Glendale Arizona Internet Television Broadcasters Honored With Gold International Ava Award

(I-Newswire) December 22, 2007 - Arizona, USA, Dec 22,2007--CouryGraph Productions, creator of KKAT-IPTV and Glendale Daily Planet was recently honored by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP) with a gold Ava Award for excellence in news.

"The advent of moving pictures over a century ago spawned a continually changing world for communicating with visual technology. Methods of capturing, recording, processing, storing, and transmitting a sequence of still images has evolved into a technological and creative art form" Ed Dalheim, chairman, advisory board, Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals explains.

He continued: "Technology continues to provide us with new ways to use moving pictures but while the messenger medium evolves, the object is still the same...using a sequence of moving pictures to entertain and inform."

The international Ava Awards recognizes outstanding work in the visual technology industry while promoting the philanthropic nature of marketing and communication professionals.

"Our team is extremely honored by this recognition," said Ed Sharpe, Director of CouryGraph Productions which created KKAT - IPTV for Glendale Daily Planet. "This award reflects the quality of our methodology and work of our engineering staff to implement unique and innovative streaming methods for local programming on the Internet. Sharpe continued, "I think our product is a result of the entire city's interest, advice and participation... " In addition, Sharpe wanted to thank Bill Schreiner, who collaborated on the engineering aspects of the site."

Bill Schreiner comments" The Glendale Daily Planet, despite it's whimsical name, is a serious social/technical experiment in local journalism...." He continued ". The brainchild of long time Glendale resident, Ed Sharpe, The Glendale Daily Planet provides professional quality video journalism at the local level with global distribution"

Sharpe states " It is not just about showing news and events today... Archived footage of all of our shows will be put on file with the appropriate historical societies thus forming a 'time capsule' of video footage representing this time in the city's period of dynamic growth."

Schreiner continued: "As a volunteer engineering and I.T. technical consultant to The Planet, and long time Internet broadcaster, I consider working with Ed as a privilege and assisting in this endeavor as a public service: an experiment in true local democracy. The Glendale Daily Planet should serve as a prototype for small community Internet TV stations nationwide."


CouryGraph Productions won the international Ava Awards (http://www.avaawards.com) for its Internet Television Channel KKAT-IPTV and Glendale Daily Planet, which are an online news source for Glendale Arizona. The international Ava Awards recognizes outstanding work in the industry while promoting the philanthropic nature of marketing and communication professionals.
Sharpe had one honorable mention also in the 2007 Ava Awards for The documentary of The City Of Glendale's Public Works Week Proclamation which he created for the city to use on the National Public Works Week website, ( http://www.apwa.net/About/NPWW/2007/celebrations.asp ). This video had won several other national awards.
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Ed Sharpe
CouryGraph Productions
Arizona, USA
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