2024 Hometown Media Awards
We wrapped up June with a bang! The final week took us to sunny San Jose for the annual ACM National Conference, where hundreds of amazing organizations like CMAC came together to share best practices and brilliant ideas. We didn’t just leave inspired—we also brought home the prestigious National Hometown Media Award for Overall Excellence in Public, Education, and Government Access!
Want to know more about the Hometown Media Awards? Follow the link below.
Hometown Media Awards Background
The Hometown Media Awards is the Foundation of the ACM’s yearly awards program. It was established to honor and promote community media, community radio, and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels.
Each year, nearly one thousand entries are submitted. These entries are submitted and evaluated on several factors resulting in over 100 award winners. A panel of judges from the industry evaluates the entries. Awards are presented to the most creative programs that address community needs, develop diverse community involvement, challenge conventional commercial television formats, and move viewers to experience television in a different way.
2023 Winners
Overall Excellence in Public, Education, and Government Access
CMAC Fresno/Clovis
CMAC High School Football
Sports Coverage Live Competition – Student
CMAC Fresno/ Clovis/ McLane High School
Fentanyl: The American Crisis
Public Health Programming – Student
CMAC Fresno/Clovis
Isabella Riley
El Poder of a Classroom
Underserved Voices – Student
CMAC Fresno/Clovis
Daniela Maciel Navarro
Endangered Language
Underserved Voices – Independent Producer
CMAC Fresno/Clovis
Jennifer Robin
Media Representations & Why They Matter
Instructional/Training – Access Center Professional
CMAC Fresno/Clovis
Natalie Nigg
Download the CMAC App
Access Program Promo – Access Center Professional
CMAC Fresno/Clovis
Kyle Lowe, Ben Cruz
