March 19, 2021 – Millikin University student-run radio station 89.5 WJMU The Quad received a Golden Microphone Award at the 81st Annual Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) Media Conference and Awards on March 6. The campus station’s programming and student staff also received finalist nominations for four Golden Microphone Awards for their work done in 2020.
Sam Laro, a junior theatre major from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Alex Saviano, a junior theatre major from Saint Charles, Illinois, won the Golden Microphone Award for Best Specialty Show programming for “Big Blue Broadway,” a weekly production aired on Sunday evenings from 6-8 p.m.
WJMU as a station received a finalist nomination for Best College Radio Station at an institution with an enrollment under 10,000 students.
The national IBS finalists are selected from thousands of entries in over 50 categories, and finalists represent the top three to five percent of entries judged in any individual category.
