Awards
WCHS has won numerous regional and national awards recognizing the station's news department. In 2011, the news team won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for breaking news coverage. The award came from the station's coverage of the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster in Montcoal, W.Va.
The news team won a national Murrow Award in 2007 for continuing coverage of the Sago Mine disaster.
WCHS radio news has also won numerous regional Murrow Awards, including a 2011 award for coverage of Sen. Robert C. Byrd's death.
WCHS was one of five stations nominated by the National Association of Broadcasters for the 2011 Marconi Award for news/talk station of the year.
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