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LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY: Greg Stotelmyer, reporter for WTVQ-TV, Lexington,
has been named recipient of Kentucky Farm Bureau’s 2005 communications
award for a broadcaster.
He was presented the award today at the fall convention of the Kentucky
Broadcasters Association at the Ramada Inn in Paintsville.
The Farm Bureau communications award consists of an engraved plaque,
a $300 cash award, and an expense paid trip to Washington D.C for the
annual Farm Bureau Congressional Tour. It has been presented by Farm Bureau
since 1960 to a broadcaster who has done exceptional work in building
better relations and understanding between farmers and the non-farm public.
A similar award is presented annually to a writer.
During his career at WTVQ, Stotelmyer has built a solid reputation as
a skilled farm broadcaster and respected agricultural spokesman. He is
a two-time winner of the Farm Bureau award, the first coming in 1993.
His station is the ABC Network affiliate for central Kentucky. Its coverage
area of 39 Kentucky counties and approximately 465,000 homes, gives his
work distribution in an area where agriculture consistently rates as a
top economic force.
Stotelmyer is a 1978 Summa Cum Laude graduate of Western Kentucky University,
where he double majored in speech and mass communications.
In 2003, Stotelmyer won an Emmy for his hour long “A Year on Kentucky’s
Backroads”, and in 2002, was nominated for a regional Emmy for his
reporting along Kentucky’s Backroads. He is also the recipient of
other awards including the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio and Television
News Directors Association, and a variety of United Press International
and Associated Press Awards, including a 1997 honorable mention for the
best TV reporter in Kentucky.
Stotelmyer is a native of Connersville, Indiana. He currently lives in
Richmond with his wife, Paula, and stepdaughter, Kylee.
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