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Monday, April 13, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Rick Mattioni, News Director, WVTF

WVTF Public Radio wins prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award

WVTF is the recipient of a prestigious award from the Radio Television News Directors Association (RTNDA). WVTF has been chosen to receive a regional Edward R. Murrow award in the feature reporting category for the Washington, DC, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia region of RTNDA.

The award recognizes WVTF reporter Sandy Hausman's "Dinner in the Dark" story, a feature about a Charlottesville restaurant where diners are served their meals in darkness. The award winning piece aired on WVTF last December, 2008 and is currently available for listening on WVTF’s web site at:

http://www.wvtf.org/news_and_notes/index.php?audioPage=11.

Ms Hausman’s story qualifies WVTF for entry into the national award competition with winners to be announced later this year.

RTNDA has been honoring outstanding achievements in electronic journalism with the Edward R. Murrow Awards since 1971. Murrow's pursuit of excellence in journalism embodies the spirit of the awards that carry his name. Murrow Award recipients demonstrate the spirit of excellence that Edward R. Murrow made a standard for the broadcast news profession.

WVTF has previously won Edward R. Murrow Awards, and in 1996 it won a national award for regional news coverage. WVTF Public Radio is a National Public Radio (NPR) member station broadcasting news, classical and jazz music, public affairs, and other cultural programming on 89.1 in Roanoke, 88.5 and 89.3 in Charlottesville, 91.9 in Marion, 90.5 in Wise, and online at www.wvtf.org. RADIO IQ is a service of WVTF Public Radio, broadcasting BBC news and NPR talk programs at 89.9 in Ferrum, 89.7 in Roanoke, 89.5 in Lynchburg, 89.7 and 91.5 in Charlottesville, 1260 AM in the New River Valley and online at www.radioiq.org.

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