PBS Reno Earns Six 2026 Telly Awards
RENO, NV (MAY 27, 2026) – On May 19, 2026, the winners of the 47th Annual Telly Awards were announced and PBS Reno is honored to have earned six Telly Awards – two Silver and four Bronze – for numerous local productions that came to fruition over the past year:
ARTEFFECTS: The Mankillers
General – Documentary
Short Form (under 40)
PBS Reno Spotlight: Jill and Par Tolles
General – Documentary
Short Form (under 40)
ARTEFFECTS: Connor Fogal
General – DEI
Wild Nevada Episode #810
General – Travel & Tourism
PBS Reno STEM Works:
Truckee Meadows Water Authority
General – Recruitment
PBS Reno ARTS: Kristoffer Polaha
General – Video Podcast
“PBS Reno has received 14 awards this past month; eight Communicator Awards and now, six Telly Awards,” said Megan Myers, PBS Reno Vice President of Content. “These honors highlight not only the extraordinary talent within PBS Reno, but also the meaningful impact our programming, education, and outreach have throughout our region. Together, we continue to Entertain Your Curiosity and elevate the stories that matter.”
The Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television across all screens and is judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming networks, production companies. This year’s winners include Paramount TV, Warner Brothers Discovery, FOX Entertainment, MoMA, Mayo Clinic, Sony Music, TED, Al Jazeera, Variety, PETA, United Talent Agency, People Inc., Olympic Channel, AccuWeather, ABC News, Dude Perfect, Washington Commanders, Harvard Business School, Modern Post, and more.
“Video has never been more contested, more creative, or more consequential than it is right now,” said Amanda Needham, Managing Director of The Telly Awards. “The Telly Awards has had a front-row seat to this industry for 47 years, and today’s entertainment is happening in multiple formats, across every screen, and at every budget level.”
The 47th Annual Telly Awards received more than 13,000 entries from across the globe and top video and television content producers. Winners were chosen by The Telly Awards Judging Council, which features more than 250 experts across the world of video. This year welcomed judges including Tamara Kruger, Head of Content and Sponsorships, Google; Janet Graham Borba, Executive VP of Production, HBO; Phil Cook, Chief Marketing Officer, WNBA; and Andrea Wertheim, Senior Manager Post Production, Netflix. The full list of winners can be found here.
About PBS Reno
In fiscal year 2024-2025, PBS Reno reached 592,189 monthly viewers in northern and central Nevada and northeastern California across several platforms including three broadcast channels (PBS Reno 5.1, Reno Create 5.2, and PBS KIDS on PBS Reno 5.3), a YouTube channel, YouTube TV, online, livestreams, and digital platforms. PBS Reno provides PBS national programming and award-earning, locally-produced content, with many local segments posted weekly to PBS Reno’s YouTube channel. PBSReno.org provides engaging interactive content, including the video portal at watch.PBSReno.org that streams all locally-produced content and most PBS national content. PBS Reno serves students, teachers, parents and caregivers through immersive educational services including Curiosity Classroom workshops that bring classroom lessons to life with standards-based lessons and activities. Through the support of local corporations and foundations, as well as thousands of individual members, PBS Reno has been delivering public television and educational services to the communities it serves since September 29, 1983.
About The Telly Awards
The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 13,000 entries from all 50 states and five continents. Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 250 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multi-screen industry The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include AWN, View Conference, Skwigly, ACM SIGGRAPH, Seed & Spark, Kinema, The Gotham, Portrait, NAB, RunwayML AIFF, ReelAbilities Film Festival, Film Fatales, FWD-Doc, NYWIFT, Stash, Production Hub, Video Consortium, SeriesFest and Green The Bid.
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