{"id":18579,"date":"2026-04-29T14:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/?p=18579"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:58:37","slug":"donald-connelly-receives-bea-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/blog\/2026\/04\/29\/donald-connelly-receives-bea-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Connelly Receives BEA Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Donald Connelly, broadcast communication professor, received the Broadcast Education Association\u2019s Best of Competition Award, the week of April 18, in Las Vegas, Nev.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The BEA national convention is held every April in Las Vegas, bringing together thousands of professors, researchers and media students from around the country. The conference is co-hosted by the National Association of Broadcasters\u2019 national and international convention.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Connelly submitted a public service announcement, PSA, that he wrote, voiced, recorded, edited and mixed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His PSA was about electric scooter and skateboard safety, from the perspective of Universal Electric Scooter and Skateboard Life Insurance Company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d[I] thought it had some unique characteristics using \u2018dark humor\u2019 and satire to get the point across,\u201d said Connelly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Connelly is a five-time recipient of the BEA Best of Competition Award and a five-time recipient of the BEA Best of Festival Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation Award, the highest honor within the BEA.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additionally, Connelly\u2019s work in radio production has earned him the prestigious Gabriel Award from the Catholic Academy of Communication Arts Professionals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Listen to his award-winning PSA:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-18579-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2026\/04\/Universal-Scooter-and-Statboard-Life-PSA-1-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2026\/04\/Universal-Scooter-and-Statboard-Life-PSA-1-1.mp3\">https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/2026\/04\/Universal-Scooter-and-Statboard-Life-PSA-1-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\u00a0&#8220;Universal Electric Scooter and Skateboard life Insurance Company&#8221; \u00a0 Copyright, 2025, Donald W. Connelly<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Connelly, broadcast communication professor, received the Broadcast Education Association\u2019s Best of Competition Award, the week of April 18, in Las Vegas, Nev. The BEA national convention is held every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3360,"featured_media":9648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-focus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18579"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18584,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18579\/revisions\/18584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/affiliate.wcu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}