2021 HOMETOWN MEDIA AWARD WINNERS

The 2021 Hometown Media Awards received almost 1,000 entries. They all are submitted and evaluated on several factors, including budget, experience and subject.

We appreciate everyone’s time and energy put into creating their productions and submitting them into this awards program. The ACM also thanks the volunteer judges for sharing their knowledge, expertise and time to evaluate the entries. Our judges review the submissions from their assigned category, score accordingly on a rubric and provide feedback to all entries which request commentary on their submissions.

The programs entered for the 2021 Hometown Media Awards had their first telecast on a local cable access channel or their initial stream/web distribution on or between January 1 - December 31, 2020.

The ACM is honored to announce the winners of 2021 Hometown Media Awards listed below. The 2021 winners are all invited to the 2021 Annual Conference’s Hometown Media Awards Celebration on Wednesday, June 30. More details will be posted in the coming weeks regarding the event.

Thank you to our hometown media award sponsor, Municipal Captioning!

the Hometown Media Awards Reel 2021

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Overall Excellence Category Winners

The Overall Excellence awards recognize access organizations for their overall operational activities and programming efforts. Access organizations are split into four budget-based divisions:

>$1,000,00
$650,000 – $1,000,000
$300,000-$650,000
< $300,000

Overall Excellence in Combined P. E. or G. Access Winners

$650,000 – $1,000,000 division: Pasadena Media
$300,000-$650,000 division: Norwood Community Media
<$300,000 division: Brattleboro Community Television
>$1,000,000 division: Daniel J. Leone, Roslyn Nieves, Madeline Johnson, Luchia Dragosh, John Leinung, Tyrone Stith, Joseph Swift, Noran Omar, Christina Gary, Kyle Meyfohrt - Queens Public Television

Overall Excellence in Public Access Winners

>$1,000,000 division: Cambridge Community Television
$650,000 – $1,000,000 division: Robert Schaufeld, President, Erica Bradley, Executive Director, Rebecca Farina, Editor - North Shore TV
$300,000-$650,000 division: The Staff & Volunteers of MHTV - Marblehead Community Access & Media, Inc.
< $300,000 vision: WPAA-TV and Community Media Center

Overall Excellence in Educational Access Winner

$300,000-$650,000 division: Tiffany Saunders, Dan Agostino, Bobby Longoria, Pam Williams - AISD.TV
< $300,000 division: Allison Long - GHS-TV Germantown High School Television
> $1,000,000 division: MCTV Producing Team - Montgomery College Television

Overall Excellence in Governmental Access Winners

>$1,000,000 division: Donna Monacci, Executive Producer - Fairfax County Government Channel 16
$300,000-$650,000 division: HOMTV
<$300,000 division: The OMNI Centre for Public Media, Inc., City of Carmel, IN

Overall Excellence in Community Radio

>$1,000,000 division: Boston Neighborhood Network
$300,000-$650,000 division: KDRT-LP 95.7 FM - Davis Media Access

Standard Categories Winners

The Standard Categories awards recognize producers for their program efforts in a concentrated area/topic. Producers are split into three divisions based on their level of expertise:

Access Center Professional – Programs created by employees of community media or access centers.
Independent Producer – Programs created by producers independent of community media or access centers (no compensation).
Student Division – Programs created by current students enrolled in primary, secondary or undergraduate schools. Non-students may supervise the production, but the overall direction, control of the production and all technical tasks (camera, directing, editing, sound, etc.) must be performed by the youth involved.