WPT wins prestigious Cronkite Award...

For the fourth biennial election cycle in a row, WPT has been awarded the University of Southern California Annenberg Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism.

The 2009 award recognizes the expansive body of work WPT produced during the 2008 election season. Election news, information, candidate statements and more were offered to viewers via WPT's weekly news and public affairs programs, campaign and election specials, on-air debates and Web sites. WPT previously won the prestigious national award in 2007, 2005 and 2003.

In bestowing the award, judges called WPT's campaign stories "as good as political coverage can get."

The award is presented every two years by the Norman Lear Center at USC's Annenberg School of Communication.

Learn more about this award by clicking here.

Catch Up on Public TV Shows Online...

Miss an episode of one of your favorite WPT programs? Trying to recall something you saw on Frontline last week? PBS is now offering a large number of their quality programs online for free in one convenient place.

Visitors to pbs.org/video will find a portal to more than two dozen PBS programs that have episodes and past program content available for viewing online.

These choices include episodes of American Experience, NOVA, NOW on PBS and Nature. There are also classic segments from Julia Child's cooking programs and archival collections from The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer.