Ontario, June 21, 2018 – YourTV ‘Star Awards’ Celebrates the Best in Ontario!
The best in ‘Truly Local’ television was celebrated at the 15th Annual Star Awards held on June 20, 2018 in Peterborough Ontario. The event was carried live across the province.
Peterborough’s Kruz FM ‘Fresh Mornings’ team and stars of YourTV Peterborough, Pete Dalliday and Catherine Hanrahan, were the hosts of this show that honours the achievements of YourTV’s talented teams who produce local television across the province. The programs created by the YourTV staff, in partnership with local volunteers, showcase what matters to each of the local communities Cogeco serves.
Available only on Cogeco, the 15th Annual Star Awards Show will be repeated on YourTV channel 700 and is available on VOD starting Friday, June 22, 2018.
And the winners are:
Community Impact
The Many Hands Project – Niagara, Producer: Jack Custers
Documentary
1305 Behind the Robots – North Bay, Producer: Christopher Robinson
Entertainment
Great North Wrestling – Ottawa Valley, Producer: Tianna Tierney
Lifestyle
Return to the Table - Burlington, Producer: James Spalding
Sports Event
OJHL Tonight – Burlington, Producer: Brad Scott
Sports Program
CHL Today – Windsor, Producer: Robert Scussolin
News / Feature Reporting
The Avro Lancaster Bomber – Burlington, Producer: Shane Lansing
Sports Feature Reporting
Learn to Sledge – Niagara, Producer: Mark Wikobrado
Non-Sport Live Coverage
Remembrance Day – Burlington, Producer: Joey Ricottone
Social Media Impact
Good Deeds Cup – Smiths Falls, Producer: Steve Savage
Person of Excellence
Technician New Media: Shaq Alam
Special Category
This Old Vehicle – Kingston, Producer: Steve Heron
ABOUT YOUR TV/NOUSTV
Your TV/NousTV is a division of Cogeco Connexion, a property of the Cogeco Communications inc. (TSX: CCA), a communication corporation that operates 36 community television stations in Québec and Ontario. Available exclusively to Cogeco Connexion customers, Your TV offers a wide and varied range of programs developed, produced and put on the air by a team of employees and volunteers in collaboration with different local organizations. Your TV programming reflects the concerns and interests of the communities it serves.
ABOUT COGECO CONNEXION
Cogeco Connexion regroups the Canadian cable operations of Cogeco Communications Inc. Cogeco Connexion is the second largest cable operator in Ontario and Québec in terms of the number of basic cable service customers served. It provides its residential and small business customers with video, Internet and telephony services through its two-way broadband cable networks. Cogeco Communications Inc. is a communications corporation and is the 8th largest hybrid fibre coaxial cable operator in North America operating in Canada under the Cogeco Connexion brand name in Québec and Ontario, and in the United States through its subsidiary Atlantic Broadband in western Pennsylvania, south Florida, Maryland/Delaware, South Carolina and eastern Connecticut. Through Cogeco Peer 1, Cogeco Communications Inc. provides its business customers with a suite of information technology services (colocation, network connectivity, hosting, cloud and managed services), through its 16 data centres, extensive FastFiber Network® and more than 50 points of presence in North America and Europe. Cogeco Communications Inc.’s subordinate voting shares are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: CCA).