{"id":575237,"date":"2026-07-30T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575237\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:50:10","slug":"audacy-wsu-eagle-radio-take-top-prizes-in-2026-kab-awards-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575237\/","title":{"rendered":"Audacy, WSU, Eagle Radio Take Top Prizes In 2026 KAB Awards. | Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kansas Association of Broadcasters\u2019 annual <a href=\"https:\/\/kab.net\/station-awards\/station-award-winners\/\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">awards for excellence<\/a> in broadcasting have honored radio\u2019s best in the Sunflower State in 2026, with Station of the Year awards given to Wichita State University news\/talk KMUW (89.1) Wichita (large market), KCD Enterprises news\/talk KGGF-AM (690) Coffeyville (medium), and Kansas Broadcast Company\u2019s \u201cRockIt 102.5\u201d KLOE Goodland (small).<\/p>\n<p>Audacy won one of three KAB Awards, including Best Morning Show, Large Market for country \u201c106.5 The Wolf\u201d WDAF Kansas City\u2019s \u201cJenny and Jagger in the Morning.\u201d Audacy also took home the Large Market Sports Play-by-Play award for \u201cWichita State Double Overtime Win\u201d with Mike Kennedy calling the plays for basketball\u2019s WSU Shockers on classic hits KEYN (103.5) Wichita, while rhythmic CHR \u201cPower 93.5\u201d KDGS Wichita\u2019s Zeb Campbell won for DJ Personality Aircheck.<\/p>\n<p>Eagle Radio took home eight awards, with Best Morning Show, Medium Market going to classic hits KAYS (1400 AM\/94.3 FM on K232FJ) Hays\u2019 Jeff Leiker, host of the \u201cThe Morning Blend.\u201d Among Eagle Radio\u2019s other KAB awards were: first place in Complete Sportscast to hot AC \u201cMix 1033\u201d KJLS Hays\u2019 24-year voice of the Fort Hays State University Tigers, Gerard Wellbrock; and first for Special Program, an interview with Spin Doctors, also given to KAYS\u2019 Leiker.<\/p>\n<p>The small market Best Morning Show award was given to Shannon Towns and Evan Wedel for \u201cMornings with Shannon and Evan\u201d on Eagle Media \u201cEagle Country 100.7\u201d KHOK Great Bend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kansas Association of Broadcasters\u2019 annual awards for excellence in broadcasting have honored radio\u2019s best in the Sunflower&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,710,61,60,278,43],"class_list":["post-575237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-free","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}