Exeter TV Receives National Award for Overall Excellence

Exeter, NH - June 10th, 2025: Exeter TV received the 2025 Hometown Media Award for Overall Excellence from the Alliance for Community Media Foundation. The awards program was established to honor and promote community media, community radio, and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels.

Creating Community Through Community Media

The Overall Excellence award recognizes access organizations for their overall operational activities and programming efforts. The award shows that Exeter TV, which operates both public access and government access channels, meets the highest standards in the community media industry. Some of the achievements leading to the award include:

• Gavel to Gavel coverage of nearly 150 boards, committees, and commissions, allowing residents to stay informed about important decisions taking place with their local government.
• 26 editions of Exeter TV’s news magazine show, The Exeter Biweekly Report, airing every other Friday with important news from town departments and committees, updates from local area nonprofits, and important community stories.
• The Meeting Minutes series which takes hours long meetings and summarizes key points in digestible three to five minute online short videos to make complex government processes more accessible and understandable for the general public

“Exeter TV has always been dedicated to trying to be a great community resource, but we really hit our stride in 2024,” says Bob Glowacky, Media Communications Coordinator for the Town of Exeter. He went on to explain how Exeter TV staff worked very hard over the last year to dive deeper into storytelling and high production quality to make content that really connected with residents. Staff saw views and engagement grow over 2024. Committees and town departments started talking about Exeter TV and how the department can help the town’s communication needs. It created a lot of extra work for staff as the number of projects increased and the scope of the projects expanded.

“Winning this award just goes to prove that leaning into the creativity of your staff and the local stories in your community is a recipe for success. We’re pleased to share this award with the townspeople who make our work possible,” said Bob Glowacky.

Each year, nearly one thousand entries are submitted. These entries, or programs, are submitted and evaluated on several factors resulting in over 100 award winners. A panel of over 150 judges from the industry evaluate the entries. Awards are presented to the most creative programs that address community needs, develop diverse community involvement, challenge conventional commercial television formats, and move viewers to experience television in a different way.

“The Hometown Media Awards celebrate both the excellence of work and the diversity of media that appears on community channels being produced around the country. The ACM Foundation is proud of their achievement and of how they represent their communities in their work,” said Mike Wassenaar, President & CEO, Alliance for Community Media.

Exeter TV staff head to the Alliance for Community Media’s national conference in Boston where they will receive the award alongside other community media leaders from across the country at the Hometown Media Awards ceremony on Wednesday, June 25th, 2025.

For more information about Exeter TV, visit their website at exeternh.tv.

About the Alliance for Community Media (www.allcommunitymedia.org)

Founded in 1979, the Alliance for Community Media is a national, non-profit membership organization committed to ensuring access to electronic media for all people. The Alliance for Community Media carries forth its mission by educating, advocating and acting as a resource for the more than 3,000 Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) cable channels nationwide.