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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Use of HD Technology
Sure, hockey buffs get excited about a network that provides a flexible, fan-centric approach to covering their sport. So they’re cheering HDNet’s commitment to updating its NHL schedule every two months to ensure coverage of the most compelling...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Online/Mobile Extras for a Linear Show
A promotion that’s truly out of this world? Travel’s online and mobile support for its Eastern State Penitentiary segment of Most Haunted Live certainly fits the bill, and we commend the network for — ahem — getting viewers into the...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Online-Only/Mobile-Only Show
Talk about walking on the wild side. The lovely Isabella Rossellini schooled us in a whole new kind of sex education in this project commissioned for the Sundance Web site. Its pop culture impact is priceless. From the actress who deadpans, "I was always...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Video on Demand Program/Special
As many a dedicated parent can tell you, high school sports is where the action’s really at. So CableFAX: The Magazine offers three cheers for Time Warner Cable for providing coverage not only of statewide championship-level games for sports-hungry fans...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Surprise Ending
It says something about our society that TV gets ratings when it provides cliff-hangers replete with bombings and shootings. What began with "Who Shot J.R.?" continues today. Who among us didn’t watch the final season of The Sopranos thirsting...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Most Unrealistic Scene That Was Most Entertaining
Let’s face it — sometimes you’ve just got to buy in to a program’s premise to reap the entirely entertaining rewards it will shower on you as the plot unfurls. It is with that mind-set that we bestow top honors on the...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Producer
Here’s proof positive that a great idea, stalwart conviction and perseverance can bubble into magic. The indefatigable Liese turned a homespun project filming 12 girls’ experiences throughout high school into a nationally viewed series that opened...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Actor/Actress/Host, Talk Show
Surprise setups, prank phone calls and hidden cameras reign on Irish comedian-cum-talk-show-host Norton’s extravaganza. So it’s no wonder celebrity guests occasionally duck out of their commitment when they see what Norton is really all about...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Most Consciousness-Raising Content
Despite the best efforts of U.S. news operations, some of the world’s most compelling human-interest stories go unreported here. We salute HDNet’s raw, poignant probe into one such issue — the recruiting and conscripting of children by rebel...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Opening Sequence
To fete the fact that the most famous footballer on the planet, David Beckham, was changing not only his team but switching continents, ESPN crafted an opening tease appropriate for a rock star, which is how Becks is viewed overseas. With The Beatles’...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Show or Series, Family Friendly
Watching Ernest Borgnine, it’s hard to imagine he’s 91. Sure, there’s snow on top, but that booming voice remains, as does the huge gap in his kisser. All that was present when Borgnine and 12-year-old Juliette Goglia teamed on this film...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Actor/Actress/Host, Reality TV/Game Show
We love a host who not only cleans up your house, she cleans up your act, too. Nash — equal parts glamour girl, girl next door and get-it-done girl — is a tornado who sucks the clutter out of regular folks’ homes with glee. A consummate...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Actor/Actress/Host, Sports
Whether donning the hat of producer, director, or, our favorite roles — host and analyst — Davis raises the game of sports commentary to another level. In a time of lively but still largely telepromptered sideline discourse, Davis ditches the...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Actor/Actress/Host, Other
Most of us would cringe at the thought of flying a paraglider over Mount Everest, but it’s just another day at the office for Bear Grylls. The former British Special Air Serviceman, seasoned adventurer, author and downright charismatic fellow makes a...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Show or Series, Regional
Starting out in 2002 as a one-on-one interview show in front of a live audience, CenterStage has segued into a dynamic nexus of sports and entertainment, gaining energy and influence along the way. New Yorkers love to get down and dirty and in your face, and...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Show or Series, Other
A standing ovation for this out-of-the-box special. Life After People is a glorious example of History’s newfound embrace of a younger audience. Interviews with scientists and historians overlay stunning CGI graphics depicting what our planet would look...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Actor/Actress/Host, Animals/Nature
Talk about "gorilla" warfare. We’ve bestowed top honors on the indefatigable Cussons because he’s so immersed in his work rescuing abused chimpanzees that his viewing audience is, quite obviously, an afterthought. As luck would have it...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Actor/Actress/Host, News
With all due respect to the other newspeople, it’s the year of Anderson Cooper, cable news everyman. There he is on the streets of New Orleans during Hurricane Gustav, dodging an unhinged shutter while simultaneously doing a live interview with Barack...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Show, Comedy
Co-Winner: The Colbert Report, Comedy Central Who cares that the economic crisis is dragging the U.S. down, fast? It’s still a privilege to be part of Colbert Nation. At a time when the bar on political satire keeps rising, comedic genius Stephen...
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CableFAX Program Awards: Best Show or Series, Sports
The draw was footage from the tragic Mancini-Deuk-Koo Kim fight airing for the first time since the event on its 25th anniversary. But what viewers got was much more than raw film of the 1982 lightweight championship matchup that would end Kim’s life...
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