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BBC
London celebrates four Race In the Media Awards
BBC
Television and Radio were celebrating today as they scooped eight
of the 12 awards available to broadcasters at the annual Race in
The Media Awards organised by the Commission for Racial Equality.
BBC
London won four awards - two for television and two for the radio
station, BBC London 94.9FM.
BBC
London News Special Correspondent Kurt Barling was joint
winner of the Television News Award for his overall body of work.
BBC
London's television documentary series, First Sight, took
the award for Children/Youth with a revealing documentary about
young people sent to an army "boot camp" - The Peckham
Boys.
BBC
London 94.9FM's Eddie Nestor won the Radio News award for
his weekend evening show on the station and the station's Community
Affairs Unit took the Radio Music and Entertainment Award for their
I Love Carnival programme.
Mike
MacFarlane, Executive Editor for BBC London, said: "This is
a sensational achievement for BBC London and one which demonstrates
our commitment to reflecting and serving the entire London community."
In
the awards - held today (Friday 11 April 2003) at the Savoy Hotel,
London - BBC
TWO's The Kumars at No 42 was named Best Entertainment Show.
The
channel also won best factual programme for Blood and Fire,
about the story of Jamaican Independence.
Best
factual radio programme was won by BBC Radio Leicester for their
Myths about Muslims series broadcast during the festival
of Ramadan last year.
The
Radio Drama Award was won by Crime And Punishment In Dalston
for BBC Radio 3.
All the
BBC's digital services are now available on Freeview,
the new free-to-view digital terrestrial television service, as well
as on satellite and cable.
Freeview
offers the BBC's eight television channels, interactive services
from BBCi, as well as 11 BBC radio networks.
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