TORONTO – Earl Seitz and Dave Biro will be honoured with 2011 RTNDA Lifetime Achievement Awards in the BC Region, the Association of Electronic Journalists announced.
The Lifetime Achievement Award was created in 2002 to recognize individuals who have distinguished themselves through outstanding service and continued excellence during the course of their career in broadcast journalism.
Seitz has been a hockey play-by-play announcer and covered virtually every sport in his long career, including the Paralympics and wheelchair sports. He has also mentored many sports commentators who have gone on to national networks. While he’s had the opportunity to move to larger centres and broadcast on a national level, he instead chose to stay in Kamloops and has helped CFJC Television become one of the brightest small-market stations in the country.
Biro is the assignment editor at ‘A’ Channel in Victoria. His career spans 30 years in radio and television, and his first time behind the microphone was in 1973 when he broke into radio as a news reader and beat reporter at CFVR in Abbotsford. A former news director at several stations, he has also taught broadcast journalism at the BC Institute of Technology and Langara College.
The awards will be presented at the RTNDA British Columbia Regional Awards Banquet in Vancouver on May 28, 2011.
