America 250! What an incredible array of celebrations, events, and promotions we get to choose from for this year’s WBA Awards “Special Category!” From station imaging, special programming, and client commercials, to interviews, on-site broadcasts, community service, and anything else your station has done to partner with the community to honor this moment in our country’s history – it all qualifies for this category!
This special category award appearing in the next WBA Awards rulebook will honor the best entry that showcases the many ways your station participated in, helped promote, and commemorated the America 250 celebrations in your community!
We’re looking for the most creative montage you can put together. Use your best stuff – humorous, dramatic, exciting, serious, fun. There are no limits to what you can use, as long as it relates to America 250, and as long as it aired during 2026.
Make a long list of everything that relates to the celebration of our country’s 250th birthday throughout the year. Use as much as you can. Use what moves you. Use what made you smile. And use the moments you captured to make an incredible montage worthy of saving in your station’s archives to revisit in the years to come.
Have lots of fun with this one, that’s why we created this special category! ‘Merica!
Nancy Douglass
WBA Awards Committee
