650 CKOM wins Best Radio Newscast on the Prairies at RTDNA awards

650 CKOM and 980 CJME received three prestigious Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Prairie region awards on Monday.

The Radio Television Digital News Association represents radio and TV newsrooms across Canada.

650 CKOM won Best Radio Newscast for a November 2023 newscast featuring the details of a carbon monoxide poisoning at the Wakaw rink during a hockey tournament and the ongoing budget deliberations for the City of Saskatoon.

The broadcast showcases what our newsrooms deliver every day – local news that matters.

The RTDNA also recognized individual efforts.

980 CJME senior reporter Lisa Schick was recognized for a second time in three years for Feature News for her story on the results of the ground-penetrating radar search for unmarked graves at the former site of the Qu’Appelle Indian Residential School.

Star Blanket Cree Nation shared in January 2023 that 2,000 “confirmed hits” were found at former residential school site by using ground penetrating radar. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)

980 CJME’s Shane Clausing won Excellence in Sports reporting for a feature about a viral video of a drawbridge staircase at a small town rink.

Hockey players in Lang, Sask. have to take stairs from the top of the building to the ice surface. It’s something you rarely see in a hockey rink.

I play here sometimes. https://t.co/U2lSkXDmkZ pic.twitter.com/ndSaGxg3br

— Mike Foley (@mikefoleyfarms1) January 30, 2023

The three wins go forward to the national RTDNA awards on Nov. 2.

Editor’s note: This story contained an error related to the feature news category and has been corrected.