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City of Seattle
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NEWS ADVISORY
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| SUBJECT: Nine TVSea Programs Honored in
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
7/16/2001 8:00:00 AM |
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Hap Freund (206) 684-8328
Katherine Schubert-Knapp (206) 684-0909
Kathy Sugiyama (206) 684-0909
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Government Access Channel Nets 4
First-Place Video Festival Honors
SEATTLE — TVSea, Seattle’s municipal cable
channel, picked up four first-place awards in the Alliance for Community Media’s
annual "Hometown Video Festival," the largest and longest running
video festival for local cable programming in the northern hemisphere. Five
additional entries received honorable mention awards. Judges reviewed 1,681
entries from 44 states and Canadian provinces. One hundred fifty-nine programs
received first-place awards and 144 received honorable mentions.
Noncommercial programs produced for public,
educational and governmental access channels are eligible. The following
programs Seattle entered received the following awards:
- Teen Music, Dead or Alive (two first place
awards; documentary, public awareness category and informational category). This
documentary looks at the role live music plays in teenagers’ social lives
and at Seattle’s teen dance ordinance.
- The Experience Music Project: Experience This!
(first place, music video category and honorable mention, innovative
programming category).
A video tour of
this incredible building and the musical artifacts displayed in it. Artistically
shot and edited, this video rocks!
- www.cityofseattle.net/tvsea
(first place, web site category).
TVSea’s
web site includes schedule information and links to streaming video.
- Global Reading Challenge (honorable mention,
children’s category).
A humorous
"take" on a kids’ reading competition between two Seattle schools.
- Seattle Speaks (honorable mention,
municipal/general category).
This
segment from TVSeas’ "Seattle Focus" video magazine featured
Councilmember Judy Nicastro asking citizens on the street if they could name any
of their councilmembers. Not only did they have trouble naming them, most didn’t
recognize Nicastro.
- BookTalk (honorable mention, talk/informational
category).
BookTalk is a series TVSea
produces with the Washington Center For the Book. Sixteen BookTalk programs have
been produced to date and this particular entry features Sharon Griggins and
Nancy Pearl discussing "The Classics."
- TVSea (honorable mention, overall
excellence-government channels category).
As
runner-up, TVSea was ranked second in this contest among all government channels
nationwide for the quality and variety of its programming.
The awards were presented at the Alliance’s
annual conference on July 12, 2001, in Washington, D.C.
These and other videos may be viewed on TVSea’s
streaming video web: http://www2.ci.seattle.wa.us/media/
For TVSea’s weekly program schedule and other information, visit the station’s
main web site: http://www.cityofseattle.net/TVSea/
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