Awards
Southeast Emmy Awards
The Media Development Center has been nominated for fourteen Emmy awards on both the professional and student level, and has won five of those nominations.
- 2020 [Won] Environment/Science – Short Form Content
- 2020 [Nomination] Environment/Science – Short Form Content
- 2020 [Nomination] Director – Short Form Content
- 2019 [Won] Best Directing and Best Technical Directing – Art Berger [view article]
- 2019 [Nomination] Sports Interview and Discussion; “Freedom: A Georgia Southern Story” [view article]
- 2016 [Nomination] Audio-Live – “Selections – Georgia Southern Wind Symphony” [view article]
- 2016 [Won] Audio-Live – “Suite Provencale – Georgia Southern Wind Symphony” [view article]
- 2014 [Nomination] Director/Technical Director – Georgia Southern, Art Berger [view article]
- 2014 [Nomination] Sports Director – Georgia Southern, Art Berger [view article]
- 2013 [Won] Audio – Live – “Georgia Southern Symphony” [view article]
- 2013 [Nomination] Graphic Arts/Set Design –
“Inside Georgia Southern Basketball with C.Y. Young”
Student Emmy Awards
- 2019 [Won] Most Outstanding Newscast [view article]
- 2019 [Won] Public Affairs PSA [view article]
- 2019 [Won] Arts and Entertainment/Cultural Affairs [view article]
- 2019 [Won] Sports-Live Event Category [view article]
- 2015 [Nomination] College/University Student Production Non-News – “That is How You GATA”
- 2015 [Won] College/University Student Production Non-News – “The Wounded Warrior Project” [view article]
- 2014 [Nomination] College/University Student Production Non-News – “Just Wild – Saving Exotic Animals” [view article]
- 2014 [Nomination] College/University Student Production – “Chomp the Gators and Gus in Space” [view article]
- 2012 [Won] Student Production Non-News – “Inside Georgia Southern Football with Jeff Monken” [view article]
Telly Awards
- 2014 Bronze Winner Best Student Production – “Gus in Space & Chomp the Gators” [view article]
- 2014 Bronze Winner National Broadcast – Sports Series – “Inside Georgia Southern Football – GS Beats Florida” [view article]
- 2012 GS General Branding Commercial
- 2012 GS Graduate Commercial
- 2012 GS Undergraduate Commercial
- 2012 Inside Southern Football
MTVU College Television Awards
In 2014, the 35th annual College Television Awards, sponsored by mtvU and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, named Georgia Southern University’s MDC as a Blue Ribbon Finalist for Best Series. The recognition was for the production of the series “Just Wild,” which was developed by the MDC in collaboration with the Center for Wildlife Education and Lamar Q. Ball Jr. Raptor Center. [view article]
Society of Professional Journalism
The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) named the MDC a finalist for Best All-Around Television Newscast in 2014 for the student-produced GSN newscast.
Last updated: 6/21/2021