NEWS! Cornell, Birth of the American University wins NYSBA award
WSKG TV Producer Brian Frey has won “Best Documentary” from the New York State Broadcasters Association. Frey won for Cornell: Birth of the American University, which first premiered on WSKG TV in December 2004. The award was announced during the NYSBA Broadcast Awards Banquet at the Sagamore Resort Hotel on Lake George, NY on June 28, 2005.

In October of 1868 the first students of a new university began the rugged hike up East Hill in Ithaca, NY. They would be the first students of the college that would change the way higher education was taught in the United States. Cornell: Birth of the American University chronicles the founding of Cornell University, focusing on two men, Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, whose individual dreams and ambitions would come together to create one of the great institutions of learning in the world. This one hour documentary includes rare photos and film footage from the Cornell University Archives.

Cornell: Birth of the American University is produced by WSKG's Brian Frey who also produced the
Emmy-Award winning documentaries The Flood of '35 and Glenn Curtiss: The Forgotten Eagle.