For more information, please call 757.889.9358. Click here to download the 2008 Pioneer Awards registration form.
The WHRO Pioneer Awards are given to honor individuals or organizations who have made significant and lasting contributions in the fields of public broadcasting and education telecommunications, and who have improved the quality of life in the Hampton Roads community.
2004 Pioneer Awards Recipients
Hunter B. Andrews and Vincent J. Thomas
2005 Pioneer Awards Recipients
Gerald L. Baliles and G. William Whitehurst
2006 Pioneer Awards Recipients
David R. and Susan S. Goode
2007 Pioneer Awards Recipients
Raymond B. Bottom, Jr., Dorothy Rouse-Bottom and Dr. Robert M. Rubin
Proceeds from the Pioneer Awards support WHRO’s local programming and education initiatives, and enable us to produce programs like “Wired for Life,” the award-winning program on early childhood care and education in Hampton Roads and broadcast on WHRO-TV15.
In 1957, Norfolk Public Schools began an experiment in teaching by television. Four years later, Vincent J. Thomas and Hunter B. Andrews, School Board Chairs of Norfolk and Hampton, established WHRO-TV by a handshake agreement – and the FCC awarded a license to operate channel 15, Virginia’s first non-commercial, educational television station.
No one could have imagined just how far that handshake would reach, but every school system, student, educator and citizen of Hampton Roads have benefited from it. Today, WHRO is a vibrant public service media company that promotes education, culture and citizenship through a variety of telecommunications services. Every day, thousands of viewers and listeners tune in to 89.5 WHRV FM, 90.3 WHRO FM, WHRO TV15, WHRO DT 15.1, WHRO KIDS, WHRO CREATE, and the WHRO Radio Reading Service. Owned by 17 local school divisions, WHRO delivers educational and new media services to 286,000 students and 25,000 educators per month as well. WHRO continues to employ creativity and technology to engage, enlighten and entertain the citizens of Hampton Roads.
RESERVATION DEADLINE
Friday, February 8, 2008
Virginia Beach Convention Center
Ballroom
1000 19th Street
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
Directions from the Peninsula
• I-64 East to Norfolk/Virginia Beach
• Take Exit 284A to merge onto I-264 East toward the Virginia Beach Oceanfront
• At the end of the interstate, turn right at the first light onto Parks Avenue
• Cross 19th Street to park in Lots 1 and 2
Complimentary shuttle service available
For more information, please call 757.889.9358.
Click here to download the 2008 Pioneer Awards registration form.
