Page 32 - The Channel Issue 2 2010

TELEVISION

Clearest coverage of a single news event Best current affairs documentary

Best investigative documentary Best creative feature Best children’s factual programme/series

Most creative specialist genre

RADIO

Clearest coverage of a single news event Best current affairs documentary

Best investigative documentary Best creative feature

his year's AIBs – the international media excellence awards for TV, radio and the allied sectors of media marketing and technology – have received an unprecedented number of entries from broadcasters, independent producers, and technology companies from every continent. This means the 2010 AIBs – the sixth since the AIBs started - will be our largest yet. For this year's AIBs, we have added two new categories. Firstly, a children's category has been introduced to reward programme makers who are delivering first-class factual TV to young audiences around the world. Secondly, the People’s Choice category, which this year is for programmes on the topical subject of “Climate Change”, provides an exciting new award. It has attracted entries from the world’s top broadcasters who will see their content being voted on by viewers using leading online platforms backed up by social networks. From September, visitors to theaibs.tv/peoples-choice/view-and-vote/ will be able to see the shortlisted entries and vote for their favourite. Go there now and sign up to be informed when voting starts and to find out about the social media campaign.

The awards will be presented at a gala evening in London on Tuesday 9 November, by Vanessa Mock, EU Correspondent for Radio Netherlands Worldwide (pictured right). We're returning to LSO St Luke's (centre right) by popular demand as this is an inspirational venue, ideal for celebrating and networking. Many of our guests have said that they have rarely met so many interesting people in a single place as they do at the AIBs – the gala evening provides a great forum to meet the world's best programme makers, producers and editors, as well as top executives, many of whom cross continents to take part.

This year we're delighted to again have a jury of eminent media professionals drawn from every part of the globe. We are equally delighted that a range of companies involved in international media are supporting these not-for-profit awards. Bloomberg Television, ADB, Eurosport and 1GOAL have committed to sponsoring the 2010 AIBs - and we are very grateful for their valued contribution to making this year's AIBs a global success. We hope you will join us on 9 November for the culmination of the competition!

We are also piloting a climate change portal (climate.aib.org.uk) which will showcase recent climate change stories and blog articles from the web. The aim is to attract many viewers to vote for the People’s Choice. However, as a not-for-profit organisation, we are looking for support to build this innovative information tool which has the potential to be used for aggregating content on any given topic.