Antenna Awards
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The Antenna Awards are an annual award ceremony that recognises outstanding community television programs broadcast on Australia
's Channel 31 stations. Since their inception in 2004, the Antennas have been traditionally hosted by C31 Melbourne, and are held at a gala ceremony at Federation Square
. now showcase outstanding Community Television programs in Australia.
Nominations are forwarded by community television volunteers and audience members, and this pool of nominees is weeded down to a final list for each award. More than 500 initial nominations are received each year.
The 'The viewers choice' Award (in which viewers can vote on their favorite program) as well as the 'Best contribution to community Television' are the only two awards not judged by a pannel and with shortlisted nominees
As of 2010, C31 Melbourne Antenna Awards will be held on Sunday 27 June at BMW Edge from Federation Square, Melbourne.
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's Channel 31 stations. Since their inception in 2004, the Antennas have been traditionally hosted by C31 Melbourne, and are held at a gala ceremony at Federation Square
Federation Square
Federation Square is a civic centre and cultural precinct in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....
. now showcase outstanding Community Television programs in Australia.
Nominations are forwarded by community television volunteers and audience members, and this pool of nominees is weeded down to a final list for each award. More than 500 initial nominations are received each year.
The 'The viewers choice' Award (in which viewers can vote on their favorite program) as well as the 'Best contribution to community Television' are the only two awards not judged by a pannel and with shortlisted nominees
As of 2010, C31 Melbourne Antenna Awards will be held on Sunday 27 June at BMW Edge from Federation Square, Melbourne.
2007 Antenna Awards
- Best Living and Learning Program – No Limits
- Best Program that Supports New and Emerging Communities – Salam CaféSalam CafeSalam Cafe is an Australian comedy talk show. Produced by RMITV, and originally airing on Channel 31 from 31 April 2005 under the title Ramadan TV, the show began a revamped ten week run on the SBS from 7 May 2008...
- Best Comedy – In Wollongong Tonight
- Best Young Persons program – sk82deathSk82deathSk82death is an Australian skateboarding television series, featuring various dangerous, crude, ridiculous, and self-injuring stunts and pranks...
- Best Indigenous program – BobtalesBobtalesBobtales is an Australian animated series of aboriginal dreamtime stories produced in Perth, Western Australia in 1997.Thirteen 5-minute episodes were produced by independent film company Gripping Film and Graphics and the Western Australian Aboriginal Media Association in Western Australia, with...
- Best Arts – Rock and Roll Cooking Show
- Best Program that Promotes Community Harmony & Diversity – No Limits
- Best Drama – One Night StandOne Night StandOne Night Stand is an HBO stand-up series that first aired on February 15, 1989. The half-hour series aired weekly and featured stand-up comedy specials from some of the top performing comedians. The series originally comprised 55 specials over the course of its four years on HBO...
- Best Music Composition – More Amore
- Best Music program – Rock and Roll Cooking Show
- Best Female presenter – Vanity Pets
- Best Male presenter – Vasili's GardenVasili's GardenVasili's Garden is an Australian television gardening program. Hosted by Vasili Kanidiadis, each episode of the show, which is unscripted and largely unedited, focuses on the plants and produce from the garden of a migrant family from Melbourne, with Kanidiadis emphasising traditional methods of...
(Vasili KanidiadisVasili KanidiadisVasili Kanidiadis is a Greek-Australian television personality, best known as the host of the Channel 31 and SBS TV gardening show, Vasili's Garden.Kanidiadis grew up in Coburg in Melbourne's north...
) - Best Live or outside broadcast – Barnaby Flowers
- Best Sports – sk82death
- Best News or Current Affairs – The C News Focus Special
- Best CALD program – Salam CafeSalam CafeSalam Cafe is an Australian comedy talk show. Produced by RMITV, and originally airing on Channel 31 from 31 April 2005 under the title Ramadan TV, the show began a revamped ten week run on the SBS from 7 May 2008...
- Best Camerawork – sk82death
- Best Editing – The Ugly Stick
- Best Director – The Ugly Stick
- Best Producer – Kids Life
- Best Sound – Rock and Roll Cooking Show
- Outstanding Production Achievement – Geraldton on Show
- Program of the Year – Signpost
- Outstanding Contribution to Community Television - Andrew Brine
- Viewers' Choice Award - 4WD TV
2008 Antenna Awards
The 2008 awards ceremony were held at the BMW Edge theatre, Federation Square on Thursday, 24 April, and broadcast on Sunday, 27 April at 7.30pm.- Best Indigenous Program - Noongar Dundjoo
- Nominees: Totally School, Nunga Lounge, Urban Chesspieces, The Marngrook Footy ShowThe Marngrook Footy ShowThe Marngrook Footy Show is a sport panel show broadcast in Australia. It is broadcast as delay on NITV and is now broadcast on ABC2 . It was simulcast on Channel 31...
