Al Jazeera English Channel has been awarded four gold and three silver Promax/BDA Arabia Awards this year in recognition for its originality and creativeness for its on-air promos and titles.
The prestigious Promax/BDA awards recognize outstanding creative on-air promotion and advertising in the field of broadcast media and electronics. This year, where almost 700 entries were received Al Jazeera English won four gold awards for, Best News, Factual Programme Promo: State of the Union, Best Promo Not Using Programme Footage: State of the Union, Best Holiday/Seasonal/Special Event Promo: State of the Union and Best Promotional Campaign: News Maps.
Al Jazeera English also received three silver awards for, Best Promo Not Using Programme Footage: Memorial, Best Promotional Campaign: Wheres and Best Use of English Typography: State of the Union.
Tony Burman, Managing Director for Al Jazeera English stated, We are pleased to have won the Promax/BDA awards which recognize creativity in our on-air promos and titles. As a news organization which continues to win awards every year for our journalistic excellence, its great to see Al Jazeera Englishs creative teams winning awards for their hard work. Well done to the teams in garnering the industrys recognition for their excellence in creativity.
Al Jazeera has previously been awarded Promax/BDA awards winning gold for Best News & Factual Programme Title Sequence: People & Power (2007), silver for Best Set Design: News (2007) for AJEs state of the art news rooms in the 4 broadcast centres and for Best Sports Programme Title Sequence: Sportsworld (2007), as well as bronze for Art Direction & Design (2007), Topical Campaign: Art Direction & Design (2007), and for Image Design and Website News (2007).