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Glendale, AZ: 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.
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"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."
Finally Sharpe wanted to extend his thanks to other people in the
newspaper, radio, television and cable industry that have counseled him
and provided an example of technique and values. "I would be
nothing without them" Sharpe stated.
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 are for creative professionals and organizations involved in
the concept, writing and design of traditional and emerging .film,
analog and digital productions viewed in a wide variety of mediums- from
movie screens to televisions to computer screens and mobile devices..
"The judges were impressed with the effort and use of technology in
creating a truly 'local' news operation yet allowing global
accessibility online" said Ed Dalheim, chairman, advisory board,
Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals.
Dalheim continued "Ed Sharpe is
ahead of his time. At a time when technology is instantly bringing world
news to our computer screens, Ed is using the same technology to put the
"local" back into news. "
The international Ava Awards recognizes outstanding work in the
industry while promoting the philanthropic nature of marketing and
communication professionals. The awards, chosen from 1,700 entries this
year, are administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and
Communication Professionals (http://www.amcpros.com).
The international organization consists of several thousand marketing,
communication, advertising, public relations, media production and
free-lance professionals.
As part of its mission, AMCP fosters and supports the efforts of
creative professionals who contribute their unique talents to public
service and charitable organizations. Ava entrants are not charged
entry fees to enter work they produced pro bono. In addition, the
efforts of generous marketing and communication professionals are
acknowledged through grants and special recognition.
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.
About CouryGraph Productions / Glendale Daily Planet /
KKAT-IPTV in Glendale, AZ
Glendale Daily Planet, the parent organization of KKAT-IPTV was started
in 2004 as the first community journalism news site in Glendale and
perhaps all of Arizona, Serving The Metro West Side of the Valley of the
Sun, Glendale Daily Planet has witnessed, participated in and recorded
the further rejuvenation of the downtown core, the meteoric rise of the
'Glendale Sports Empire' and the restoration of historic sections of the
town.
One aspect Sharpe is most proud of is the ability to have a continuous
24/7 stream of archived footage in the player but yet, when a special
event arises, have the ability to go live interrupting the
pre-programmed content to cover the event. With the advent of higher
speed EVDO radio cards and compact portable satellite terminals the
options are limitless.
Residents can now catch stories of interest on their schedule, taking
advantage of the on-demand character of Internet media. No more waiting
for 5 or 10pm and no need to program the TiVo. Important stories remain
available, a mouse click away, for years in the online archives..
 Sharpe
is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS),
Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE), Independent Feature Project (IFP)
(IFP/PHX), Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Society of Professional
Journalists (SPJ), National Press Photographers Association (NPPA),
Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation (SMECC).
Arizona Council of Engineering and Scientific Associations (ACESA),
Media Communications Association-International Association (MCAI) and
other associations.
The work of Ed Sharpe from CouryGraph Productions and other
participative community journalists and engineering staff may be viewed,
24-hours a day, seven days a week at www.glendaledailyplanet.com
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CouryGraph
Productions Winner of 2 AVA Awards
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