Deutsche Welle Recognized for Excellence in Broadcasting

Feb. 6, 2008 - PRLog -- DW-TV has been awarded four prizes at the New York Festivals 2008 Television Broadcasting Awards. The “euromaxx” TV magazine came home with two awards; one Bronze World Medal for the 12-part series called “World Wide Video” and one Finalist Certificate for the series “The Truth About Germany”. DW-TV also won Finalist Certificates for “popXport” and “Bundesliga Kick Off!” in the variety and sports categories respectively.

The euromaxx series World Wide Video presents the most creative video filmmakers in Europe as well as the newest trends from video portals on the Internet. “We are especially proud of this award because the series was, to a certain extent, just a bi-product of our work for the ‘Clipmania’ pilot,” said Rolf Rische from DW-TV. “User-generated content and the way in which we implemented it was evidently enough to convince a very critical festival jury. This is a positive sign for Clipmania.”

The weekly series “The Truth About Germany” follows reporter Michael Wigge as shows real examples of entertaining and informative clichés about Germany and the German people.  

Each entry was screened by NYF judging panels composed from industry experts including producers, directors, writers and other media professionals in the New York area. Winning entries will be showcased at www.newyorkfestivals.com and promoted by NYF representatives in 62 countries.

New York Festivals, along with its sister competitions, the AME Awards, the Global Awards and the Midas Awards (all within the International Awards Group) recognize excellence, creativity and innovation in advertising, broadcasting, marketing and programming.

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Deutsche Welle is Germany’s international broadcaster. It carries out its legally defined mission while remaining journalistically independent. DW is Germany’s media calling card throughout the world – with DW-TV, DW-RADIO, DW-WORLD.DE and the DW-AKADEMIE.

Website: www.dw-world.de