College TV earns awards

Maricopa Colleges Television has recently received two prestigious awards highlighting outstanding television production.

The station has garnered the bronze Telly Award, which honors excellent local, regional and cable television commercials and programs, as well as video and film productions. MCTV was recognized in the live event category for its coverage of the 13th Annual Gene Autry Courage Awards held in Tempe in March.

MCTV also received the winner’s trophy in the 16th Annual Aegis Award competition, which honors outstanding television and video production. The honor was given for a series about Arizona state historian Marshall Trimble that was featured on the station’s news magazine show Maricopa Now in February, April and March.

MCTV is the Maricopa County Community College District’s cable television station that provides programming to viewers throughout the Phoenix metropolitan area on Cox Communications Digital Channel 115. Information about MCTV can be found at www.maricopa.edu/mctv.



This article appears in the September 2006 issue of Latino Perspectives Magazine.

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