6 THE QUEENS COURIER • JULY 13, 2017 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT WWW.QNS.COM
Queens Public Television Wins Overall Excellence in Public Access for Third Consecutive Year
from the 2017 Alliance For Community Media National Hometown Competition
The Overall Excellence reel illustrates how QPTV programming
addresses our community’s needs. The reel includes:
• The Stem Girls – The Tech Crew
• Power Women of Queens Episode 5 Dana Horn
• Culture Express Steinway & Sons Piano Factory Part 2
• Black History Month PSA
• Election 2016 - Live Election Night Coverage
• NYC Jr. Ambassadors PSA
• Power Youth of Queens Noran Omar
• LGBT Network PSA
• Around Queens Brag Party
• Queens Perspectives: Animal Cruelty Prosecutions Unit with Chief
Nicoletta J. Caferri
• Culture Express LIC Arts Open
• Women’s History Moment PSA
• Kids Perspective: Creative Communication with Cops and Kids
• Queens Perspectives: Office of Immigrant Affairs with Director
Carmencita N. Gutierrez
• A Clip in Time: Aunt Alice 101 and Counting A Cobbler’s Wife:
Our Story
• Power Women of Queens Episode 3 Sister Margaret McCabe
Queens Public Television
The Most Diverse Television for the Most
Diverse Place on Earth
Queens Public Television | Daniel J. Leone, President/CEO
Board of Directors: Patrick J. DiMotta, Chairman; Nayibe Berger;
Sandra Delson; Stuart Domber; John B. Haney; Alfred Harris; Henry Kee;
Joan Serrano-Laufer; Ruth Schlossman
Honorary Directors: Joel A. Miele, Sr., Director Laureate;
William L. Jefferson, Director Emeritus
This is QPTV’s third consecutive year winning Overall
Excellence in Public Access from the Aliance for Community
Media (ACM) National Hometown competition, for a total
of four wins in the past five years! Having previously won
in 2013, 2015, and 2016, QPTV is thrilled to receive this top
honor again in 2017.
Overall Excellence in Public Access entries are submitted
to the ACM by various access organizations, cable
companies, educational institutions, local government,
or other institutions that provide Public, Educational, or
Governmental (P.E.G.) Access services throughout the
United States.
As an access center, QPTV submitted a compilation of
programs that reflect the diversity in the borough of Queens.
The video clips that corresponded to the Overall Excellence
reel illustrated how QPTV Programming addressed our
diverse community’s needs.
QPTV will receive the award at the ACM annual
conference, this year taking place in Minneapolis, MN.
The Overall Excellence reel and programs
can be viewed at qptv.org!
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37 For more information contact Roslyn Nieves, Community Development Outreach Supervisor: (718) 886-8160 ext. 324 communitydevelopment@qptv.org
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