 Its National College Television and Radio Awards was the second (after the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' annual student competition) to give significant cash prizes for student productions in a wide range of programming categories that year, thanks to support from several of the US's major media companies, including CBS, ESPN, CNN, NBC, HBO, FOX, E!Entertainment, MTV Networks and Interep.Over its first few years, NACB hired three full-time staff to manage the association, at times including some graduating Brown students.