The station’s award was for a 30-minute sports program called “Herd Roundup,” which ran Friday, Sept. 28, 2007. The students who participated in the program were co-host and producer Adam Cavalier, a junior from Montgomery, W.Va.; co-host and producer Andrew Ramspacher, a sophomore from Dublin, Ohio; reporter Brian Dalek, a junior from McMechen, W.Va., and reporter Cathleen Moxley, a senior from Chapmanville, W.Va.

Bailey said the station competed with other media outlets with an online Web site from colleges and universities throughout the country whose staffs attended the 86th annual National College Media Convention.

WMUL students also received one Platinum award, two Gold awards and one Honorable Mention award in the MarCom Creative Awards 2007 Competition. The winners were named in a letter dated Tuesday, Nov. 13 from Arlington, Texas. 

The MarCom Creative Awards is an international competition that recognizes achievement by marketing and communication practitioners.  Entries are judged by industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talent exceeds a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry.  More than 5,000 entries were submitted in the MarCom Creative Awards 2007 Competition.

The MarCom’s prestigious Platinum Award is presented to those entries judged to be among the most outstanding entries in the competition.  Platinum Winners are recognized for their excellence in terms of quality, creativity and resourcefulness. The Gold Award is presented to those entries judged to exceed the high standards of the industry.  Honorable Mention certificates are granted to those entries that meet the expectations of the judges.

Platinum and Gold Winners come from radio stations, advertising and public relations agencies, corporate communication departments, educational institutions, government entities, designers, writers, video production professionals, broadcast and cable operations and other business and individuals throughout the country and several foreign countries.

The Platinum Award-winning entry by WMUL-FM was in the Writing/Radio Script category. The script for the documentary program “Lasting Perfection: The Tenth Anniversary of the 1996 Marshall Thundering Herd Football National Championship Season” was written by Dave Wilson, a recent graduate from St. Marys, W.Va. The script was completed Friday, Nov. 3, 2006.

Each of the Gold Award-winning entries was in the Public Service Announcement category. “Cabell-Wayne Adopt-A-Pet” is an in-house public service announcement broadcast in WMUL-FM’s Public Service Announcement rotation from Monday, May 1, 2006 through the present time. It was written and produced by Adam Cavalier.

“Intolerance” is an in-house public service announcement broadcast in WMUL-FM’s Public Service Announcement rotation from Monday, April 16, 2007 through the present time, written and produced by Terry Bartley, a senior from Foster, W.Va.

The Honorable Mention Award-winning entry also was in the Public Service Announcement category. “Sleep Deprivation,” an in-house public service announcement broadcast in WMUL-FM’s Public Service Announcement rotation from Monday, April 30, 2007, through the present time, was written and produced by Alexis Stewart, a senior from Cyclone, W.Va.

“This is an outstanding accomplishment to be recognized as having produced one of the best documentary scripts in the country as well as highly regarded radio production of three public service announcements,” Bailey said. “The scriptwriting skill honored by the Platinum Award demonstrates the research and storytelling ability of our motivated students. The Gold and Honorable Mention Awards are a tribute to production quality and public service commitment of our broadcast students in competition with professional practitioners.”

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