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October 19, 2006
CBC Radio Wins Broadcaster of the Year Award at New York Festivals
CBC Radio had an impressive showing on October 12 at the New York Festivals Awards ceremony, winning the Broadcaster of the Year Award, The Grand Award, six Gold World Medals and nine additional awards. In total, CBC Radio garnered 17 awards and six Finalist Certificates. Here are some of the details:
The Grand Award was won by Outfront for Best Information Programming for its documentary, Cause Of Thunder. This program offered a glimpse into the remarkable world of Eliot Grant, a five year-old boy from Prospect, Nova Scotia, with Aspergers Syndrome, a form of autism. The documentary also won a Gold World Medal in the Educational category.
Gold World Medals were also won for:
Year of Disasters - 2005 (National Radio News) Ongoing News Story — (Longform): this special series of news stories covered world disasters such as the tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the earthquake in Pakistan. Reporters covered the events as they occurred, and returned to explore their impact.
Get With It (WireTap), Best Regularly Scheduled Comedy Program: host, Jonathan Goldstein discovers an unsettling connection between his mother and his friend Howard and gets some radical advice from a marketing specialist on how to take the WireTap brand global.
A Stones Throw (Sunday Showcase), Best Writing. This innovative drama uses a documentary style to tell the fictional story of the brilliant career of the first-ever Palestinian baseball pitcher who gets discovered on television throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers.
The Change of the Sound (The Wire: Episode 2), Best Editing. This special series explores the impact of electricity on music.
What Happened to Punky (CBC Radio Edmonton), History. This piece explores the horror and emotion that came after the abduction and murder of six-year-old Corrine Punky Gustavson.
CBC Radio also received six Silver and three Bronze medals, and six Finalist Certificates.
About CBC/Radio-Canada
CBC/Radio-Canada is Canada's national public broadcaster and one of its largest cultural institutions. CBC/Radio-Canada reaches Canadians through eight national radio and television networks, its full-service Web sites, local/regional stations and affiliates, as well as the digital television channel Country Canada and the continuous music network Galaxie. In addition, CBC/Radio-Canada has forged partnerships with other broadcasters and is a partner in the satellite radio service SIRIUS Canada as well as in the specialty television services ARTV and The Documentary Channel. Through this array of activities, CBC/Radio-Canada brings diverse regional and cultural perspectives into the daily lives of Canadians in English, French and eight aboriginal languages. (2006)
For additional information, please contact:
Katherine Heath-Eves
Media Relations
CBC/Radio-Canada (Ottawa)
Tel: (613) 288-6235
heathevk@cbc.ca
www.cbc.radio-canada.ca
