South Florida PBS Announces Seven 2022 Suncoast Emmy® Awards

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South Florida PBS (WPBT & WXEL) is honored to announce seven 2022 Suncoast Emmy® Awards for programs produced by South Florida PBS staff and partners. Winners were announced at the 2022 Suncoast Emmy® Awards gala in Orlando, Florida on December 10, 2022.

“We are very honored to have been recognized for our work and particularly proud of the award for Diversity/Equity/Inclusion in short form content as it is a significant validation of South Florida PBS’ commitment to these goals,” stated Dolores Fernandez Alonso, president and CEO of South Florida PBS.

The Suncoast Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is the standard-bearer for excellence in the television industry and the gatekeeper of the prestigious regional EMMY® Awards in the Suncoast Region. The Suncoast Chapter represents the best and brightest television and media professionals from all disciplines of the industry and from all the Suncoast region’s television markets.

Below is a list of the winning entries:

South Florida PBS Original Productions

Diversity/Equity/Inclusion – Short Form Content 

Minorities in Shark Sciences (MISS) is Making Waves 

Jacquelyn Hurtado, Sergio Figuera

Magazine Program

Check, Please! South Florida # 1905 

Nathalia Lemos, Joyce Belloise, Michelle Bernstein

South Florida PBS Partner Productions

Arts/Entertainment – Short Form Content

The Perpetual Loop 

Rodrigo Arauz, Ed Talavera, Dennis Scholl WPBT-TV, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Are You Down? 

Juan Matos, Ed Talavera, Ellie Konn, Dennis Scholl WPBT-TV, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Nostalgia – News 

1402 Pork n’ Bean Blue 

Juan Matos, Amanda Bradley, Javier Labrador, Dennis Scholl

Documentary Historical 

Finding Tyler 

Christopher Brannan, Diana Reichenbach, Dennis Scholl

Nostalgia – Long Form Content 

The Grand Lady 

Michael Anderson, Fabian Cardenas, Mia Laurenzo

South Florida PBS would like to congratulate all the award recipients for their hard work and dedication to their craft.

If you don’t have access to South Florida PBS, you can livestream all our programs on

our websites found in the links below:

WPBT Live streaming can be viewed here: www.wpbt2.org/live-tv/

WXEL Live streaming can be viewed here: www.wxel.org/live-tv/


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