KTVI won the station excellence award and KSDK’s Mike Bush and Frank Cusumano won as news and sports anchors at Saturday night’s Mid-America Emmys. But St. Louis stations overall didn’t make a very impressive showing, with the award for news excellence going to KMBC in Kansas City, which also won for big-market evening newscast.
This full list of winners went up on STLtoday.com late Saturday night and was in the Sunday print edition in abbreviated form. But I know how hard it can be to find a specific article on the website, so I’m reposting it here.

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Sunday, Oct. 04 2009
Harold “Hal” Protter, a longtime St. Louis television station executive, on
Saturday received the 2009 President’s Award from the Mid-America chapter of
the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Protter was general manager of KPLR-TV for many years and is a vice president
of CW Television, a national television network. The chapter honored him for
his years of service to the industry and for his advocacy of digital and
high-definition television, a chapter spokesman said.
The chapter honored five 25-year veterans in the television industry in its
area. They are Sharon Stevens of KSDK-TV, Tom O’Neal of KTVI-TV, both of St.
Louis; Dan Henry Bowser of WDAF-TV in Kansas City; Randy Dixon of KATV-TV of
Little Rock, Ark, and Michael Murray of the University of Missouri St. Louis.

The chapter gave out regional Emmy awards in 76 categories. The event was in
the Majestic Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel.
Here is the list of Emmy winners:

