DENVER, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Two Comcast MetroBeat TV programs were recognized with top awards from The New York Festivals (http://www.newyorkfestivals.com/) at ceremonies held on February 2 at the Downtown Auditorium in New York City. The gold world medal was given to "Inside the Cover," the show about books and writing, in the Family Programs category. The "Student Voices" teen discussion program was given a bronze world medal for teen programming.
New York Festivals' International Television Programming and Promotion Awards recognize "The world's best work" in news, documentary, information and entertainment programming as well as in music videos, infomercials, promotion spots, openings and ID's. Now entering its 48th year, the total number of entries in TV Programming continues to grow. Judging of the entries was carried out by several hundred producers, directors, writers and other media professionals in the U.S. and around the world.
Launched in November 2005, MetroBeat TV today consists of three monthly programs that air simultaneously twice a week in 25 Denver metro communities on Comcast Channel 8. The programming is also streamed online at http://www.metrobeat.tv/ and available On Demand anytime with Comcast Digital service.
The project was created by Comcast in collaboration with local Colorado Front Range communities to explore new potential uses of cable television technologies that could meet both the unique needs of local communities beyond the current television models, and increase the value of community programming to citizens at a regional level.
About Comcast:
Comcast Corporation (http://www.comcast.com/) is the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services. With 24.1 million cable customers, 11 million high-speed Internet customers, and 2.1 million voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.
Comcast's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, AZN Television, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One and four regional Comcast SportsNets. Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.
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