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2008 CBA Broadcasting Awards


 

 

BBC, SBS Australia, All India Radio, Doordarshan (India), and New Delhi Television (India) are the main winners of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association's Broadcasting Awards for 2008. The awards were presented in Nassau, Bahamas on Thursday 24 January. The prestigious Elizabeth R Award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Service Broadcasting was awarded to Jean-Gabriel Manguy, former head of Radio Australia.

The CBA-Rolls-Royce Award for Exceptional News Feature has been awarded to BBC for the television programme India's Silk Slaves which uncovers the disturbing evidence of a form of slavery happening in India today in the silk industry in southern India.

Doordarshan (India) is the winner of the CBA-World Bank Award for Programmes on Development Issues with a television programme God's Own Crops, reflecting the success story of a group of women farmers who have shown that food sovereignty of agrarian communities is the need of the hour.

The CBA-UNESCO Award for Science Reporting and Programming has been won by All India Radio for the radio programme The Drop that Counts - an unusual musical feature for children that deals with the general science of the universe,

The CBA-Amnesty International Award for Human Rights Programme has been awarded to SBS (Australia) for the television feature Race for the Beach - a programme dealing with the struggle of a hijab wearing Muslim girl and 20 other young Muslims to become surf life savers at Sydney's Cornulla beaches in the wake of the anti-Muslim race riots in Australia.

The CBA-IBC Award for Innovative Engineering has been won by New Delhi Television (India).

Indian television reporter Sutapa Deb of New Delhi Television won the CBA-Thomson Foundation Journalist of the Year Award, while the Elizabeth R Award for Exceptional Contribution to Public Service Broadcasting has been awarded to Jean-Gabriel Manguy, former head of Radio Australia for his success in trying to promote, strengthen and preserve public service broadcasting even in adverse circumstances.

 


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