The results of the 2008 AIB Media Excellence Awards were announced at a
star-studded dinner in London on 12 November. The annual celebration of success
in international broadcasting was over-booked, with more than 215 guests from
all over the world joining the evening at funky LSO St Luke’s.
You can read about all the finalists in our special Awards brochure
here.
Our winners:
Best radio current affairs
documentary Winner Tinderbox
Production Where Next, A Soldiers Journey
Best television current affairs
documentary Winner Strix TV
Class of 07
Best investigative TV documentary Winner BBC Northern
Ireland The Pitbull Sting
Clearest radio coverage of a single
news event Winner BBC World
Service – The World Today: Chinese Party Congress
Clearest TV coverage of a single news
event Joint winners SABC – Hambani
Makwerekwere
France 24 Crackdown in the Heart of
Burma
Best creative TV feature Winner Rockhopper TV
A Sporting Chance
Best creative radio feature Winner BBC
Portuguese for Africa The Amazon Paradox
Best cross-media production Winner BBC World
Service Bangladesh Boat Project
Most innovative use of graphics powered by Vizrt
Winner NFL Network Games Graphics Package
Most creative marketing strategy powered by Russia Today TV
Winner Sveriges Radio The Programme Guide
Most innovative technology powered by Bloomberg Television
Winner Link Research The Prague Steps
Most creative specialist genre Winner SVT The
Truth About Marika
International TV personality of the
year Winner Ross Kemp,
Sky One
International radio personality of
the year Winner 3FM
AIB Editors Award 2008 France 24
AIB INSI Special Award Sami Al-Hajj
We will be announcing the 2009 AIB Media Excellence
Awards in March. The Awards will be presented on Wednesday 11 November 2009 –
mark the date in your diary now!
GlobeCast announced today that it has launched its second MCPC platform on the AsiaSat 3S satellite. Leading European broadcaster Deutsche Welle is the new transponders first client.
The new C-band platform on AsiaSat 3S, located at 105.5° E with a footprint covering the Middle East to East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, is a premium broadcast platform for the Asia-Pacific region reaching a potential audience of over 95 million households.
DW-TV ASIA+, Deutsche Welles new second free-to-air Asian channel, broadcasts a variety of lifestyle, cultural, arts and in-depth business and politics programmes around-the-clock with 18 hours of programming in English. The new channel complements DW-TVs feed on GlobeCasts existing AsiaSat 3S MCPC platform.
From GlobeCasts point of presence in Frankfurt, DW-TV ASIA+ is delivered via GlobeCasts international RIBU fibre network to the companys Hong Kong teleport for uplink to AsiaSat 3 and distribution to the entire Asian-Pacific region.
Thanks to new distribution agreements, euronews is now available in three new countries in Asia and Oceania
In the Philippines, Skycable, launched euronews on its digital cable network on February 27th 2009. euronews is now received in 170,000 new homes including Manila. Filipino subscribers have access to euronews in English through the digital basic offer.
This agreement with Skycable is the first in this country, which has a potential of more than 9 million TV homes.
euronews has also made its first step into Indonesia via Telkomvision which distributes the channel to its subscribers since March 5th. euronews in English was added to the offer in Bali and Jakarta. In the next months, euronews will develop its distribution this country, one of the most important in the region with a potential of more than 31 million TV homes.
In Papua New Guinea, euronews was launched on the Hitron network in their digital package.
With these three new agreements, euronews strengthens its presence in the region. euronews is available free to air throughout Asia and Oceania, via the AsiaSat2 satellite.
The channel is currently distributed by Asiatic operators in Hong Kong, Japan, Pakistan, Singapore and Vietnam, and in Oceania by operators in Australia, New Zealand and in New Caledonia.
With the new carriage agreements in the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, euronews now reaches nearly four million homes in Asia and Oceania.