- Nominees: Totally School, Nunga Lounge, Urban Chesspieces, The Marngrook Footy Show
- Best News or Current Affair Program - Wake Up! WAWake Up! WAWake Up! WA was a breakfast television show broadcast in Western Australia. It aired on Access 31 until the station's demise in 2008.-Overview:...
- Nominees: Tea Tree Gully TV Naturally Better, SKA Story, State Question Time, The Union Show
- Best Camera Work - The Goin' Ballistyx Snowboard Show
- Nominees: Let's Go Birdwatching, Making the Switch, Gasolene, Mystical Guides Haunted Australia
- Best Editing - Making the Switch
- Nominees: The Bazura ProjectThe Bazura ProjectThe Bazura Project is a comedy show about the history of cinema, written and presented by Shannon Marinko and Lee Zachariah. It originally ran on Australian community television from 2006 to 2008, and on ABC2 in late 2011.-Guide To Sinema:...
, Living On the Coast, Flicktease
- Nominees: The Bazura Project
- Best Program that supports New and Emerging Communities - Sri Lanka Morning Show
- Nominees: Talent Pool, SKA Story, VNTV, Pinoy TV
- Best Music Program - Asylum
- Nominees: T Sessions, Pinoy Music Lounge, Songwriters Across Australia, Access All Areas TV
- Best Theme Music Composition - Penguin TV
- Nominees: Play Kool, Room to Grow, Wake Life, No Limits
- Best Young Persons Program - Class TV
- Nominees: Fusion Latina, Totally School, Hit TVHiT TVXit TV is a local Kazakh television station that has been in operation since 7am October 21 2003 as Хит ТВ . It is a dedicated youth oriented music television network showing all the latest music videos from Kazakhstan & abroad. Like many other national music video networks, Xit TV also has regular...
, Minnie Monkey
- Nominees: Fusion Latina, Totally School, Hit TV
- Best Live or Outside Broadcast - The Breakfast Show
- Nominees: WAFL ON, No Limits, Viva Melbourne, Wake Up! WAWake Up! WAWake Up! WA was a breakfast television show broadcast in Western Australia. It aired on Access 31 until the station's demise in 2008.-Overview:...
- Nominees: WAFL ON, No Limits, Viva Melbourne, Wake Up! WA
- Best Lifestyle Program - Making The Switch
- Nominees: Let's Go Bird Watching, Kids Life, Living On the Coast, Latin Dance Alive
- Best Comedy Program - The Bazura Project
- Nominees: Planet NerdPlanet NerdPlanet Nerd is a television comedy variety programme broadcast on Channel 31 Melbourne. It stars local Melbourne comedians Dan Walmsley, Paul Francis Verhoeven, Ben McKenzie, Simon Barber, Jason English-Rees, Andrew Doodson, Lou Pardi, and Rob Lloyd, and features other local Melbourne talent as well...
, Barnaby Flowers Bumper Bonanza, twentysomethingTwentysomething (TV series)-Production Background:Twentysomething is an Australian television comedy series which premiered at 9pm on 6 September on ABC2. The six-part comedy series is created by and stars Jess Harris and Josh Schmidt...
- Nominees: Planet Nerd
- Best Interview Show - Ngulla Pt 1 and 2
- Nominees: The MS Show, The Shtick, Adelaide Vibe, A Life In Crime
- Best Sound - The Gascoyne Dash
- Nominees: The Bazura ProjectThe Bazura ProjectThe Bazura Project is a comedy show about the history of cinema, written and presented by Shannon Marinko and Lee Zachariah. It originally ran on Australian community television from 2006 to 2008, and on ABC2 in late 2011.-Guide To Sinema:...
, The Union Show, Barnaby Flowers, Mystical Guides
- Nominees: The Bazura Project
- Best Sports Program - The Marngrook Footy ShowThe Marngrook Footy ShowThe Marngrook Footy Show is a sport panel show broadcast in Australia. It is broadcast as delay on NITV and is now broadcast on ABC2 . It was simulcast on Channel 31...
- Nominees: ALHL Ice Hockey, The Hockey Show, Ten Pin Bowling, On the Water
- Best Special Presentation - Making MonstersMaking Monsters-DVD Track listing :-Charts:...
