The Georgia Association of Broadcasters is pleased to announce the selection of individual finalists for the 2018 GABBY Awards, which will be presented on October 20, 2018 at the Westin Savannah Harbor. The GABBY Awards banquet will be the marquee event of this year’s summer conference known as GABCON.
The radio finalists listed below will receive either a GABBY or Merit award for broadcasting excellence in various categories (listed alphabetically by market):
WGAU (Athens)
Abby Jessen
Amber Henderson
Jerry Arnold
Macie Banks
Pete de Graaff
WUGA (Athens)
Abbie Thaxton
Chris Shupe
Garrett Michael
Jed May
Jimmy Sanders
Matt Goren
Michael Cardin
Michael Thomas
Georgia Public Broadcasting (Atlanta)
GPB News
Olivia Reingold
On Second Thought staff
WABE (Atlanta)
Dennis O’Hayer
Stephannie Stokes
WABE Digital Team
WABE News Staff
WAFS (Atlanta)
Dana Barrett
Nicholas Bean
WCFO (Atlanta)
Dan Watkins
Raj Verma
Steve Cole
WGKA (Atlanta)
Joey Wenzler
WMLB (Atlanta)
John Lemley
WVEE-FM (Atlanta)
James Fairey
WBHF (Cartersville)
Barry King
Alan Sanders
Mike Clark
WJRB (Young Harris)
Jeff Batten
WCGQ (Columbus)
Chelsea Hudson
Damon Free
Dave Arwood
Mike Kelly
WDAK (Columbus)
Scott Miller
WTTI (Dalton)
Tom Phillips
WDUN (Gainesville)
Caleb Hutchins
Joel Williams
Mitch Clarke
Scott Kimbler
WLHR (Lavonia)
Andrew Hornick
WBML-WCEH (Macon)
Ben Sandifer
Bill Boys
Finn Sandifer
Local Cast “And Then There Were None”
WGJK (Rome)
Kevin Karel
WRBF (Rome)
Jeff McDermott
WTCQ (Vidalia)
WTCQ Staff
WVOP (Vidalia)
Chester Proctor
Georgia Farm Monitor (Statewide)
Ray D’Alessio
Georgia News Network (Statewide)
Matt Cook