KMBC most excellent at 2009 Mid-America Emmys

Many are nominated ... and, well, frankly, many win at the Mid-America regional Emmy Awards, held every year at this time in St. Louis. Lots and lots of hardware was handed out Saturday night. Still, clearly some awards are more prestigious than others, and by my estimation, Kansas City's KMBC took home one of the top honors.

That's Channel 9 news director Sherrie Brown above, accepting the prize for news excellence (St. Louis's KTVI won for station excellence). KMBC also won both for best AM newscast and best PM newscast.

In journalistic excellence, stations in the No. 32 market more than held their own with their No. 21-market rivals across the state. WDAF took two feature Emmys. KMBC won for weather, education and breaking news, while KSHB shared an Emmy for investigative reporting. Interestingly, KCTV-5, which has banked much of its reputation in the past on being "live, late-breaking" and "investigative," collected Emmys for its business, political and environmental reporting. Very nice ... just not what I expected!

Overall, Metro Sports — which led all local stations with 19 nominations — took home 8 Emmys, while KMBC won 6 Emmys, KCTV 4, WDAF 4, KSHB 3, and there were also Emmys given out to the city government channel KCCG as well as KC's own PlattForm Advertising, "The Steve & Kathy Show" and TVB favorites Jennifer Plas, Meagan Flynn, Michelle Davidson-Bratcher, aka "The Unreal Housewives of Kansas City."

Here's the full list of local winners:

Newscast-Morning/Daytime 1-49 KMBC Troy Diggs, Chris Meggs, Jason Ridder

Newscast-Evening 1-49 KMBC Dennis Sulsberger

General Assignment Report-No Time Limit WDAF John Holt, Mike Lewis

Breaking News KMBC Sherrie Brown

Investigative KSHB (tie) Keith King 

Feature News Report-Serious Feature WDAF (tie) Leslie Carto, Mike Lewis

Business Consumer KCTV Dana Wright, Chris Koeberl, Ken Ullery

Education/Schools KMBC Maria Antonia, Tim Twyman

Science/Environment KCTV Ash-har Quraishi, Chris Koeberl, Ken Ullery

Politics/Government KCTV Ash-har Quraishi, Ken Ullery, Chris Henao

Religion The Steve & Kathy Show Steve Gray

Sports – Story KSHB Mike Marusarz

Sports – Program Metro Sports              Stephen Spiegel, Charlie Parker

Weather KMBC Bryan Busby, Lisa Teachman, Johnny Rowlands

Documentary – Cultural Metro Sports Stephen Spiegel 

Interview/Discussion Metro Sports Marcia Williams-Schmidt, Chris Gough,Dave Neilson, Herbie Teope

Public/Current/Community Affairs-Special KCCG Joe Camoriano

Informational PlattForm Adv Michael Mackie, Jason Kerschner

News Promo – Single Spot KCTV Sara Visomirski, Mark Olson

News Promo – Campaign Image KSHB Jason Smith, Randy Thurman

News Promo – Image Promo Metro Sports (tie) John Kekeisen, Ed Dec

NEWS EXCELLENCE KMBC Sherrie Brown

Editor – Program/Program Feature Metro Sports Erik Ashel

Editor – Sports Metro Sports Erik Ashel

Photographer/Program <>Metro Sports Erik Ashel

Photographer/Sports (Single Camera) <>Metro Sports Erik Ashel

Advanced Media – Arts/Entertainment David Hanklynn Prods. Jennifer Plass, Meagan Flynn, Michelle Davidson-Bratcher, Metro Productions

Advanced Media – Informational/Instruc WDAF Damon Bryant, Daniel Nelson

Advanced Media – Interactivity WDAF Damon Bryant, Daniel Nelson, Michele Allen