – Manchester Hotel Standoff

FIRST – WMUR-TV – Randolph Motorcycle crash

Radio

MERIT-  NH Public Radio –  The State of the Free State

FIRST –  NH Public Radio – Rural Doctor Surrenders License

Television

MERIT – WMUR-TV – DCYF Library Visitations

FIRST – WMUR-TV – NH Chronicle: River Dave

Television

MERIT – WMUR-TV – NH Chronicle – Little Davey and the Rolling 88s

FIRST – NHPBS – Windows to the Wild- Hiking for Hunger

Radio

MERIT – WZID-  Morning News

FIRST – WTSN – Sports Report with Mike Pomp

Television

MERIT –WMUR-TV – News 9 Tonight

FIRST – WMUR-TV – News 9 Tonight

Radio

MERIT –WBNH-LP

FIRST – WTSV

Television

Merit – WYCU

FIRST – WYCU 

Radio

FIRST – WZEI

Television

MERIT – WMUR-TV 

FIRST – WMUR-TV 

Radio

MERIT –  Mike Haze -WFNQ

FIRST – Kim Ashley- WGXL

Television

MERIT

WMUR-TV – Chronicle – Erin Fehlau

FIRST – WMUR-TV – Chronicle – Fritz Wetherbee

Radio

MERIT -WJYY – Nazzy and Tara and the Morning Wake UP

FIRST –  WZID – Neal and Marga, NH in the Morning

Radio

MERIT – WERZ

FIRST – WLKZ

Television

MERIT – WMUR-TV 

FIRST – WMUR-TV 

Radio

MERIT – WNTK 

FIRST –WFNQ 

Television

MERIT – WMUR

FIRST – WMUR

Radio

MERIT – WGIR

FIRST – WFNQ

Television

FIRST –  WMUR -TV