- Nominees: The Gascoyne Dash, Mystical Guides, The Marngrook Footy Show Grand Final Show, The Union Show
- Best Arts Program - The Bazura Project
- Nominees: The Green Room, Blurb, Painting with John, Popcorn
- Best CALD Program - ** Sign Post
- Viva Melbourne, Hello Australia, Fusion Latina, Sri Lanka Morning Show
- Best Female Presenter - Emma Race (The Breakfast Show)
- Nominees: Mahlia Simpson (Kids Life), Jodie Raquel (The Italian Guide), Natasha Ferre (The Goin Ballistyx Snowboarding Show), Yvonne Goldsmith (Latin Dance Alive)
- Best Male Presenter - Michael Kuzilny (A Life in Crime)
- Nominees: Phil ClearyPhil ClearyPhilip Ronald Cleary is an Australian commentator on politics and sport, particularly Australian rules football, and a former independent politician elected at the 1992 Wills by-election.-Football playing career:...
(The Union Show), Charlie Barilla (Charlie's KitchenCharlie's KitchenCharlie's Kitchen is a restaurant serving American fare with New England specialties in the Harvard Square neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. “Charlie’s” houses bars on two separate floors; additionally, a front patio and backyard beer garden are open seasonally...
), Nick Ball (The Hockey Show), Todd WrightTodd WrightTodd Wright is an American sports radio personality. He is currently the host of Todd Wright Tonight on Yahoo Sports Radio, which debuted on Monday, June 12, 2006 and airs Monday to Friday from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. ....
(Sign Post)
- Nominees: Phil Cleary
- Best Director - Lee Zachariah (The Bazura Project)
- Nominees: Mystical Guides, Jess Harris & Josh Schmidt (twentysomething), Sylvi Soeharjono (Latin Dance Alive), Peter Weatherall (Penguin TV)
- Producer of the Year - Emma Race (The Breakfast Show)
- Nominees: Tim Egan (The Bazura Project), Michael Curson (Gasolene), Global Vision Media (Making the Switch), Jess Harris (twentysomething)
- Best Program - Making the Switch
- Nominees: The MS Show, The Goin' Ballistyx Snow Boarding Show, Let's Go Bird Watching, Play Kool
- Outstanding Contribution to Community Television - Josie Parrelli
- Viewers' Choice Award - 4WD TV
2009 Antenna Awards
- OUTSTANDING ARTS PROGRAM: The Bazura Project
- OUTSTANDING COMEDY PROGRAM: Talking Comics With Gazz & Dazz
- OUTSTANDING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM: The Red Room
- OUTSTANDING FEMALE PRESENTER: Kat Bergin - TheatreGames LIVE
- OUTSTANDING INTERVIEW PROGRAM: No Limits
- OUTSTANDING LIFESTYLE PROGRAM: Vasili's Garden
- OUTSTANDING MALE PRESENTER: Steve Hurd - No Limits
- OUTSTANDING MUSIC PROGRAM: Scout TV
- OUTSTANDING NEWS PROGRAM: The Union Show
- OUTSTANDING SPECIAL PRESENTATION/ONE OFF PROGRAM: ATVAA - Racing with the Seadragons
- OUTSTANDING CALD PROGRAM: Fusion Latina
- OUTSTANDING CALD PRODUCER: Milano Livera - Fusion Latina
- OUTSTANDING EXTERIOR BROADCAST PROGRAM: Studio A
- OUTSTANDING PROGRAM OF THE YEAR: Studio A
- OUTSTANDING RECREATIONAL PROGRAM: On The Water
- OUTSTANDING SPORTS PROGRAM: The Surfers Life
- OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE: Living On The Coast
- OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION COMMUNITY TV PROGRAM: David McLaughlin
- OUTSTANDING THEME MUSIC: Brain Date
- OUTSTANDING YOUTH PROGRAM: 1700
2010 Antenna Awards
- PROGRAM OF THE YEAR: Dare I Ask?
- OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN TECHNICAL INNOVATION: The Mutant Way
- OUTSTANDING ARTS PROGRAM: Fusion Latina
- OUTSTANDING COMEDY PROGRAM: The Mutant Way
- OUTSTANDING CULTURALLY AND LINGUISTICALLY DIVERSE PROGRAM: The Pinoy Lounge
- OUTSTANDING FACTUAL, CURRENT AFFAIRS OR INTERVIEW PROGRAM: Dare I Ask?
- OUTSTANDING FEMALE PRESENTER: Jackie Doran - The Naughty Rude Show
- OUTSTANDING MALE PRESENTER: Mitch McTaggart - Socially Inadequate
- OUTSTANDING INFORMATION OR LIFESTYLE PROGRAM: Horse Talk TV
- OUTSTANDING LIVE OR OUTSIDE BROADCAST PROGRAM: The Inquiry
- OUTSTANDING MUSIC PROGRAM: Asylum TV
- OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL THEME MUSIC COMPOSITION: Dancing About Architecture – Ben Birchall and Dave McGann
- OUTSTANDING OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL PROGRAM: Hound TV
- OUTSTANDING SPORTS PROGRAM: The Local Footy Show
- OUTSTANDING YOUNG PERSONS PROGRAM: The Naughty Rude Show"
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