Here are the winners of the 3rd annual UP Gandingan Awards 2009 organized by the UP Community Broadcasters’ Society at UP Los Baños:
Best News Anchor: Korina Sanchez
Best Panel Moderator: Ted Failon
Best Talk Show: Boy and Kris
Best Talk Show Host: Boy Abunda
Best Public Affairs Program Host: Jessica Soho
Best Investigative Program Host: Mike Enriquez
Best Public Service Program Host: Vicky Morales
Best Field Reporter: Jiggy Manicad
Best Documentary Filmmaker - Howie Severino
Best Morning Show: Umagang Kay Ganda
Best Music Station: MYX
Best FM Station: Alam mo na yan 101.9
Best Disc Jock: Martin D.
Best VJ: Iya Villania
Best AM Station: DZMM
Best Investigative Program - Imbestigador
Most Development-Oriented Documentary Program - I-Witness
Best Public Service Program - Wish Ko Lang
Most Development-Oriented Magazine Program - Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho
Most Development-Oriented TV Station - Q11
Best AM Announcer: Korina Sanchez
Most Development-oriented Panel Discussion: Harapan
Most Development-oriented Radio Station: DZMM
Best Network: ABS-CBN
The awards are a tribute to socially-oriented television and radio programs and broadcasters and are meant to inspire the youth.
Read more ...The Chinese year begins on January 26, 2009 and it is considered the year of the Ox (Ji Chou).
It ends 15 days later with the observance of the Lantern Festival. The celebration will be observed by the Filipino-Chinese community with several popular traditions meant to attract good fortune and health, prosperity, closer family ties, and peace in every household — festivals, parades, dragon and lion dances, fireworks, family gatherings, and visiting friends and relatives.
Homes have been thoroughly cleaned, fruits believed to invite good fortune will be placed on tables, Lucky money in red envelopes, sweets will be served, and food will be in abundance.
Saying Happy New Year to your Chinese friends is not enough, you should share the following good wishes or Chinese New Year Greetings:
新年快乐！xīn nián kuài lè - Happy New Year!
过年好！ ɡuò nián hǎo - Happy New Year!
恭喜发财！ɡōnɡ xǐ fā cái - I wish You Great Prosperity!
牛年吉祥！ niú nián jí xiáng - Good Luck in the Year of the Ox!
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My Bloody Valentine 3D is a horror remake from Lionsgate starring Jensen Ackles, Tom Atkins, Megan Boone and Betsy Rue.
Synopsis: Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. Then, exactly one year later, on Valentine’s Day, Harry Warden woke up–and brutally murdered twenty-two people with a pickaxe before being killed. Ten years later, Tom Hanniger returns to Harmony on Valentine’s Day, still haunted by the deaths he caused. Struggling to make amends with his past, he grapples with unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend Sarah, who is now married to his best friend Axel, the town sheriff. But tonight, after years of peace, something from Harmony’s dark past has returned. Wearing a miner’s mask and armed with a pickaxe, an unstoppable killer is on the loose. And as his footsteps come ever closer, Tom, Sarah and Axel realize in terror it just might be Harry Warden who’s come back to claim them.
Here are the winners from the Philippines of the 2009 New York Festivals.
Gold World Medal
Jiggy Manicad’s 24 Oras (GMA-7) coverage of Corporal Abeto (Coverage of an Ongoing Story category)
Q11’s Inno Sotto: A Special Fashion Documentary (Biography/Profiles Category)
ABS-CBN’s Variety Special for the 10th Anniversary Special of Bantay Bata 163
Silver World Medal
24 Oras’ (GMA-7) coverage of “Lanao Attacks” (Best Newscast Category)
ABS-CBN’s Boy & Kris (Talk/Interview)
ABS-CBN’s Mars Ravelo’s Lastikman (Action/Adventure)
Korina Sanchez (Investigative Report for her expose on substandard food supplements)
Bronze World Medal
Reporter’s Notebook’s (GMA-7) “Pinays for Export: The Asian Sex Trafficking Trail” (Best Public Affairs Program)
Q Channel 11’s Chef to Go with its “Pesco Vegetarian Meal” episode (Magazine Format Category)
Finalist certificates
Joaquin Bordado for the Action/ Adventure category
Emergency’s “Jumper Kids/Battered Children” for the Social Issues/Current Events Category
I-Witness’ “Crystal Mountain” for the Community Portraits Category
The Sweet Life for the Magazine Format Category
Ang Pinaka’s “Ang Pinaka Sikat na Pinoy sa Internet” for the Magazine Format Category
News on Q’s “Batasan Blast” for the Coverage of Breaking News Category
Draw the Line’s “Ormoc Cult, Early Marriage and Trafficking” episode for the Social Issues/Current Events Category
Kung Fu Kids for Children’s Program
Wowowee for Family Program
Rated K for Magazine Format
The New York Festivals, established some 51 years ago, recognizes work in a number of areas from documentaries to music videos and infomercials. Competitors include international and Asian broadcasters such as BBC, ESPN and Fuji Television Network.
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