The AIBs 2013

The short list

Current affairs documentary | radio ABC International - /Radio National Background Briefing: PNG Land Scandal Grey Heron Media Documentary on One - Take No More Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty In the Footsteps of Sandzak Youths Who Fight in Syria Radio Taiwan International Days at the Mental Ward Voice of Nigeria Health Corner: Managing Autism Voice of Russia FGM - The Horror of Hidden Abuse

Creative feature | radio Classic FM Beethoven: The Man Revealed Kazakhstan TV & Radio Corporation Classicomania Nuala Macklin – independent producer Below the Radar Radio Taiwan International Once upon a Taiwan Voice of Nigeria Ripples Voice of Russia Out to Dry: A Launderette on the Line

Investigative documentary | radio BBC Arabic Arab Refugees in Scotland Radio Free Asia Lost but not Forgotten: Justice Sought for Missing Uyghurs Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Victims of 88 (AKA 2009) Tinderbox Production An Unspeakable Act

Live journalism | radio Middle East Broadcasting Networks Afia Darfur - Darfurian Refugees BBC 5 Live Victoria Derbyshire Show: Animal Research Lab International The Auckland Tornado Voice of Russia The News Show (Death of Margaret Thatcher)

International radio personality Classic FM John Suchet Paul Westpheling Voice of America Steve Ember Voice of Russia Tim Ecott

Children’s factual programme or series | TV ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation Matanglawin (Hawkeye) Sabang Dragons Australian Broadcasting Corporation My Great Big Adventure - Body Image BBC Hard Times - a Newsround Special Bulgarian National Jumblino Kazakhstan TV & Radio Corporation Your Future Profession Kratt Brothers Company Wild Kratts – Secrets of the Spiders Web

Live sports coverage | TV Arena FA Cup 2013 Final CBC Sports Hockey Night in Canada Nine Network Boxing Day Test 2012 Sunset+Vine Dubai World Cup

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Domestic current affairs documentary | TV ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation Failon Now: Island of Boracay 2 Antena 3 Hell's Angels Channel 4 Dispatches: The Hunt for Britain’s Sex Gangs France 24 Seven Days in Tibet Radio-Canada The St Lawrence, a Fragile Giant VRT The Disturbed Procedure

International current affairs documentary | TV BBC Current Affairs Shot for Going to School BBC News Hardtalk on the Road in Equatorial Guinea Channel 4 Walking Wounded: Return to the Frontline Channel NewsAsia Living in the Shadows Phoenix Satellite TV Co Ltd The Journey to North Korea 2012 TVE Cyber Threat VRT Voices from Iowa

Investigative documentary | TV Antena 3 Forgotten BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight-Horsemeat The Insider Channel 4 Dispatches: The Hunt for Britain’s Sex Gangs Channel NewsAsia MediaCorp Get Rea!: Bangladesh Brothel Secret Delivered! Contract Workers at SRF Swiss Radio and TV Into the Pampa TVC News TVC News Investigates - The Accused

Middle East documentary | TV Alhurra Television Street Pulse - Child Labor BBC News Hardtalk on the Road in Tunisia Channel 4 Syria: Across the Lines CNN Syria Uncovered: Risks of Refuge eNews Channel Working in a War Zone NHK WAVE Syria Through the Eyes of its People

Best science programme or series | TV CNN Going Green: Secrets in the Ice France 24 Down to Earth JSC Nauka (Science) Great Leap - Earth Shiver JSC Nauka (Science) Helicopters RT Channel More than meets the eye

International TV personality ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation Ted Failon BBC Persian BBC Persian Service team Bloomberg Television Francine Lacqua Pia Castro NDTV Barkha Dutt TV Today Rahul Kanwal

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Short report or documentary | TV Bloomberg Television Inside De Beers CNN Damascus Undercover: Daraya Kansai Telecasting Corporation Finding Hope in Horses NDTV Uttarakhand Flood Devastation Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Family trapped - Afghan Brickworks RT Channel The Human Toll of American Drones in Pakistan Voice of America Coney Island Rebirth

Specialist genre programme or series Alhurra Television Rayheen Ala Feen? BBC World Service My City Danish Broadcasting Corporation The Duel Eurosport Intimate Surfing Kansai Telecasting Corporation On the Long Road toward the Dream: Banraku Voice of America OnTen - Iranian Election Special Russian Travel Guide TV Journey to the Solovetsky Islands

Live journalism | TV BBC Persian Coverage of the Presidential Election Bloomberg Television Cyprus Crisis CNN Live Coverage of Anti-Government Protests in Turkey France 24 Timbuktu: Revenge in the Shadow in Northern Mali NDTV Delhi Gang Rape Protests RT Channel 100 Days of Guantanamo Hunger Strike

Production technology LVL Studio Purple Radio Free Asia E-Book "Remembering Tiananmen" TVE/ Corporation RTVE S.A Mapping 2012- News Summary UTV Media/Talk Sport talkSPORT International Commentary Service VOA Voice of America iPhone Interview

Transmedia production BBC Global News Arabic Service Talking Point Programme BBC Media Action LOY9 LVL Studio Hockey Night in Canada LVL Studio 19-2 Turner Sports NCAA March Madness Live TV18 Broadcast Ltd The Citizen Journalist Show

