campaign wins Emmy® for community outreach

Award honors excellence in television for marshaling support for a worthy community cause.

Idaho Public Television’s Welcome to the Unaltered State won the prestigious Community Outreach Emmy® at the 62 Annual NW National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences award ceremony in Seattle, June 7th.

IdahoPTV’s Ben Weaver with the Community Outreach Emmy®.

The award is given by the NATAS NW Board of Governors to honor excellence performed by a television or allied media entity whose primary mission is producing television or video content (news or non-news) recognizing an effort to focus interest on and marshal support for a worthy community cause or causes.

The Community Outreach Emmy® award recognizes key players in the campaign launch including IdahoPTV general manager, Jeff Tucker; campaign manager, Jennie Sue Weltner; former IdahoPTV production assistant Austin Henderson; IdahoPTV multimedia specialist Ben Weaver (pictured); and Tom Hadzor, Bill Krumm and Alex Hon of WideEye Productions.

This the second year that Idaho Public Television has won the Community Outreach Emmy®. IdahoPTV won the award in 2024 for the KNOW VAPE campaign, a statewide awareness campaign designed to warn parents, teens and educators about the dangers of youth vaping.

The Community Outreach Emmy® was presented to representatives of Idaho Public Television at the 62nd Annual NW NATAS Emmy Award ceremony on June 7th in Seattle, WA.