{"id":842,"date":"2010-08-12T04:54:05","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T18:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=842"},"modified":"2010-08-12T04:54:05","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T18:54:05","slug":"pinoy-lounge-program-receives-australian-tv-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Pinoy Lounge program receives Australian TV Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The program received this year\u2019s Australian Antennas Award in the<br \/>\nOutstanding Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Program category.<\/p>\n<p>The program won from a group of five finalists which included Fusion<br \/>\nLatina, Sri Lankan Morning Show, Hungarian TV and VNTV.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognises the great effort and hard work by the crew in<br \/>\nbringing the Filipino-Australian community\/culture into the Australian<br \/>\nmainstream and to highlight aspects of the Philippines in a positive and<br \/>\nentertaining way.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Antenna Awards showcase outstanding achievement in locally produced programs which are broadcast on Community TV stations across Australia.<\/p>\n<p>First beginning in 2004, The Antenna Awards recognise the best community television programming from across Australia. These awards celebrate Australia&#8217;s diversity and bring together the best new talent from a wide range of communities and cultures, interests and perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>These awards are often attended by over 450 representatives from the<br \/>\ncommunity television sector, the film and television industry, local<br \/>\nbusiness and local, state and federal governments.<\/p>\n<p>Community television occupies an important place in Australia&#8217;s media<br \/>\nlandscape. It is Australia&#8217;s training ground for aspiring film and television professionals and fosters new talent, niche interest programming and cultural diversity. C31 Melbourne alone is home to 46 community production groups, through which hundreds of volunteers are engaged in community television production. Over 90 new, locally produced programs are broadcast each week in over 20 languages.<\/p>\n<p>The 2010 Awards was held at BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne,<br \/>\nAustralia on the 27th of June. \u2013 ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The program received this year\u2019s Australian Antennas Award in the Outstanding Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Program category. The program won from a group of five finalists which included Fusion Latina, Sri Lankan Morning Show, Hungarian TV and VNTV. The award recognises the great effort and hard work by the crew in bringing the Filipino-Australian community\/culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}