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Glendale Arizona's
CouryGraph Productions
and Mayor Elaine Scruggs Awarded 2009 Telly Award
Ed
Sharpe, director of CouryGraph Productions and founder of The Glendale Daily
Planet/ KKAT Streaming TV - Glendale's homegrown community Internet video news
source, received the Bronze Telly Award in recognition for online
programming. Ed shares this award with Mayor Elaine Scruggs who offered up
a humorous two minute challenge to Philadelphia's Mayor Michael Nutter in
this online news segment.
The
Telly Award honors outstanding local, regional and national cable TV
commercials and programs, as well as video and film productions. The award
organization annually showcases the best work of advertising agencies,
production companies, television stations, cable operators and corporate
video departments.
Mayor Elaine Scruggs
of Glendale Arizona and Ed Sharpe of CouryGraph
Productions display the 2009 Telly award for the
Chocolate Challenge production.
The
Telly Awards receives in excess of 13,000 entries each year from 50 states
and foreign countries.
 "It
is honor to receive a highly respected national award for work in
publicizing events that take place in the city of Glendale,"
Sharpe said. "The Telly awards highlight the high standards of
excellence we wish to achieve. In addition, it is our wish to provide our
viewership with information they can trust and enjoy."
To
demonstrate Mayor Scruggs' confidence in the Arizona Cardinals'
ability to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday's Playoff game, she
challenged Mayor Michael Nutter to a friendly wager. If the Cardinals prevail, Mayor Nutter agreed to
hand out
Glendale’s own Cerreta Chocolate at a future City Council Meeting. In
the event the Eagles prevail, Mayor Scruggs would hand out Hershey
Chocolate at a Glendale City Council Meeting. We know
that the Cardinals prevailed thus sending them to the Super Bowl and Cerreta Chocolate
was enjoyed in Philadelphia!
Mayor
Scruggs explains, "Mayors' challenges
are one of Super Bowl's traditions." She
continued, "I am happy Ed Sharpe was
there to report on and record this event which was
part of a memorable season for the Arizona
Cardinals and the City of Glendale."
Glendale
Daily Planet / KKAT-IPTV covers many stories during
the sporting events that take place in Glendale and
also general community journalism. Always
quick to share stories, photographs and video with other
publications, Sharpe's work is seen in many
places.
Sharpe
stated, "Mayor Scruggs is humorous and easy to work with on camera, very spontaneous
and able to compose a speech on the fly. It is great to work
with someone you can get usable footage in just one take!"
Mayor Elaine Scruggs - Glendale Arizona
The
CouryGraph Productions and Mayor Scruggs also netted Honorable Mention for
this presentation in the Hermes Creative Awards Competition this
year also.
The
work of CouryGraph Productions and other participative community
journalists may be viewed 24 hours a day, seven days a week at www.glendaledailyplanet.com.
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