Access Tucson Best in the West–Again!
Posted October 29th, 2008 by lisa in Front Page, NewsAccess Tucson received 3 WAVE awards at the recent Alliance for Community Media Western Region Conference held in Denver, Colorado. With 334 entries, the winners were announced at the WAVE Awards Ceremony on October 24, 2008 in Denver.
The WAVE Awards were created in 1988 to recognize and promote the best in local community programming produced in the Western region of the Alliance for Community Media (ACM). The Western region includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada and New Mexico.
And the WAVE awards go to…
Mark Jordan, Uprising Times
Mark Jordan for Uprising Times in the Talk Show – Entertainment category as a professional entrant. Up Rising Productions presents music and comedy jam.
Keith Smith, Protraits of Compassion: The Sober Project
Community producer, Keith Smith for Portraits of Compassion: The Sober Project in the Public Service Announcment category. This PSA highlights the Sober Project’s efforts to provide recovery services to people affected by addictions.
The WAVE awards were held at The Cable Center, Denver, CO
And for the second year in a row Access Tucson has received The Community Media Excellence Award. The judges viewed 50 clips featuring programs created by individual producers and community programming highlighting the work of non-profits and government agencies produced by Access Tucson.
J. Robertson, ACM West Chair presents Access Tucson staff Jim Thomas and Lisa Horner with the 2008 Overall Excellence Award
Since 1984, Access Tucson has given community-wide voice to not only thousands of individuals, but also to hundreds of groups and organizations. The majority of these organizations are non-profits with little or no budget available for television production services to spread the word about the help they provide. Access Tucson provides, free of charge, television production staff, training, equipment and channel resources to all Tucsonans.