RT secures 13 nominations at New York Festivals

24 February 2016

RT’s channels have secured 13 finalist spots in one of the world’s largest news and documentaries festivals.

Stuck in Yemen, RT’s coverage of the evacuation of U.S. and U.K. citizens from Yemen following air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition, will be competing with CNN, PBS and Al Jazeera for the trophy in the Best Coverage of Continuing News Story division. RT also facilitated Russia’s efforts to get Yemen residents from the U.S. and U.K. out of the country.

 

RT’s special reportage on the United Nation’s General Assembly meeting in September 2015 and RT America’s coverage of the Baltimore protests that erupted after the death of Freddie Gray are both nominated for Best Newscast.

 

In the Now, RT’s daily current affairs and media commentary program, is in the finals of the Best News Analysis/Commentary category, while  Ameera David is nominated as best News Anchor for hosting  financial show Boom/Bust on RT America.

 

Four of RT’s documentaries made the cut: Trauma, about the humanitarian crisis in eastern Ukraine, in the Current Affairs category; Sleepy Hollow, Kazakhstan, about a sleeping anomaly in a small Kazakh village, as an Environment & Ecology feature; Her War: Woman Vs ISIS – among National/International Affairs documentaries; and Sumud. 40 Years of Resistance, focused on the refugees from western Sahara, by RT Spanish, in the Politics category.

 

The final four nominations went to RT’s promo projects: Cosmotrek, Politicking with Larry King, Victory Day 70 (RT’s special project dedicated to the anniversary of the Great Patriotic War), and RT 2035 video, created to celebrate the network’s 10 years on air in 2015. The viral clip imagines the channel 20 years from now, with retired President Barak Obama and Secretary John Kerry lamenting the changes in the world.

 

New York Festival’s World’s Best Television & Films competition honors programming in all lengths and forms from over 50 countries in Television and Film industries. The 2016 awards ceremony will take place on April 19, 2016 in Las Vegas at NAB Show.

 

RT is a global TV news network that broadcasts 24/7 in English, Arabic and Spanish from its studios in Moscow, Washington, DC, and London.  It is available to 700 million viewers worldwide. RT is the most watched TV news network on YouTube with more than 3 billion views. It is the winner of the Monte Carlo TV Festival Award for best 24-hr broadcast, and the only Russian TV channel to garner three nominations for the prestigious International Emmy Awards for News. (Source: RT press release)

 

RT wins New York Festivals medal for Julian Assange talk show

11 April 2013

The Julian Assange Show, RT’s weekly interview program, won Silver World Medal in the Documentary/Information Program: Politics television category. The 12-episodes series aired exclusively on RT from April through July 2012 and featured exclusive interviews with some of the most influential and iconoclastic politicians and thinkers of the day. The program generated a media firestorm, was reported on by the most prominent media organizations and discussed in a multitude of blogs across the world.

The Silver World Medal that RT was awarded for The Julian Assange Show was the highest honor awarded this year in the Politics category. The only other entry honored in that category received a Bronze.

RT also won the New York Festivals Gold Medal in the Information/Magazine Program Promotion category, with its promo for From The Shadows (Desde la Sombra), a weekly show hosted by renowned author and public speaker Daniel Estulin on RT’s Spanish channel. The program takes a closer look into the secrets held by world’s business and political elites.

RT has previously been a laureate of New York Festivals in 2009, in the Best News Documentary category. Then, the network won Silver World Medal for “A city of desolate mothers” – RT’s special report on South Ossetia.

The New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards honors the World’s Best Television & Films. This year’s Awards received entries from 50 countries from around the world. RT competed with such high-profile international broadcasters as BBC, CNBC, CNN, Deutshe Welle, ESPN, HBO, NHK, and TVE and was named a finalist in 5 out of the total 15 categories. The award ceremony took place on April 9th at NAB in Las Vegas.