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• Al Jazeera English wins awards

  June 11 2009 9:08pm (UTC+8)  -  Article by Kevin

  Al Jazeera English has been awarded four gold and three silver Promax/BDA Arabia Awards in recognition for its originality and creativeness for its on-air promos and titles.
  
  The prestigious Promax/BDA awards recognize outstanding creative on-air promotion and advertising in the field of broadcast media and electronics. This year, where almost 700 entries were received Al Jazeera English won four gold awards for, "Best News, Factual Programme Promo: State of the Union", "Best Promo Not Using Programme Footage: State of the Union", "Best Holiday/Seasonal/Special Event Promo: State of the Union" and "Best Promotional Campaign: News Maps".
  
  Al Jazeera English also received three silver awards for, "Best Promo Not Using Programme Footage: Memorial", "Best Promotional Campaign: Wheres" and "Best Use of English Typography: State of the Union".
  
  Tony Burman, Managing Director for Al Jazeera English stated, "We are pleased to have won the Promax/BDA awards which recognize creativity in our on-air promos and titles. As a news organization which continues to win awards every year for our journalistic excellence, it's great to see Al Jazeera English's creative teams winning awards for their hard work. Well done to the teams in garnering the industry's recognition for their excellence in creativity.
  
  Al Jazeera has previously been awarded Promax/BDA awards winning gold for "Best News and Factual Programme Title Sequence: People and Power" (2007), silver for "Best Set Design: News" (2007) for AJE's state of the art news rooms in the 4 broadcast centres and for "Best Sports Programme Title Sequence: Sportsworld" (2007), as well as bronze for "Art Direction and Design" (2007), "Topical Campaign: Art Direction and Design" (2007), and for "Image Design and Website News" (2007).
  
  Al Jazeera English is the first English language world news channel to be headquartered in the Middle East. Launched in November 2006, Al Jazeera English is setting the global news agenda and acts as a bridge between cultures. With unique access as the channel of reference for Middle East events, and broadcast centres strategically placed around the world in Doha, Kuala Lumpur, London and Washington DC,
  
  The channel is available in over 100 countries to over 140 million households worldwide, and was recently awarded "Best 24 Hour News Program” at the 48th Annual Monte Carlo Television Festival. The channel also recently received its first three International Emmy nominations - two in news and current affairs for its groundbreaking coverage of the military crackdown in Myanmar and its Red Mosque coverage and one for digital programmes for their coverage of the US election.
  
  Al Jazeera started out over twelve years ago as the first independent Arabic news channel in the world dedicated to providing comprehensive television news and live debate for the Arab world. Al Jazeera has been ranked by brandchannel.com as the most impactful television broadcast news brand globally.
  
  Established in 1955, PROMAX says they are the world's "premier body for promotion and marketing professionals working in electronic and broadcast media". With a membership of over 4000 companies and individuals drawn from more than 65 countries, and with conferences taking place in Europe, Arabia, Africa, USA, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and the UK, Promax/BDA is an international organization uniting the individuals who will pioneer tomorrow's electronic and broadcast media.
  
  Throughout the world the Promax/BDA awards, which are presented in each region, are regarded as the most prestigious awards for creative endeavour in this field. Our reach also extends into the academic community where we identify and nurture the future generation of promotion, marketing and design professionals.

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