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GRANITE FALLS, Minnesota, September 9, 2024 - Pioneer PBS has been nominated for 23 Upper Midwest Emmy® Awards featuring local shows that tell your stories. Long-running Pioneer PBS programs Postcards and Prairie Sportsman, Compass and our team dedicated to sharing veteran stories received nominations.
Pioneer PBS’s arts, culture and history program Postcards received 16 nominations. The program is produced by Dana Conroy and features videography and editing by Ben Dempcy and Kristofor Gieske. This year’s nominations also feature producing and editing by Mike Scholtz, writing and audio work by Austin Carson and additional videography by Tyler Gastecki and Amanda Anderson.
Postcards has been nominated for the following stories and segments, which feature interviews from and profiles of people from communities in the extensive Pioneer PBS viewing area: Madison’s Lutefisk Eating Contest, From Sheep to Shirt (Laura Demuth), A Pressing Legacy (Mary Bruno), From Negative to Positive (Carla Rodriguez), One Man Band (Steve Solkela), Frieda’s Cafe, All the Hours of Love (Raine Cloud), Small Town, Big Tradition (Rodeo in Minnesota), The Gunslinging Quilter (Anna Johannsen), Showcasing Rural Talents (Madison Mercantile), The 1968 Presidential Election Campaign (Mary Beth McCarthy Yarrow), From Haiti to Minnesota (Antonio and Paulaine Jean Louis), Indigenous Art Collaboration, Luck & Love: A Rodeo Story, Eight Women Together Alone and Frozen in Time: The Vietnam War.
Pioneer PBS’s sporting, recreation and conservation program Prairie Sportsman was nominated for five programs and segments. The Prairie Sportsman crew is comprised of Dylan Curfman, producer, videographer and editor; Cindy Dorn, producer and writer; Bret Amundson, host and producer; Dan Amundson, videographer and editor and Cera Cordova, videographer and editor.
Prairie Sportsman was nominated for: Fighting Forever Chemicals, Connecting Kids to Nature, Deep Crappie Research, Weed Terminator and Healing Purple Hearts.
Pioneer PBS’s public affairs program Compass received a nomination for an episode from its Minnesota’s Alt-Meat Revolution series. Give Peas a Chance is produced, shot and edited by Amanda Anderson with additional videography and editing by Esmeralda Ziemer and Dylan Curfman.
Pioneer PBS is committed to telling veterans stories. Tyler Gastecki, producer, videographer, editor and Dylan Curfman, videographer, received a nomination for Night Wings: OSS Carpetbagger Ops, which showcases the experiences of WWII Veteran Robert Holmstrom during his time in the pre-CIA Office of Strategic Services.
“We feel quite blessed to be recognized for so many of the stories Pioneer PBS has aired in the past year. We are honored to share the voices of this region to a wide audience and share how special our region is,” said Shari Lamke, president and general manager of the station.
Watch all of the nominated stories, past and present, online at www.pioneer.org/emmys.
Awards for winning nominations will be presented at an event hosted by The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Upper Midwest Chapter Saturday, October 19 in Prior Lake.
About Pioneer PBS
Established in 1966, Pioneer PBS is an award-winning, viewer-supported television station dedicated to sharing stories from rural Minnesota with the world. Pioneer PBS is headquartered in Granite Falls, Minnesota, with towers in Appleton, Worthington and Fergus Falls. Pioneer PBS reaches more than a million people in rural areas and small towns in western Minnesota, the eastern Dakotas and northern Iowa. Pioneer PBS is honored to be your television station—the only station in western Minnesota telling your stories and raising your voices into the media landscape. Our members help make programs like this possible with their generous support. For more information about Pioneer PBS or to learn how you can help us make these stories a reality, visit pioneer.org/support or call 800-726-3178.
These productions are made possible in part by contributions from the voters of Minnesota through a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, Explore Alexandria Tourism, Shalom Hill Farm, Margaret A. Cargil Philanthropies, 96.7kram and Pioneer PBS members like you. These programs are also supported by local sponsorships from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund, Shalom Hill Farm, West Central Initiative and additional partners from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, West Central Tribune, Forum Communications and the World Channel.