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Article: KING-TV Hits Hard in Investigations; Wins Large-Market Prize for Excellence.(investigative reporting)
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- TelevisionWeek
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- October 16, 2006
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Byline: Debra Kaufman
Special to TelevisionWeek
The Murrow Award for overall excellence in news for a large-market station went to KING-TV in Seattle, and the win for best newscast to WBZ-TV in Boston. KING Executive News Director Pat Costello said that the station did well throughout 2005 with its investigative reporting. One report that got attention was "Trouble on the Tarmac,'' a hard-hitting series about major problems at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. KING-TV reporters discovered that gang members had been hired as baggage handlers, as well as numerous other troubling security breaches.
The station earlier this year won a ...