Russian RBC-TV channel won "best Euro news channel-2008", beats BBC, Bloomberg and France-24

[Shurup]

Russian RBC-TV news channel won "The HOT BIRD TV Awards 2008" in the "news" category. In 2007 this award was given to France-24 and SkyTG-24,
in 2006 it was awarded to BBC World , in 2005 - to SkyNews International, in 2004 it was awarded to BBC World, RaiNews and RaiMed.


Another Russian channel "365 Days TV" won the first prize in Culture/Education category and "NTV-Plus" won the "Special Award" as the most dinamically
developing channel in Europe.

http://www.hotbirdtvawards.com/winners_list_2008.html


Edit.Rather insulting. Atrum Prodigium

[Phileas Fogg]

Interesting.


OK, that's it, I think this thread is completely irrelevant after the summarizing note above was said, and can be locked.

[Markas]

A French-owned satellite company has a Russian company as the winners. Wow. I thought Eurovision voting was bad.

[Panzerbear]

haha .

just wait. they will come back with the usual "Russian media is still under Kremlin's thumb" cliche and that Putin murders journalists and eats babies for breakfast.

[Каие]

So how are the winners chosen? Because according to your link the Jury prize goes to Euronews, if it's the public who chose....epic fail.

[Markas]

So how are the winners chosen? Because according to your link the Jury prize goes to Euronews, if it's the public who chose....epic fail.

In Putin's Russia, awards win you.

In all fairness I've never seen RBC-TV and they are probably very professional, informative and deserve it so well done them.

[Каие]

I too was going to offer congratulations and offer to watch it, but then I saw this;


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[Bovril]

According to Freedom House, Russia ranks joint 164th (alongside Azerbaijan) out of 195 countries sampled in terms of media freedom. link

I'm not a massive fan of Freedom House, but I thought I'd put it out there.


Edit: I noticed Fox Italy won the fiction award.

[Dr. Croccer]

According to Freedom House, Russia rank 165 out of 195 countries sampled in terms of media freedom. link

I'm not a massive fan of Freedom House, but I thought I'd put it out there.

Germany 17th? Poof, there goes the credibility of that link.

[Bovril]

Germany 17th? Poof, there goes the credibility of that link.

To be fair, its not like North Korea was above them. They're on a par with Ireland and the US. They're doing well. When you have laws about Holocaust denial and displaying Swasticas you can't expect to be no. 1.

[Dr. Croccer]

To be fair, its not like North Korea was above them. They're on a par with Ireland and the US. They're doing well. When you have laws about Holocaust denial and displaying Swasticas you can't expect to be no. 1.

The Germans are against anything Nazi, however their version of ''Nazi'' encompasses alot of forms of German Nationalism. They don't ban all of it with MPs or whatever but there is a notable taboo on German history. It doesn't list them along the Axis of Evil but I think the US scores higher than them.

[Bovril]

The Germans are against anything Nazi, however their version of ''Nazi'' encompasses alot of forms of German Nationalism. They don't ban all of it with MPs or whatever but there is a notable taboo on German history. It doesn't list them along the Axis of Evil but I think the US scores higher than them.

Oh I see, you think they are too high. My mistake. You may be right. I think the reason the US doesn't do so well is that the media is incredibly centralised, meaning it is controlled, largely speaking, by just a few corporations.

[Philos Sophos]

Well,I don't know if it matters but...it's a business news channel...

Do they show the other news as well,like the Georgian conflict?...I just wanted to ask...

Other than that,congratulations...

[Markas]

Well,I don't know if it matters but...it's a business news channel...

Do they show the other news as well,like the Georgian conflict?...I just wanted to ask...

Other than that,congratulations...

Got a clip of RBC-TV here.

[Kiljan Arslan]

Got a clip of RBC-TV here.

umm I got a clip of winning as the soviets in Red Alert.

[Каие]

umm I got a clip of winning as the soviets in Red Alert.

It wouldn't even surprise me!

[Markas]

umm I got a clip of winning as the soviets in Red Alert.

Imagine that. Can't think how that happened.

[attilavolciak07]

At least RBC-TV is in cooperation with CNN and CNBC, it makes them fair and even, unlike certain Russian state-owned news agencies, take Pravda for example:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Nikitn]

Attilasloviak, Pravda.Ru isn't state owned.. It's a normal tabloid newspaper.

[Heinz Guderian]

Does anyone know what happened to War Nerd? I liked him.