City TV wins the 2022 Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media Foundation
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City TV wins the 2022 Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media Foundation
Takoma Park, MD—JUNE 1, 2022—City TV received a 2022 Hometown Media Award from the Alliance for Community Media Foundation. The awards program was established to honor and promote community media, community radio, and local cable programs distributed on Public, Educational, and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels. Proceeds go to the ACM Foundation, which is exclusively used for facilitating, preserving, and promoting education in community media.
City TV has won the Overall Excellence in Governmental Programming. The award honors all the programming of the station, not just one show. City TV entered a category with stations doubling its budget. This is the fourth time City TV has won the overall award.
“We’ve entered these awards about 12 times in the last 20-plus years because they are the greatest representation of the type of station we are,” says Alvaro C. Calabia, TV production manager for the City of Takoma Park. “We cover the local politics, local non-profits, residents, all our diversity. Hyperlocal it’s called. We love it, and we usually deal with residents doing what they love, arts, sports, activism, solidarity… Every day you meet someone new, and you learn something different. The award is just a way to let us know that we are doing it the right way.”
Each year, nearly one thousand entries are submitted. These entries, or programs, are submitted and evaluated on several factors resulting in over 100 award winners. Then, a panel of judges from the industry evaluate the entries. Awards are presented to the most creative programs that address community needs, develop diverse community involvement, challenge conventional commercial television formats, and move viewers to experience television differently.
“The Hometown Media Awards celebrate both the excellence of work and the diversity of media that appears on community channels being produced around the country. The ACM Foundation is proud of their achievement and of how they represent their communities in their work,” said Mike Wassenaar, President & CEO, Alliance for Community Media.
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