WTOL wins Murrow Awards for excellence

4/14/2009

WTOL-TV, Channel 11, won five Edward R. Murrow Awards from the Radio-Television News Directors Association, including the overall excellence honor.

The CBS-affiliated Toledo station also received awards for hard news coverage, investigative reporting, news series, and newscast for its WTOL News Your Morning anchored by Brad Harvey and Lauren Lowry.

"Our goal is to produce Toledo's most compelling newscasts day in and day out," Mitch Jacobs, the station's news director, said in a news release. "Our viewers - and our peers - recognize that and we're very honored to have been chosen for these awards."

This is the second consecutive year the station has won the Edward R. Murrow Award for overall excellence.