The Kansas Association of Broadcasters recently announced the 2013 KAB Television & Radio Award Winners. KSNC-TV in Great Bend was awarded “Non-Metro Television Station of the Year.”
KSNC also won awards for news, commercial production and promotions. These awards included first place in the “Single Topic Event News Coverage,” category (Mikayla Lewis); first place in the “In-Depth News Reporting,” category (Lewis); first place and honorable mention in the “Commercial,” category (Terry Weathers and Mike Hesher); second place in the “Commercial Series,” category (Weathers and Hesher); second place and honorable mention in the “Station Promotion Announcement,” category (Weathers and Hesher).  
KSNC-TV competed against similar size stations from across the state. KSNC is a bureau of KSNW-TV in Wichita, owned and operated by Linn Media, a local multimedia company that operates or services 43 television stations and seven digital channels in 23 U.S. markets, and a diverse portfolio of web sites, apps and mobile products.