Newscast-Morning/Daytime 1-49, KMBC, Troy Diggs, Chris Meggs, Jason Ridder
Newscast-Evening 1-49, KMBC, Dennis Sulsberger
Newscast-Evening 50+, KATV, Patrick Green, Mark Farrell, Randy Dixon
Newscast-Weekend, KTVI, Steve Schrager, Shirley Washington, Elliott
Davis
General Assignment Report-Within 24hrs, KTHV, Ashley Blackstone, Kenny W.
Reynolds
General Assignment Report-No Time Limit, WDAF, John Holt, Mike Lewis
Breaking News, KMBC, Sherrie Brown,
Spot News, WPSD (tie), Paula Bridges, KTHV (tie), Charles Crowson
Investigative, KSHB (tie), Keith King, KSDK (tie), Leisa Zigman
Feature News Report-Light Feature, KOMU, Sarah Hill, Scott Schaefer
Feature News Report-Serious Feature, KMOV (tie) Erica Byfield, WDAF
(tie), Leslie Carto, Mike Lewis
Team Coverage, KTVI, Audrey Prywitch
Arts/Entertainment-Program Feature, HEC, Nancy Pasternak, Jayne Ballew,
HEC, Sarah Thompson, Boyd Pickup
Arts/Entertainment-Program/Special, HEC, Kathy Bratkowski, Paul Schankman,
Greg Kopp
Business Consumer, KCTV, Dana Wright, Chris Koeberl, Ken Ullery
Education/Schools, KMBC, Maria Antonia, Tim Twyman,
Health News - Story-Feature, KSDK, Mike Bush, Eric Voss
Science/Environment, KCTV, Ash-har Quraishi, Chris Koeberl, Ken Ullery
Historical/Cultural - News Story/Feature, KOMU, Jim Matheny, Scott Schaefer
Historical/Cultural - Program Story/Feature KETC, Jim Kirchherr
Politics/Government, KCTV, Ash-har Quraishi, Ken Ullery, Chris Henao
Religion, The Steve & Kathy Show, Steve Gray,
Human Interest - News Story/Feature, KOMU, Sarah Hill, Scott Schaefer,
Human Interest - Program Story/Feature, alt.news 26:46 Jay Carey
Specialty News Series, KOLR, Joy Robertson
Specialty Program, alt.news 26:46 Kevin Rogers
Sports - Story, KSHB, Mike Marusarz
Sports - Sportscast, KSDK, Frank Cusumano
Sports - Feature, KSDK, Mike Bush, Scott Suppelsa
Sports - Program, Metro Sports Stephen Spiegel, Charlie Parker
Sports Special, FSN Midwest, Colleen Ryan, Chris Felt
Sporting Event/Game - Live/Unedited, FSN Midwest Mark Hulsey, Lindsay
Polette, Will Bealke
Weather, KMBC, Bryan Busby, Lisa Teachman, Johnny Rowlands
Documentary - Cultural, Metro Sports Stephen Spiegel
Documentary - Historical, MO Press Assoc., Beth Pike, Stephen Hudnell, Doug
Crews
Interview/Discussion, Metro Sports Marcia Williams-Schmidt, Chris Gough,
Dave Neilson, Herbie Teope
Magazine Program, , alt.news 26:46 Jay Carey, Tom Lareau
Public/Current/Community Affairs-Special, KCCG, Joe Camoriano
Informational, PlattForm Adv Michael Mackie, Jason Kerschner
Special Event Coverage, KMOV, Dianne Casey, Ryan Stana
Community/Public Service (PSA), Coolfire Media (tie) Patrick Vaughan
Technisonic (tie) Tom Newcomb, Randy Shryock, Jim Karpowicz
News Promo - Single Spot, KCTV, Sara Visomirski, Mark Olson
News Promo - Campaign Image, KSHB, Jason Smith, Randy Thurman
News Promo - Image Promo, Metro Sports (tie) John Kekeisen, Ed Dec
alt.news 26:46 (tie) Dylan Damian
Commercial - Single Spot, Coolfire Media (tie) Kevin Johnson Coolfire Media (tie) Mike Kuhn
Commercial - Campaign, HEC, Sarah Thompson, Boyd Pickup
Station Excellence, KTVI, Audrey Prywitch
News Excellence, KMBC, Sherrie Brown
Community Service, KOMU, Sarah Hill, Scott Schaefer, Barb Brueggeman
Journalistic Enterprise, KTVI, Mandy Murphy, Dave Sharp, Greg Gibson
Audio, Coolfire Media Brent Johnson,
Musical Composition/Arrangement, University of Arkansas, James Greeson
Director - Live or Live to tape, FSN Midwest (tie) Tom Mee, KTVI, (tie) Jarrett Shustrin
Director - Post-Production, WICS, Brent Barrow
Editor - Program/Program Feature, Metro Sports Erik Ashel
Editor - Spot Length (Program/PSA/Comm) Coolfire Media Kevin Johnson
Editor - News 24 hours, KTHV, Kenny W. Reynolds
Editor - News-No Time Limit, KOMU, Scott Schaefer
Editor - Sports, Metro Sports Erik Ashel
Graphic Arts - Graphics-Program/News, TCT Ministries Tim Matthews
Graphic Arts - Animation, KTVI/KPLR, Gregory Schrick
On Camera Talent/Anchor - News, KSDK, Mike Bush
On Camera Talent/Anchor - Performer/Host alt.news 26:46 Scott Blair
On Camera Talent/Anchor - Sports Anchor, KSDK, Frank Cusumano
Photographer/Program, Metro Sports Erik Ashel
Photographer/News - Within 24hrs, KTHV, Kenny W. Reynolds
Photographer/News - No Time Limit, KOMU, Scott Schaefer
Photographer/Sports (Single Camera), Metro Sports Erik Ashel
Writer/Program, University of Arkansas, Larry Foley
Writer/News, KOMU, Sarah Hill
Advanced Media - Arts/Entertainment, David Hanklynn Prods. Jennifer Plass,
Meagan Flynn, Michelle Davidson-Bratcher, Metro Productions
Advanced Media - Informational/Instruc, WDAF, Damon Bryant, Daniel Nelson
Advanced Media - Interactivity, WDAF, Damon Bryant, Daniel Nelson, Michele
Allen
Advances Media - News Programming, KATV, Mark Farrell, Heather Crawford
Student Production - News, WEIU, Barbara Harrington
Student Production - Non-News Program, University of Arkansas, (tie) Larry Foley, Devin Vaughn (tie) Devin Vaughn, Adam Slutsky,

The Mid-America chapter was chartered in 1962 and began honoring outstanding
achievement in this region with local Emmy Awards in 1976. The Mid-America
chapter includes the television markets primarily in Missouri, Arkansas and
Illinois and surrounding DMAs: St. Louis, Kansas City, Little Rock,
Springfield (MO), St. Joseph, Columbia-Jefferson City, Joplin-Pittsburg,
Quincy-Hannibal-Keokuk, Ottumwa-Kirksville, Davenport-Rock Island-Moline,
Paducah-Cape Girardeau-Harrisburg, Champaign-Springfield-Decatur, Fort
Smith-Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Jonesboro, Monroe-Eldorado and Shreveport
(LA).