| "We
are most delighted with the quality of entries this year. The interest in the
radio programme category has increased over the past year and in particular, there
was serious competition for the TV documentary category," said ABU director
of programmes Tatsuya Nakamura. ABU
Prize for sports programmes chairperson Remesh Kumar added, "It was nice
to see a whole range of broadcasters and producers from a variety of nationalities
submitting their work. There was also a spectrum of presentations relating to
sports from live productions, to studio presentations to documentaries."
The winners
for ABU prizes 2006 are: -
Radio winners for ABU prizes 2006
Drama
Haru's Diary (NHK-Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Japan) Special
commendation for drama At
the very Beginning (RTHK-Radio Television Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Infotainment
Could This Be A Mozart (TBS-Tokyo Broadcasting System, Japan) Children
and youth
Voice of Happiness (IRIB-Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting,
Iran) News
The Breaking Point-From Teach to Kill (RTHK- Radio Television
Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Documentary A
Green Song Coming from the Desert (RTPRC/CNR-Radio and Television of the People's
Republic of China/China National Radio, China) External
broadcasts
A Childhood Shaken by Bird Flu (RTPRC/CRI-Radio and
Television of the People's Republic of China/China Radio International, China) Special
jury prize
Life in Green Hills (BB-Bangladesh Betar, Bangladesh)
- TV
winners for ABU prizes 2006
Drama
The Ice Wall Ep.2 A Mortal Challenge (NHK-Nippon Hoso Kyokai,
Japan) Entertainment
Changing Our Child's Behaviour (SBS-Seoul Broadcasting System, Korea) Children
Hurray! Cool Daddy! (EBS-Korea Educational Broadcasting System, Korea) Youth
Victory of Youth (RTPRC/CCTV- Radio and Television of the People's Republic
of China/China Central Television, China) News
Dying Alone (NHK-Nippon Hoso Kyokai, Japan) Documentary
Two Lives and an Old Mountain Lodge (NAB/Chubu Nippon Broadcasting, Japan) Sports
2006 World Cup Games (MBC-Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, Korea) Special
jury prize
Crossing Fires-Peace and Harmonies (YATV-Young Asia
Television, Sri Lanka) -
ABU CASBAA Unicef child's rights award Conquering
the Darkness - The Fight Against Memories of Abuse', (Shinichi Sugimoto, Kansai
Telecasting Corporation-Japan) -
Technical Prizes ABU
Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award 2006
Engineer in chief All India Radio (AIR) India, Ansu Sekhar Guin.
ABU Engineering
Industry Excellence Award 2006
RandD laboratories, pioneer corporation
general manager and director general of corporate Dr Osamu Yamada.
ABU
Technical Review Best Article Prize 2006
Character appearance retrieval
and analysis (CARA) system for TV Programmes by Jung Byunghee and Park Sungchoon
from KBS-Korean Broadcasting System Korea. Dennis
Anthony Memorial Award 2006 for outstanding news coverage by an Asiavision
member Islamic
republic of Iran broadcasting (IRIB) Iran. | 
