CTC Wins Nine Prestigious Russian Television Academy Awards
26 Sep 2008
Moscow – September 26, 2008 – CTC Media, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTCM), Russia's leading independent media company, announced today that it has received Russia's most prestigious television award – TEFI 2008 – in nine categories.
TEFI was established 14 years ago by the National Television Academy to honor professional achievement in television broadcasting. On September 25, the annual TEFI National Television Awards ceremony was held in Moscow. This year, CTC Media’s channels CTC and Domashny were nominated as finalists in 18 out of 50 categories, with CTC earning nine awards, including:
• Alexander Rodnyansky, President of CTC Media, Vyacheslav Murugov, General Producer of CTC Media, and Konstantin Kikichev, General Director of COSTAFILM received an award in the “Movie/Series Producer” category for producing the first original Russian sitcom Daddy’s Girls.
• Daddy’s Girls was named “Best Sitcom” of the year.
• Thank God You Have Come! received an award as “Best Comedy Show”.
• Stories in Detail was the TEFI winner in two categories – “Infotainment Program” and “Cinematography.”
• Mikhail Shvytkoy and Elena Perova were named “Best Talk Show Anchors” for Life is Beautiful.
• Alexandra Zelenova and Alexandra Belousova were TEFI winners in the “TV Program Sound Producer” category for Good Jokes.
• “ÑÒÑ is a Wonderland” – CTC’s latest promo-campaign – received an award for “Best Channel Branding”.
• Series “Thirtysomething” won “Best Promo” award.
Vyacheslav Murugov, General Producer of CTC Media, commented: “9 bronze Orpheus statuettes and 18 nominations are the result of hard work by the CTC Media team during the whole year. I am especially pleased to receive the award in the “Producer” category together with Alexander Rodnyansky. We have come a long way to bring this project into life and are proud of receiving acknowledgement from both viewers (according to ratings) and, importantly, professionals”.
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