Madison Award for TVW Founders

At noon today in Seattle Denny Heck and Stan Marshburn will receive the Washington Coalition for Open Government’s James Madison Award.  Their creation of TVW “brought government into people’s living rooms,” as stated in a Seattle Times editorial.  Here’s a link to that editorial.

Many people don’t realize TVW is a model for the nation, there are only a handful of states with robust state public affairs networks.  Washington has TVW because Denny and Stan flat made it happen.  Because of these two, 3.5+ million Washingtonians have daily TV access to state government deliberations and 61,000 hours of web archives of the same.  It’s a remarkable accomplishment that should be recognized.

At the same event State Auditor Brian Sonntag will receive WACOG’s James Anderson Award for his long-time advocacy for open government.

TVW will tape today’s awards ceremony and televise it Monday at 7 & 10 p.m. — available online before it’s televised.

Tags: Brian Sonntag, Denny Heck, Open Government, Stan Marshburn