• TVNewsCheck, Tuesday, August 23, 2011 1:01 PM

With a dedicated investigative unit and a fierce commitment to enterprise reporting, a family-owned TV station in the 27th largest market -- Indianapolis -- has emerged as a model for large market television journalism, reports Diana Marszalek.

WTHR, an NBC affiliate owned by the two-station Dispatch Broadcast Group, has won this year's RTDNA's Edward R. Murrow Award for overall excellence by a large-market station, plus DuPont and Peabody awards.

"If all we do is cover the late-breaking news then we are rapidly making ourselves irrelevant in the minds of our viewers," says news director Keith Connors. Oh yes, WTHR's news is also number-one in the ratings.

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