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Ben <\/span>Yonker, Producer and Director for Ball State University Media Services, recently won an Emmy for his production of <\/span>Sunny Days: Meet the Founding Mothers of Ball State PBS. <\/span><\/i>Yonker was in the industry long before he graduated from college and has been a part of several productions. Yonker and other members of Ball State University Media Services produced a documentary commemorating the 50<\/span>th<\/span> anniversary of what is now Ball State PBS.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The film focuses on the beginnings of PBS. PBS in Muncie started with a small group of women with young children who simply wanted access to Sesame Street for their kids. The small group of women fought tirelessly to bring awareness and support for the PBS station and successfully achieved their goal.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Yonker was able to m<\/span>eet the small<\/span>\u00a0group of women who raised awareness for the PBS station.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c<\/span>That\u2019s actually one of the most rewarding things about working in film and television,\u201d he said. \u201cYou get to meet interesting people and be exposed to the things they\u2019re passionate about, and most of the time those are things you wouldn\u2019t normally get to experience yourself.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When asked about his experience as an Emmy award winner, Yonker said he was not anticipating the win at all. In fact, Yonker was attending a concert.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cI chose not to attend the awards ceremony this year since it was out of town on Father\u2019s Day weekend. I was at a concert in Indy that evening and I received a congratulatory text from a friend \u2014 that\u2019s how I found out I had won,\u201d he said. \u201cHonestly, I didn\u2019t mind missing out since I hate giving speeches! So, it turned out to be a pretty nice night!\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Ever since Yonker\u2019s big win, he says nothing has changed.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWe have such a great program here at Ball State with so many talented people. Because of that, Emmy nominations are common, and wins are not unusual. So aside from people stopping by to offer their congratulations, not much has changed.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Yonker humbly accepted his award and has since then brought awareness to Muncie\u2019s PBS station on campus. If you ever run into the Emmy award winner, be sure to say congratulations!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ben Yonker, Producer and Director for Ball State University Media Services, recently won an Emmy for his production of Sunny Days: Meet the Founding Mothers of Ball State PBS. Yonker was in the industry long before he graduated from college and has been a part of several productions. Yonker and other members of Ball State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-employee","category-kudos"],"yoast_head":"\n