News Broadcasting
Promax/BDA Arabia 2006 award winners announced; MBC Creative Services win 13 award
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MUMBAI: UAE’s MBC Creative Services, Showtime and Dubai Media Incorporated bagged the most number of awards in the second annual Promax/BDA Arabia Awards. MBC Creative Services picked up 13 awards, Showtime bagged 10 and Dubai Media won eight. |
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Presented at the culmination of the Promax/BDA Arabia 2006 conference on 15 March in Dubai, the awards celebrate works of excellence in promotion, marketing and broadcast design aired, published or distributed in Arabia between 1 April 2005 and 1 January 2006.  Gold and Silver Muse Awards are presented in the promotional award categories and Gold and Silver Isis Awards are presented in the broadcast design categories. |
| Promax/BDA EMEA senior vice president and managing director Carmen Alzner said, “We were excited by the unprecedented number of submissions for just our second year of the Promax/BDA Arabia Awards, knowing that it broadened the scope of potential winning projects, and we weren’t disappointed. All of us at Promax/BDA continue to be inspired and uplifted by the enthusiasm and camaraderie that our colleagues in this region bring to both the conference and the awards ceremony and look forward to our return next year.” |
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The big winner of the night was the UAE’s MBC Creative Services, picking up 13 awards (six Muse and seven Isis) in categories such as Best Program Promotion (MBC4’s Live 8 Our Defining Moment), two wins in the Best Film Promo for MBC2’s High Crimes and Silence of the Lambs, Best Children’s Promo for BC2’s Tom & Jerry, two Best News Factual or Factual Entertainment Promo for Al Arabiya’s Quantanamo Bay and Arab Thought Foundation, Best Use of Music and Sound Design for MBC2’s My Name Is…, Best Copy/Script Writing for MBC1’s The Hard Way, Best On Air Branding for MBC1’s channel branding, two Best On Air Ident awards for MBC1’s Chairs and MBC4’s Ant, Best Mixed Media Animation for Al Arabiya’s The Third Eye and Best Design in Promo for MBC2’s My Name Is… UAE’s Showtime picked up 10 awards in the following categories: Best Film Promotion for Man on Fire, Best Children’s Promo for Angry Beavers, and in the Something for Nothing category, a win for CSI Thumb Print. Showtime earned double awards in Best Television Image Promo for its Al Pacino Special and DIFF Award Winning Movies, Best Drama Promotion for CSI Thumb Print and Desperate Housewives Smoke and Best Editing for its Tarantino Special and CSI combo. The night’s other big winner was Dubai Media Incorporated, picking up eight awards for its work in both promotion and broadcast design. Among its wins were two awards for Best Editing for AAKS and Dubai Sports, two awards for Best Set Design for Alittijah Al Khames and Assrarooha, as well as Best On Air Branding for Dubai Sports, Best Sports Promo for Al Sahmal Arabi, Best Use of Music and Sound Design for its Be a Sport, and in the Something for Nothing category, a win for Happy Birthday One TV.
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CNN-News18 to air live counting day coverage for five state election results on May 4
The channel is rolling out its biggest election coverage machinery yet for results day on 4th May
NOIDA: The votes have been cast. Now comes the reckoning. CNN-News18 is pulling out all the stops for results day on 4th May, when counting begins across five battleground states — West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Puducherry — in what promises to be one of the most closely watched electoral verdicts in recent memory.
The channel’s coverage, titled Battle for the States: The Verdict, kicks off at 7am and runs through the day across linear TV, connected television and YouTube. It is the culmination of CNN-News18’s multi-format editorial initiative, Battle for the States, which has tracked the polls from the beginning under the theme Road to Power.
At the operational heart of the coverage will be the Live Results Hub, the channel’s central command centre built to collate, verify and process real-time data flowing in from reporters stationed at counting centres across constituencies. The hub combines newsroom intelligence, analytics and on-the-ground reporting to deliver what the channel promises will be the fastest and most accurate results coverage in English news.
Leading the on-air charge will be primetime anchors Rahul Shivshankar, Anand Narasimhan, Aman Sharma, Nabila Jamal and Shivani Gupta. They will be joined by a wide panel of commentators including author Chetan Bhagat; GVL Narasimha Rao, senior leader of the BJP; Smita Prakash, editor of ANI; activist Saira Shah Halim; political analyst Sumanth C Raman; Abhijit Iyer Mitra, senior fellow at IPCS; Amitabh Tiwari, founder of VoteVibe; columnist Abhijit Majumdar; Nalin Mehta, managing editor of MoneyControl; political analyst Tehseen Poonawalla; senior journalist Subir Bhaumik; and political analyst Manojit Mandal.
Shivshankar, who serves as editorial affairs director at CNN-News18, set out the stakes plainly. “Counting day is one of the most watched events in the electoral cycle, where speed and credibility are tested in real time,” he said. “Battle for the States: The Verdict is built on that promise, combining ground reporting, sharp analysis and cutting-edge election technology to give viewers the clearest and fastest route to the verdict. On May 4, CNN-News18 will once again be the nation’s most trusted channel to witness democracy in action.”
Smriti Mehra, chief executive of English and Business News at Network18, framed the coverage in broader terms. “Elections are defining national events, and audiences turn to brands they trust in moments that matter,” she said. “CNN-News18 has consistently led from the front in every election coverage, and this special programming reflects the scale of our ambition and editorial strength.”
The channel has form here. It claims to have been India’s most preferred English news destination for election results for the past 20 years, covering everything from the 2024 general elections to the Delhi, Maharashtra, Bihar and BMC polls on the back of what it calls an “Always First, Always Right” record. Five states, one day, and a nation waiting for answers. The clock starts at 7am on 4th May.
