Documentary
producer
earns recognition
A UM television producer has won two prestigious awards for his work on
MontanaPBS. KUFM-TV and UM Broadcast Media Center producer Gus Chambers received a
1999-2000 Rocky Mountain Emmy Award for his program "The Bicycle Corps: America's
Black Army on Wheels," which aired on MontanaPBS in December.
This award from the Arizona Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and
Sciences (NATAS) was in the Outstanding Program Achievement category for Cultural Issues
Documentaries.
Chambers was the only Montana winner in this year's awards.
Chambers' program also won an E.B. Craney Award for Noncommercial Program of the Year
from the Montana Broadcasters Association.
The Arizona Chapter of NATAS includes Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Montana and areas of
California, Wyoming and Texas. Each June the organization honors television excellence
with the Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards.
"The Bicycle Corps" is scheduled to air nationwide on the Public Broadcasting
Service Sept. 4.
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