The Florida Associated Press named the university's "UCF Knightly News" Best College TV Newscast for 2007.

The students of the 30-minutes television news show received the award at a luncheon held last week. The annual competition is open to all college newscasts in Florida.

The Knightly News is a weekly show produced entirely by students in the Radio-Television Broadcast Journalism track in the Nicholson School of Communication.

Professor George Bagley was the faculty member/news director for students during the term of this show that was submitted. The show was judged on its journalistic content and organization, which comes exclusively from those students.

The show airs live each Friday during the term at 2:00 p.m. and airs tape-delay on the UCF Channel at various times throughout the week, as well as on Bright House Network Cable systems in the metropolitan Orlando area each Tuesday evening at 9:00 p.m. It is produced in the RTV studio. The show submitted to the contest aired live on Feb. 9, 2007 and included coverage of the devastating tornadoes that hit the state earlier that week.

Student Diana Bosch, also won second place in Best Long Light Feature radio news story category and picked up one of two competitive $500 scholarships from the organization.

"Needless to say, we're pretty proud of our students for this accomplishment," Bagley said.