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Tegna has been named a 2023 honoree of The Civic 50 by Points of Light and the Telecommunications Sector Leader. The Civic 50 honors the most community-minded companies in the United States. 2023 marks Tegna’s fourth consecutive year on the list, and the third year as Telecommunications Sector Leader.

Meredith Conte, Tegna’s VP of marketing, shares how some of the Tegna stations are celebrating Black History Month this year. See the examples and hear from the content creators themselves about their approaches.

Community grants in the greater Indianapolis region are aimed at alleviating community concerns including health and education support, food insecurity and programs for at-risk youth.

See all the Indianapolis-only winners in the Indiana Broadcasters Association Spectrum Awards. In addition to Station of the Year, other categories include investigative, feature story, general news story, sports coverage, community involvement, weather coverage, station promotion and local commercial.

May 2022 will mark Dave Calabro ‘s 30th anniversary of covering sports for WTHR, Tegna’s NBC affiliate in Indianapolis.

Now, more than ever before, people are turning to local TV news for information they can trust about the changing conditions in their town, their city, county and state due to the coronavirus. And local TV marketers are responding with messages of hope and optimism, togetherness and kindness. Not the usual themes of local TV news promotion, but maybe the ones we need to hear right now.

Watch winning examples from KPRC Houston; WDIO Duluth; KARE Minneapolis; WVUE New Orleans; WTHR Indianapolis; KCCI Des Moines; KDVR Denver; and KNTV San Francisco. The Sigma Delta Chi Awards date back to 1932, when the Society of Professional Journalists (then called Sigma Delta Chi) first honored six individuals for contributions to journalism.