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Category Television - Global Date 6/9/2006 |
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Global Television Wins Unprecedented Four Atlantic Regional RTNDA Awards
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| Global News Maritimes receives awards for Best Continuing Coverage, Best Long Feature, Best Short Feature and Best Spot News |
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(Halifax) Global News Maritimes has won an unprecedented four awards at the 2005 Atlantic Regional Radio-Television News Directors Association of Canada Awards (RTNDA). The awards where handed out last night at a gala presentation in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Global News Maritimes will now move on to compete in the national RTNDA awards, which will take place tonight in St. John’s.
The win for Global News adds to the 17 regional RTNDA awards and honourable mentions that Global and CH news affiliates have already received in the Central, Prairie and Pacific regions.
Below is a listing of the Atlantic Regional RTNDA awards received by Global News Maritimes:
Global Maritimes:
• Charlie Edwards Award for Best Spot News for “Saint-Anne-De-Kent Church Fire,” coverage of a fire caused by lightning that destroyed a 119-year-old heritage church in New Brunswick,
• Dave Rogers Award for Best Short Feature for “Historic Crossing,” a photojournalist’s trek to document the journey of 18 canoeists who re-traced the route taken by French explorer Jacques de Meulle in 1686,
• Dave Rogers Award for Best Long Feature for “Desperate Measures,” an in-depth special that followed Rene Cyr’s abduction of his own two children and their emotional reunion with their mother,
• Ron Laidlaw Award for Best Continuing Coverage for “Rene Cyr – An Act of Desperation,” Global Maritime’s unrivalled coverage of Rene Cyr’s decision to abduct his own children and embark on a desperate flight to start a new life with them in a Louisiana bayou.
Earlier in May, Global News Maritimes also received two Atlantic Journalism Awards for Best Continuing Coverage (Television) and Best Spot News Journalism (Television) for their coverage of the Sainte-Anne-de-Kent church fire and the Digby RCMP.
About Global Television:
Global Television is owned by CanWest MediaWorks Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CanWest Global Communications Corp, (CanWest) (NYSE: CWG; TSX: CGS and CGS.A, www.canwestglobal.com). CanWest, an international media company, is Canada’s largest media company. In addition to owning the Global Television Network, CanWest is Canada’s largest publisher of daily newspapers, and also owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in conventional television, out-of-home advertising, specialty cable channels, Web sites and radio networks in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
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For further information, please contact:
Yvonne Chiang
News Publicist, Global Television
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