{"id":886174,"date":"2026-10-18T02:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/886174\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T02:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T02:56:08","slug":"watch-bell-awards-2026-on-wlky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/886174\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH | Bell Awards 2026 on WLKY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">WLKY is honored to introduce you to the 2026 Bell Award recipients.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">On Oct. 8, the honorees were celebrated at historic Churchill Downs.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Ten individuals received the prestigious Bell Award, a bell cast in the likeness of the ship\u2019s bell on the Belle of Louisville that symbolizes answering the call to service.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Thanks to the generosity of the Republic Bank Foundation, each recipient was awarded a $500 grant to the charity of their choice.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">In addition to the Bell Awards, two teenagers were honored for their service.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Each received a $2,500 scholarship.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">Mayor Craig Greenberg presented the Mayor\u2019s Spirit of Louisville Award, and Churchill Downs presented the John Asher Spirit Award.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">Watch our full Bell Awards ceremony in the video player at the top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOUISVILLE, Ky. \u2014 WLKY is honored to introduce you to the 2026 Bell Award recipients. On Oct. 8,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[371708,88,92],"class_list":["post-886174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bell-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}