KARE-TV took home 23 Regional Emmy awards at a ceremony Saturday night, with eight of those going to the station’s longtime award-winning reporter Boyd Huppert.
More than 40 different companies received the region’s highest media honors from the Upper Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
More than 100 Regional Emmy awards went to media professionals from across Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and western Wisconsin.
Other top regional winners were: Twin Cities Public Television, 15 Emmys; KMSP, 11 Emmys; FOX Sports North, nine; and Elite Edge Productions, five.
The Upper Midwest Emmy Chapter set a new record with 94 individuals receiving awards.
Brendan Henehan from Twin Cities PBS in St. Paul was honored for his decades of service in the industry, along with Terry Dullum from WDAZ-TV in Grand Forks, N.D., and Tim Seaman from KCAU-TV in Sioux City, Iowa. They were inducted into the Upper Midwest Emmy Silver Circle, which honors 25 years or more in the television industry.
The Governor’s Emmy Award went to Fox Sports North, the Minnesota Wild, the Minnesota National Guard, the Metropolitan Airports Commission and Serving Our Troops for the project “Hockey Day Minnesota: From St. Paul to Kuwait.”
A list of all of the Regional Emmy recipients is at midwestemmys.org.
— Pioneer Press
