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Photo: Joseph Leone
Queens Public Television Receives Overall Excellence Award
This is QPTV’s third consecutive year winning Overall
Excellence in Public Access from the Alliance 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.
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
QPTV board of directors and staff members were on
hand to receive the award on Thursday, July 13, 2017, at
the annual conference in Minneapolis. Pictured above from
left to right: board members Joan Serrano-Laufer, Sandra
Delson, and Henry Kee; Daniel J. Leone, President /CEO;
Roslyn Nieves, Community Development Manager; James
Faber, Web Design & Digital Media Coordinator; and board
member Alfred Harris.
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.
Watch the winning Overall Excellence reel at
https://goo.gl/icXfNr
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37 For more information contact Roslyn Nieves, Community Development Outreach Manager: (718) 886-8160 ext. 324 communitydevelopment@qptv.org
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