RTNA Presents Southern California's Golden Mike Awards

RADIO ONLINE | Monday, January 21, 2019

RTNA

The Radio & Television News Association of Southern California announced the winners of its 69th annual Golden Mike Awards on January 19 in Los Angeles. In radio, Sports KLAC-AM (AM 570 LA Sports)/Los Angeles sports anchor Vic "The Brick" Jacobs and Southern California Public Radio News/Talk KPCC/Los Angeles "Air Talk" host Larry Mantle received Lifetime Achievement Awards. Other radio winners included:

Best Newscast -- Over 15 Minutes
Division A: KNX-AM for "KNX Mid-day News"
Division B: No award

Best News Broadcast -- Under 15 Minutes
Division A: KFI-AM "4pm News on KFI"
Division B: KABC-AM "KABC News at 7:30am"

Best Traffic Report
Division A: KNX-AM "Traffic on the 5s"
Division B: KABC-AM "KABC Traffic with Bill Thomas"

Best Individual Writing
Division A: KPCC-FM "One Month after Las Vegas Shooting, New Reality Sets in for SoCal Family"
Division B: KCLU-AM/FM "A New Shot at Life"

Best Sports Reporting
Division A: KFI-AM "UCLA 3 Saga"
Division B: KLAC-AM "A Whirlwind Year for Kike Hernandez and Puerto Rico"

Best Continuing Coverage
Division A: KFI-AM "Thomas Fire/Montecito Debris Flow"
Division B: KCLU-AM/FM "The Twin Disasters: The Thomas Fire and Montecito Debris Flow"

Best "Live" Coverage Of A News Story
Division A: KNX-AM "SoCal Fires"
Division B: KCLU-AM/FM "The Inferno"

Best News Public Affairs Program
Division A: KNX-AM "KNX In-depth: 9/11 -- A World Turned Upside Down"
Division B: KVPR-FM "Valley Edition -- February 6, 2018"

Best News Reporting
Division A: KCRW-FM "1,500 miles from home: California Prisoners in Mississippi"
Division B: KSJV-FM "A Un Ano del Devastador Huracan Harvey, Familias latinas Se Recuperan por Cuenta Propia"

Best News Reporting By A Radio Network Or Content Syndicator
One Division: Westwood One "Las Vegas October 1 Shooting: 1 Year Later"

Best Hard News Series Reporting
One Division" KCRW-FM "Motel Living"

Best Feature News Series Reporting
One Division" KOGO-AM "'Shattered in 1968: San Diego Remembers'"

Best Investigative Reporting
Division A: KPCC-FM "Rats, Roaches, Bedbugs, Mold: Why Thousands of LA's Homeless Shelter Beds Sit Empty Each Night"
Division B: KVPR-FM "The Fresno Detention Facility ICE Doesn't Want You to Know About"

Best Serious Feature Reporting -- One Minute Or Longer
One Division: KCRW-FM "Robert F. Kennedy and California's Farm Labor Movement"

Best Serious Feature Reporting -- Shorter Than One Minute
One Division: KFI-AM "Olvera Street Merchants"

Best Light Feature Reporting -- One Minute Or Longer
One Division: KPCC-FM "The Truth about Peeing in the Pool"

Best Light Feature Reporting -- Shorter than One Minute
One Division: KCDZ-FM "Local Firefighters Pitch in for Yucca Valley's Miracle League"

Best Entertainment Reporting
Division A: KPCC-FM "Writer and Musician Our Lady J Preaches the Gospel of Dolly Parton"
Division B: KCLU-AM/FM "The Violin Master"

Best Business And Consumer Reporting
Division A: KFI-AM "Tourism is Down in Las Vegas"
Division B: No Award

Best Government And Political Reporting
Division A: KCRW-FM "Should Homeless Housing Cost Half-a-Million Dollars a Unit?"
Division B: KCLU-AM/FM "Kids Help a Ventura County Government Agency"

Best Medical And Science Reporting
Division A: KPCC-FM "Cracking Down on Warehouses to Stem Pollution from Trucks -- Will it Work?"
Division B: KCLU-AM/FM "Scientific Invention to Save Sea Turtles from Extinction"

Best Use Of Sound
Division A: KFI-AM "Caravan from Central America Arrives at US Border"
Division B: KCLU-AM/FM "Improv at the Zoo"

Best Internet News Reporting
Division A: KFI-AM "Anthony Bourdain Remembered"
Division B: No Award