The Lakeland, FL morning radio show received word last week
it won the Country Music Association Award for Broadcast Personality of the
Year for Medium Markets.
This is the second major award this year for hosts Roger
Todd, Tom O'Brien and Melissa Moran with special appearances by D.J. the
Trucker. They won the Academy of Country Music Award in the same category
earlier this year.
"We're still numb, we just can't believe it and it's
just so exciting and humbling at the same time," Toddtold Todd Reinstetle at theledger,com. "It's
just an honor to be chosen Broadcast Personality of the Year with the CMA and
we couldn't have done that without our listeners."
Todd, O'Brien and Moran will fly to Nashville to attend the
46th annual CMA Awards on Nov. 1. They will receive their award at an event
prior to the live broadcast on ABC.
The 97 Country Breakfast Club, airing on 97.5 FM WPCV from 5
to 10 a.m. weekdays, learned about the big win from this year's award show host
and country music star Brad Paisley. Paisley called in to the show personally
to congratulate the hosts.
Nominees for the Broadcast Personality of the Year Award are
judged in several categories including community service, an air check and
ratings. A group of more than 50 anonymous radio executives looks over the
types of projects the nominees are involved in within their local communities,
listens to an eight-minute sample of their programs and examines how well they
do in ratings compared to other area stations. After the executives listen to
the entries, they nominate the top five and go through the process again with
those nominees.
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