Aklanon Wins KBP Award For Guitars News Feature

BY Venus G. Villanueva

For co-producing a radio news feature titled "Cebu Guitars" at a seminar-workshop she attended in Cebu City last year, Sally Villasis, radio program coordinator of radio station DYMT of the Aklan State University (ASU), Banga Campus was adjudged first prize winner in the Radio News Feature Awards. She shared the award with her co-producer, Patty Tolentino of DZRH, Manila Broadcasting Company.
The award was given to the winners during the Kapisanan ng Mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) General Membership meeting held on August 16 at the Dusit Hotel in Makati City.
Villasis and Tolentino shared the cash prize of P25,000, part of a grant from Free Voice of the Netherlands.
"The award is given to encourage radio broadcasters to take a more conscious effort to help radio audience better understand what is happening in the community through feature stories that are informative and interesting", KBP President Butch Canoy told Villasis in his letter to inform her of the award.
According to Villasis, the Radio News Feature Seminar Workshop she attended in Cebu was held in September 2006, jointly sponsored by the KBP and the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ).
Her attendance to the Cebu seminar was recommended by Aklan KBP Chairman and IBC-DYRG Station Manager Augusto C. Tolentino, himself a recipient of various awards from the KBP.
DYMT is a community radio station which started operating in 1993. Dr. Ana Mae Relingo is its current station manager, with the full operation support of ASU President Dr. Benny Palma.
Villasis is an active member of the Aklan Public Information Officers Association (APIOA) and the associations’s incoming Vice President. /MP