2023 Outstanding Achievement Awards Results
The 2023 Outstanding Achievement Awards have been judged, and the results are here. Congratulations to this year's winners, and THANK YOU to everyone who entered. Oklahoma broadcasters continue to set high standards for our industry.
Best of Show was determined by number of awards and individual scores for each award.
Awards will be presented at our Outstanding Achievements Awards Banquet at 7:00pm on Thursday, April 4, 2024, at the River Spirit Casino Resort in Tulsa.
Television Division
Afternoon/Evening Newscast | KOCO | 5 News at 5pm |
Morning News | KJRH | 2News Oklahoma Today |
Weathercast | KOKI | Morning Weather with FOX 23’s Laura Mock |
Sportscast | KOCO | 5 Sports at 10pm |
Investigative Reporting | KOKH | State Leaders’ Questionable Use of Signal App |
Spot News | KFOR | Dire Situation at Lake Overholser |
Spot Weather | KFOR | 4WARN Storm Team Alert: Cole and Shawnee Tornadoes |
General News | KOTV | Officer Zarkeshan’s Story of Survival |
News Topicals & TSRs | KFOR | Glynn Simmons, The Wrong Man |
Feature—Series | OETA | Black Frontier Towns |
Feature—Single | KOTV | The History Made Her Stay |
Franchise Reporting | KOCO | Get the Facts: Money Matters |
Feature Photography | KWTV | Africa: Among the Wild |
Spot Photography | KWTV | Logan County Wildfires |
General Image Promotion | KOTV | The Reign of Terror |
News Image Promotion | KFOR | Glynn Simmons Exoneration: Looking Out 4 Justice |
Weather Image Promotion | KWTV | Night of Tornadoes |
Long-Form Programming—General | KWTV | Africa: Among the Wild |
Long-Form Programming—Sports | KXII | Max Blitz |
Website | KFOR | KFOR.com |
Civil Discourse and Social Change | KFOR | The Wrong Man |
Non-Metro Radio Division
Newscast | KCLI | Local News |
Sportscast | KECO | Skinny On Sports Report |
Play by Play | KREF | Norman High Opens Playoff with Kick Return for TD |
Commercial Announcement | 1st: KECO | Just Add Water: Joe |
2nd: KEOK | Barrett Spinal Care: Radio Works | |
Website | KWON | BartlesvilleRadio.com |
Station Image Promotion | KOFM | Feeding Families |
Feature Story | KWON | Christmas in the Ville |
Station Event Promotion | KTFX | George Strait Day: #straittomuskogee |
Long Form Programming | KPNC | The Real Life Night of the Twisters: The Tragic Blackwell Tornado |
Video Streaming Sports | *Tie* | |
KREF | Moore Football Comeback vs Norman | |
KECO | Elk City vs Weatherford | |
Video Streaming General | KDOE | Antlers Homecoming Parade |
Personality of the Year | KOFM | My Country Mornings with Clepper and Kaylee |
Metro Radio Division
Feature Story | KGOU | Trans Oklahomans Find Community Through Music Amid Heightened Anti-Queer Rhetoric in Legislature |
General News | KTOK | Governor’s Cockfighting Message |
Website | KRXO | TheFranchiseOK.com |
Station Image Promotion | KRMG | Father’s Day Storm Coverage |
Personality of the Year | KWEN | Cait & Bradley, K95.5 Mornings |
2023 Community Service Awards
Radio Division
KPGM | Bartlesville |
KRIG | Bartlesville |
KWON | Bartlesville |
KYFM | Bartlesville |
KNID | Enid |
KOFM | Enid |
KREF | Norman |
KWFF | Oklahoma City |
KZTH | Oklahoma City |
KJTH | Ponca City |
KLVV | Ponca City |
KJSR | Tulsa |
KRAV | Tulsa |
KRMG | Tulsa |
KWEN | Tulsa |
Television Division
KFOR | Oklahoma City |
KOCO | Oklahoma City |
KOKH | Oklahoma City |
KWTV | Oklahoma City |
KJRH | Tulsa |
KMYT | Tulsa |
KOKI | Tulsa |
KOTV | Tulsa |