The 47th ABU General Assembly in Tokyo, Japan
TOKYO: 20 October 2010 – The ABU’s General Assembly and associated meetings ended in Tokyo today after a week of discussions that brought together over 400 people.
It ended with the election of two new Vice-Presidents.
The President of KBS-Korea, Kim In-Kyu, and the Director General of PBC-Pakistan, Murtaza Solangi, were elected unopposed to the ABU posts.
They replace Manuel Goncalves of TDM-Macau and Hassan Khojasteh of IRIB-Iran.
The new Vice-Presidents join the President, Yoshinori Imai, and Vice-President Ibrahim Yahaya in the ABU leadership group.
RTB-Brunei was elected to the ABU Administrative Council and BBS-Bhutan and KBS-Korea were re-elected.
The final day of the General Assembly saw a professional discussion on the convergence between broadcasting and the Internet, with speakers from ABC-USA, Reuters, ZDF-Germany, KBS-Korea and the Thailand Development Research Institute.
The General Assembly concluded with a reception hosted by NHK-Japan, which hosted the annual meetings. The General Assembly on 19-20 October was preceded by five days of meetings of the ABU Programme Committee, Technical Committee and Sports Group, among others.
India’s national television broadcaster, Doordarshan, will host the 48th ABU General Assembly in New Delhi in 2011.
ABU Prizes 2010
Japanese state broadcaster Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) was the big winner of the ABU Prizes 2010, which was held on the first day of the 47th ABU General Assembly in Tokyo on 19 October.
NHK walked away with four TELEVISION awards: the Children category for ‘The Three Musketeers: Episode 20: The Chaotic Ball’, Sports category for ‘Miracle Body: Downhill Skiing – Race Against Fear’. It also received special commendations for its Sports, ‘Rivals for Gold’, and Youth for ‘Discover Science: Let’s See the Speed of Sound’. It also bagged one RADIO award in Drama for ‘Revival’.
The Chinese state broadcaster RTPRC garnered two of the seven RADIO awards: the Radio News award for ‘Trace the Reason of Cyberspace Addiction’, and the External Broadcast award for ‘In the Days of Drought, What Can We Do?’. It also received the TV News category prize for ‘Series Reports on Wangjialing Mine Tragedy in Shanxi Province, China.
A total of 172 submissions that met entry requirements were received this year. Out of this number, 112 were for the TV categories and the remaining 60 were for the radio categories.
Three winners received the Asiavision Annual Awards. CCTV-China was honoured the winner for the most news flashes and NHK and Thai broadcaster MCOT were awarded for the overall quality of contributions.
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) won the Dennis Anthony Memorial Award. The award is presented forthe best news coverage of the year by a member of Asiavision, the ABU’s daily news exchange. It is named after a former ABU Senior Officer of News, who died in 1996.
Two broadcast excellence awards were also presented on the same night. The ABU Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award was presented to Abdolali Aliaskary of IRIB-Iran, and the ABU Engineering Industry Excellence Award was presented to Zhang Jianping, Vice President of Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation, RTPRC-China.
The full list of the ABU Prizes 2010 winners is provided below:
| ABU Prizes 2010: TV Winners |
Category: TV Children
Winner Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) The Three Musketeers
(Ep. 20: The Chaotic Ball)
Commended ZDF German Television (ZDF) Dandelion, Carbon Dioxide – A Gas Under
Pressure
Category: TV Documentary
Winner Korea Educational Broadcasting System (EBS) Cockroach
Commended Channel NewsAsia | MediaCorp Pte Ltd Asia’s Monarchies – Japan (Ep. 1)
Category: TV Drama
Winner Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) The Great Queen Seondeok
Commended NAB | Hokkaido Television Broadcasting Co. Ltd. Mieruhi: Coming Home
Category: TV Entertainment
Winner Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) Qualifications of Men – 101 Things To Do
Before Death
Category: TV News
Winner RTPRC | China Central Television (CCTV) Series Reports on Wangjialing Mine
Tragedy in Shanxi Province, China
Category: TV Sports
Winner Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Miracle Body: Downhill Skiing – Race
Against Fear
Commended Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Rivals for Gold
Category: TV Youth
Winner Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Discover Science: Let’s See the Speed of
Sound
Category: TV Special Jury Prize
Winner Mongolian National Public Zud Disaster Folowed by Grim
Radio and Television (MNB) Future
Commended Mauritius Broadcasting Dodo’s Lost World
Corporation (MBC)
| ABU Prizes 2010: Radio Winners |
Category: Radio Children and Youth
Winner All India Radio (AIR) Come Come Morning Dear
Commended ARD | Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenberg (RBB) Zappelduster Christmas Special
Category: Radio Documentary
Winner Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) The Too Hard Basket
Commended Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) Village of Loneliness
Category: Radio Drama
Winner Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Revival
Commended Radio New Zealand (RNZ) The Circus of Errors
Category: Radio External Broadcasts (Theme: Water)
Winner RTPRC|China Radio International (CRI) In the Days of Drought, What
Can We Do?
Commended BBC World Service (BBC) Syrdarya – River Journey
Category: Radio Infotainment
Winner Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) Women’s Generation: At Cheongju
Women’s Correctional Institution
Commended Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) International Children’s Day of
Broadcasting
Category: Radio News
Winner RTPRC|China National Radio (CNR) Trace the Reason of Cyberspace
Addiction
Category: Radio Special Jury Prize
Winner Mongolian National Public The Right Sacrifice
Radio and Television (MNB)
Commended Voice of Vietnam (VOV) Culture Guardians
Technical Awards
ABU Broadcast Engineering Excellence Award 2010
Winner: Dr Abdolali Aliaskary
Vice President
Development and Media Technology Division
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, IRIB-Iran
ABU Engineering Industry Excellence Award 2010
Winner: Mr Zhang Jianping
Vice President
Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation, RTPRC-China
ABU Technical Review Prize 2010
Best Article Award
Winner: Dr Kazuyoshi Shogen,
NHK-Science & Technology Research Laboratories, NHK-Japan
Dennis Anthony Memorial Award 2010
Winner: Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB)
For best Asiavision news story of the year
Twin car bombing in Baghdad
Asiavision Annual Awards 2010
CCTV-China for most news flashes
NHK-Japan & MCOT-Thailand for overall quality of contributions
ABU Prize on Climate Change Reporting 2010 (TV)
Winner: Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB), Hong Kong
Program: The Pearl Report: Counting Carbon
Award recipient: Ms Cecilia Tan
ABU Prize on HIV/AIDS TV Prpgrammes 2010
Winner: Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS)
Program: The Condom Man
Award recipient: Ms Pema Choden
ABU-CASBAA-UNICEF Child Rights Award
Winner: Smile Foundation, India
Program: Let Us Touch The Sky (Choone Do Aasman)
Award recipient: Mr Santanu Kumar Mishra / Mr Swatantra Gupta
Award Presenter: UNICEF
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