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New England Legends is a 2020 winner of a Telly Award
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Jeff Belanger’s New England Legends Television Series Wins 2020 Telly Award

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“Legendary Road Trip” episode earns Bronze medal for Television General Entertainment SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – June 1, 2020 – Selected from more than 12,000 entries, the “Legendary Road Trip” episode of the New England Legends television series has been recognized with a 2020 Telly Award, considered the world’s largest honor for video and television content across all screens. The Telly adds to the list of awards and nominations already garnered by the New England Legends production. “Legendary Road Trip” first aired on PBS affiliate WGBY in Springfield, Massachusetts, on October 31, 2019, and has since gone on to air on other PBS stations as well as the Amazon Prime video streaming service. The episode earned Bronze for the General Television category at this year’s Telly Awards. “We’re thrilled to have our work recognized by such a prestigious body of judges from our industry,” said Jeff Belanger, New England Legends writer, host, and Executive Producer. “In a landscape of shifting media, we always serve the story first and do whatever we can to take the viewer inside the legends.” New England Legends is created and produced by Jeff Belanger and Tony Dunne. The program debuted in 2013 and has since grown into an on-going series. The television series has earned an Aurora Award, two Emmy nominations, and now a Telly Award. “This is a win for independent producers,” added New England Legends director and Executive Producer, Tony Dunne. “From the start, this project has been a labor of love. To earn the Telly Award this year validates all of the hard work. We love telling these great, regional stories.” About The Telly Awards: The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents. Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council—an industry body of over 200 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multi-screen industry The Telly Awards celebrates. Partners of The Telly Awards include NAB, Stash Magazine, and Digiday, VidCon and Social Media Week. About New England Legends: In 2013, New England Legends began as an independent television series created and produced by Jeff Belanger and Tony Dunne. Since then, it’s grown into a Web site, weekly podcast, active Facebook community of legend hunters, and movement to chronicle every legend in New England one story at a time. Visit the Web site at: ournewenglandlegends.com

New England Legends Episode 7 - Legendary Road Trip
New England Legends, News, Views, & Interviews

Emmy-Nominated New England Legends Takes a Legendary Road Trip through the Northeast in its PBS Return

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – October 21, 2019 – New England’s highways and backroads are full of roadside oddities, strange tales, and odd history. Some of those roads lead to legendary and cursed places like cemeteries and locales where aliens, monsters, and ghosts are said to lurk. In time for Halloween, PBS affiliate WGBY in Springfield, Massachusetts, and Vermont PBS will be broadcasting the New England Legends series including the latest episode, “Legendary Road Trip.” In “Legendary Road Trip: Exploring Wicked-Strange Ghosts, Graves, and Roadside Oddities,” legend hunter Jeff Belanger explores New England in search of the devil; unique and even cursed headstones; an out-of-this-world UFO encounter with Betty and Barney Hill; a lake monster that’s turned pop-culture; and the hidden-away ruins of the home where Nelly Butler’s ghost led to America’s first documented haunting. “There are so many signs and waymarks along New England roads that we sometimes ignore them—especially if we’re local,” said host, writer, and producer Jeff Belanger. “In ‘Legendary Road Trip,’ we hit a bunch of stories and explore the history behind the legends. We’re always exploring how we got to this moment in time.” New England Legends is a joint venture between Executive Producers Jeff Belanger and Tony Dunne. The two have been working together since 2009 when Dunne wrote and produced the documentary Things That Go Bump in the Night: Tales of Haunted New England for PBS. Belanger was featured prominently in that first documentary, which went on to national acclaim. “In ‘Legendary Road Trip,’ we wanted to explore more stories throughout the region to give more local flavor and flair to these legends,” said director and executive producer Tony Dunne. “We logged well over 2,000 miles on this episode, but we’re thrilled with the opportunity to finally share these strange tales of New England.” Belanger and Dunne are currently working on future episodes of New England Legends. In addition to the PBS air dates, the entire series is now available on Amazon Prime’s video streaming service. The New England Legends series has been nominated twice for an Emmy under the “Magazine Program/Special” category. Since August of 2017, Belanger and his co-host Ray Auger have been producing the weekly New England Legends podcast which has been downloaded over one million times. The podcast is available for free on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and all of the other podcast streaming services. “Legendary Road Trip” premieres Thursday, October 31, 8:00 PM on Vermont PBS, and on Thursday, October 31, 7:30 PM on WGBY in Springfield. Watch the trailer.

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