May 28, 2025 |Arts, Awards, LCTV News, News

LCTV Co-op Students Win 2025 Hometown Media Award

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Lynn Community Television co-op students took home the Best of Documentary Award for their project recapping the 2024 Beyond Walls Art Tour

Lynn Community Television (LCTV) has received a 2025 Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media Foundation. The winning project was produced by LCTV’s co-op students from Lynn Tech for the 2024-25 school year, Keylli Corado & Kimberly Esteban. 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.  Proceeds go to the ACM Foundation which is exclusively used for facilitating, preserving and promoting education in community media.

Keylli and Kimberly came out on top in the student division in the documentary category for their piece entitled “2024 Beyond Walls Street Art Tour”. Beyond Walls has been working since 2017 to activate public spaces to strengthen communities through art, with their large scale murals being the most recognizable aspect of their work. In August 2024 a group of 5 artists worked on murals at Bent Water Brewery, the former Garelic Farms building, Central Square, Lynn Community Health Center pharmacy, & Virginia Barton Early Childhood Education Center. The duo worked under the supervision of our News Director Dani Vittori to conceive, record, and edit the project themselves.

The Lynn Tech Co-op program has been an integral part of community media in Lynn for 20+ years. Every year we receive two students in their final year from Lynn Tech, who work for us instead of going to shop. This provides students with real-world experience in their field while providing them further instruction than they may be able to receive in the classroom. LCTV is always proud of the work these students produce, and immediately the work Kim and Keylli produced was of great quality. When it came time to submit to the Hometown Media Awards we wanted to make sure to highlight their work, and out of 3 submissions theirs came out on top.

This latest news continues a tradition of award-winning content at LCTV. Since our incorporation in 2015, Lynn Community Television has earned over a dozen awards. Just six months ago LCTV was recognized at a regional level for two videos we produced as well as our weekly newscast. You can read more about those last three awards by clicking here.

“Earning a Hometown Media Award is a huge honor for our community media center. This win confirms that we are producing some of the highest quality content in the country, not just the North Shore. It’s also amazing to me because it was the students that won, proving once again that Lynn Tech and this city produce talent that shines at the national level.

LCTV’s Director of Operations Riley

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.

The last piece Keylli and Kimberly worked on was a documentary on High Rock Tower, which gives a brief overview of the Tower’s long and interesting history. Please click here to watch this 10-minute documentary, “Echoes From The Tower”.

About the Alliance for Community Media

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.

For more information please visit www.allcommunitymedia.org

About Lynn Community Television

Lynn Community Television (LCTV) is a public access center providing the public with opportunities to learn, use and create media. Our goal is to provide the Lynn community with access to express their First Amendment Rights via broadcast media, promote local activities & news, and support creativity. Lynn Community Television aims to be everyone’s voice and connection to your neighbors and beyond.

We have the tools to help the community to create studio and field television or web productions, graphic designs, audio productions, documentaries, and journalistic endeavors. LCTV membership is available to all local residents and non-profit organizations, and gives those that join access to our equipment, studio, and more!

For more information please visit www.LynnTV.org