Winners

On the 13th of June, Yorkshire’s television community gathered The Queens Hotel in Leeds to honour another year of excellence in television.

Mike Best, chairman of the RTS-Yorkshire branch said; “There is a wealth of experience and talent in the region and the work of this year’s winners highlights that. This year’s awards were a wonderful celebration of that talent. The competition in each and every category was extremely close, which just goes to show what a wealth of creativity we have on offer in Yorkshire.”

Steve Arnold, who received the Shiers Trust Award in 2008 has been given a further grant in 2010. While researching the Radio Times Television Supplements at BBC Written Archives Steve discovered two previously unseen files containing the day-to-day paperwork of the Radio Times Television Supplement in 1936-37.

The 2009 Shiers Trust Grant was awarded to Ronald Sandell for the development of his book entitled Seventy Years Before the Masts – Coverage Planning and Propagation Research in the BBC.

My research project Screen Plays, which has been honoured with the 2010 Shiers Award, is concerned with the presentation of theatre plays on British television. My aim is to publish a book tracing the history of the translation of theatre plays to the small screen but initially I am launching a blog on the subject.

The Royal Television Society (RTS), Britain’s leading forum for television and related media, announced the winners of the RTS Television Journalism Awards 2009/2010, at a ceremony held last night in London. The evening was hosted by Channel 4 newsreader, Krishnan Guru-Murthy.

The RTS Television Journalism Awards celebrate creativity and excellence in journalism in UK news and current affairs, both by organisations broadcasting in the UK and by companies which supply UK news broadcasters.

*ANIMATION CATEGORY: 'PEST' IADT DUN LAOGHAIRE, DIRECTOR DARRAGH DUFFY

FACTUAL CATEGORY: 'EXOTICA' DIT DUBLIN DIRECTOR NEASA DE BARRA

*DRAMA CATEGORY: 'AUNT' IADT DUN LAOGHAIREL, DIRECTOR NARAYAN VAN MAELE

*'PEST' and 'AUNT' were selected as nominations for the national finals.

ANIMATION CATEGORY: 'WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ULTRA MAN' IADT DUN LAOGHAIRE: AWARD RECIPIENT JOHN WALSH

FACTUAL CATEGORY: 'BEATEN TRACK' DIT DUBLIN, AWARD RECIPIENT KEELIN HUGHES & TEAM

FICTION CATEGORY: 'SMALL CHANGE' IADT DUN LAOGHAIRE,

AWARD RECIPIENT: CATHY BRADY, TOM FITZPATRICK & TEAM

Awards were presented by Steve Carson, Director of TV Programmes RTE.

RTS Student Television Awards

Animation

Winner: Ed Foster: Pensioner Penny, Hull School of Art & Design
Nominee: Ed Talfan: Morris, Edinburgh College of Art
Nominee: Mark Boyle: Mugshot, Edinburgh College of Art
Nominee: Yukihiro Tsujita: Mr Smith, Kingston University

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RTS Student Television Awards

Animation

Winner: Claire Billett, Douglas Pipes: Anti-Bullying Campaign, Kingston University
Nominee: Emma Lazenby: Something Missing, Hull School of Art & Design
Nominee: Chris Walley: The Car Race, Edinburgh College of Art

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RTS Student Television Awards

Animation

Winner: Anwyn Beier: Nightlife, Edinburgh College of Art
Nominee: Steve Cox: The Package, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Nominee: Tom Hodgson, Wesley Elliott, Thomas Goldsmith, Helen Turner, David Hanna: The Lifters, University of Bradford

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