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Page 4 theaibs.tv t is all about inspiring encouraged to buy the creativity. Our ninth annual programming they see for A most search for the worldʹs best broadcast on their networks. This is fantastic factual content on TV and another great reason to put your radio has attracted a wide work forward in the annual AIBs. “evening. range of remarkable entries Winning to the 17 categories covering AWARDS NIGHT was an Ilive journalism, short reports, live The names of the winners and honour sport coverage, investigative finalists for the AIBs in 2013 will be beyond documentary and more. kept firmly under wraps until SPONSORS Each year we receive Wednesday 6 November – the day expecta- outstanding work from programme of the AIBs Awards Gala and tions makers across the world. 2013 is no Dinner. For what has by now exception. We are delighted that become one of the highlights in the many of the entries come from international broadcasting organisations that are new to the calendar, guests from every AIBs. From Kazakhstan to New continent will be joining us in the ” Zealand, India to , the fabulous performance space of US to Brazil, leading broadcasters LSO St Lukeʹs in central London. It and independent producers have is a magnificent venue that never submitted their work for peer ceases to impress and fascinate our review by our independent, guests. international jury. There is a As always, we will have a special tremendous variety of high‐quality guest "in conversation" during the content in this yearʹs AIBs ‐ and evening, adding to the interest and guests at the gala dinner in London excitement of the event. And of in November will see and hear course we will announce all the extracts from all the finalists who winners of the coveted AIBs awards make the short‐list. The AIBs are a across all categories and present global showcase for the most them to the deserving winners. inspiring, creative content in factual broadcasting and our guests say OUR SUPPORTERS that they particularly enjoy the way Running the AIBs is a considerable we present the short‐listed work. undertaking for us and we are There is no other awards event that delighted that this year RTG TV offers such depth, insight and and RUPTLY have signed up as key context – so we are told, time and sponsors for the 2013 festival. time again. The entire AIB membership and the awards team extend their JUDGES particular thanks to RTG TV and During September and October, RUPTLY for contributing to the our judges will view and listen to success of this international the material that has made it competition. through to the short‐list. This year too we are delighted to welcome a JOIN US great number of senior You and your colleagues are invited professionals from diverse areas of to join us for the AIBs awards gala the broadcasting industry to our dinner in London on 6 November ‐ international panel, thus ensuring you will find it inspirational and that different cultures and different rewarding, with excellent media markets are represented. We networking opportunities and the are immensely grateful to all our chance to exchange ideas and judges for giving freely of their knowledge with colleagues from all time and expertise in evaluating the over the world. And you will also short‐listed entries so that the final be able to meet some of the worldʹs winner can emerge. top programme makers. And because many of the jurors Itʹs a date not to be missed ‐ see ■ theaibs.tv run channels, they are often you in London!

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JUDGES Faisal Abbas, Editor-in-Chief English online, Al Arabiya, UAE | Daniel Adams, VP Business Development, Zefr, USA | Felix Alvarez-Garmon, SVP LATAM, IMG, UK | Said Bacho, SVP EMEA, grass valley, USA | Klaus Bergmann, Head of International Relations, Deutsche Welle, | Dorothy Byrne, Head of News and Current Affairs, Channel 4, UK | Naveen Chandra, Head of International Business, Times TV Network, India | Linden Clark, Manager, Radio New Zealand International, New Zealand | Eugen Cojocariu, Director, Radio Romania International, Romania | Nicholas Daly, Managing Director, Eutelsat UK, UK | Geraldine Easter, Director of Programming and Acquisitions, Nine Network, Australia | Evandro Figueira, Director of Production and Operations, Bandsports, Brazil |David Finch, VP Business Development, Mobiles Republic, France | Foulds, Director of Communications EMEA, CNBC Europe, UK | Jeff Foulser, Chairman, Sunset + Vine, UK | Malcolm Fried, Managing Director EMEA, Bloomberg TV, UK | Angela Fung, Deputy Head of Phoenix Chinese Channel, Phoenix Satellite TV, Hong Kong| Mihai Gadea, CEO, Antena 3, Romania | Susan Gigli, COO, InterMedia, USA | Fredrik Graesvik, Producer, TV2, Norway | Ibrahima Guimba-Saidou, SVP Commercial Africa, SES, South Africa | Mohamed Ali Harrath, CEO, Islam Channel, UK | Ryan Honter, COO, Colombo Communications, Sri Lanka | Peter Horrocks, Director, BBC Global News, UK | Carlson Huang, Vice Manager and English Programme Host, RTI, Taiwan | Abubakar Jijiwa, Director General, Voice of Nigeria, Nigeria | Richard Kastelein, Partner, Agora Media, UK | Oleg Kupriyanov, Deputy Chairman International Relations, Voice of Russia, Russia | MA Guoli, CEO and Managing Director, Infront Sports & Media, China | John Maguire, Director of International Development, France 24, France | Liz McParland, Commercial Director Contribution, GlobeCast, France | Marcus Metzner, Head Marketing & Communications, arvato Systems, Germany | Choy Lin Mok, VP Network Programming and Promotions, Channel NewsAsia, | Nurzhan Mukhamedzhanova, Chairman, Kazakhstan TV and Radio Corp, Kazakhstan | Wangethi Mwangi, Senior Consultant, African Media Initiative, Kenya | Eurishka Nadesan, Current Affairs Producer and Senior Video Editor, eNews Channel, South Africa | Alexey Nikolov, Managing Director, RT, Russia | John Ogden, Network Director, The Spectrum , UK | Nigel Parsons, CEO, TVC News, Nigeria | Nenad Pejic, Chief Broadcast Operations Officer, RFE/RL, Czech Republic | Anthony Rose, MD, Zeebox, UK | Vatche Sarkisian, Director of Program Review, MBN (Alhurra/Radio Sawa), USA | Arnaud Simon, MD Eurosport France and Director TV Content, Eurosport, France | Simon Spanswick, CEO, AIB, UK | Deborah Steele, Editor, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia | Fedor Strizhkov, CEO, RTG TV, Russia | Amir Tajik, Production Manager, Press TV, Iran | Jeff Trimble, Executive Director, Broadcasting Board of Governors, USA | Arie Vered, Sales Director Africa, SatLink, Israel | Robert Zaal, Director, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, The Netherlands |

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