Awards

Award-Winning Work

Our work is devoted to helping you connect to what matters: friends and family, customers and coworkers, entertainment, job markets, health care, educational resources, and more. Kudos from customers is more than enough to keep us going, but we do appreciate awards and recognition from outside our local service areas. In 2019, BEK was recognized with three BroadbandNow awards: Top Internet Speeds Nationwide, Top 3 Fastest Internet Providers in North Dakota, and #1 Fastest Fiber Provider in North Dakota.

Here are some of the regional and national awards BEK Communications Cooperative has won for our efforts:

BEK Communications

2024 TechND - North Dakota Technology Champion - John Nagel

2023 NTCA Cyber Champion

2023 TechND Premier Technology Business

2023 CyberCon Chairman's Award For Excellence - John Nagel

2022 Business of the Year, Mandan Progress Organization

2020 BroadbandNow award for being the #1 Fastest Fiber Provider in North Dakota

2019 BroadbandNow award for being the #1 Fastest Fiber Provider in North Dakota
2019 BroadbandNow award for Top 3 Fastest Internet Providers in North Dakota
2019 BroadbandNow award for Top Internet Speeds Nationwide
2019 NTCA Smart Rural Community Gig-Capable Provider

2019 NTCA's Marketing Excellence Award to BEK Communications in the category of Broadband Advertising - First Runner-Up

2016 NTCA GIG Certification, certified to have deployed 100% Gig capable infrastructure

2014 NTCA TeleChoice Award, publication of Cooperative Annual Report

2013 Trailblazer Award, Smart Rural Community initiative, leader in the use of broadband to build community strength, conquer distance, import and export goods, services and knowledge

2012 NTCA TeleChoice Award for best website for products and services

2012 Vernon Galaxy Award recognizing an outstanding marketing campaign for new IP services

2011 Calix Innovation Award, outstanding marketing campaign for new IP services

2010 TelcoTV Vision Award for the most innovative and visionary way of offering three channels of exclusive local content

2008 Cornerstone Award from the Broadband Properties Summit recognizing achievements in BEK's deployment of advanced broadband networks in rural North Dakota

2004 Pioneered Fiber-To-The-Home, Rural subsrcibers in North Dakota

BEK TV

2024 Bismarck Tribune's Best of the Best, BEK TV as Best Local Television Station

2024 Bismarck Tribune's Best of the Best, Lori Hinz as Best TV Personality

2024 Eric Sevareid Awards for Journalism Excellence. BEK Sports swept the Small Market TV Sports Play-by-Play Category for the tenth consecutive year

2023 Bismarck Tribune's Best of the Best, BEK TV as Best Local Television Station

2023 Eric Sevareid Awards for Journalism Excellence. BEK Sports swept the Small Market TV Sports Play-by-Play Category for the nineth consecutive year

2023 Award of Merit in the Documentary/Special category - Ladies of Another View: My Hometown - Fort Totten

2022 Bismarck Tribune's Best of the Best, BEK TV as Best Local Television Station

2022 Scott Loerch and Jordan Hassler received "Award of Merit" from the North Dakota High School Coaches Association for coverage of high school athletics

2022 Eric Sevareid Awards for Journalism Excellence. BEK Sports swept the Small Market TV Sports Play-by-Play Category for the ninth consecutive year

2021 Bismarck Tribune's Best of the Best, BEK TV as Best Local Television Station

2021 Eric Sevareid Awards for Journalism Excellence. BEK Sports swept the Small Market TV Sports Play-by-Play Category for the eighth consecutive year

2020 Eric Sevareid Awards for Journalism Excellence. BEK Sports swept the Small Market TV Sports Play-by-Play Category for the seventh consecutive year

2019 Eric Sevareid Awards for Journalism Excellence. BEK Sports swept the Small Market TV Sports Play-by-Play Category for the sixth consecutive year

2019 NTCA Marketing Excellence Award 1st Runner Up, Broadcast Advertising

2018 Eric Sevareid Awards for Journalism Excellence. BEK Sports swept the Small Market TV Sports Play-by-Play Category for fifth consecutive year

2017 Eric Sevareid Awards for Journalism Excellence. BEK Sports swept the Small Market TV Sports Play-by-Play Category for fourth consecutive year

2016 Eric Sevareid Awards for Journalism Excellence, BEK Sports swept the Small Market TV Sports Play-by-Play Category, winning all three awards

2015 Eric Sevareid Awards for Journalism Excellence, BEK Sports swept the Small Market TV Sports Play-by-Play Category, winning all three awards

2014 Eric Sevareid Awards for Journalism Excellence, BEK Sports swept the Small Market TV Sports Play-by-Play Category, winning all three awards

2011 Callix Innovation Award for local sports broadcasting

2010 TelcoTV Vision Award for the most innovative and visionary way of offering three channels of local content

BEK Enterprise and Cloud Services

BEK has been recognized as one of the top 3 West-Com Nurse Call solutions providers 10 out of the last 12 years, and has twice been ranked #1 in the country.