Media Prima bags four prestigious Intermedia-Globe Gold and Silver awards at the World Media Festivals 2016 in Hamburg, Germany

Desmond Cheng Wang Tat, Senior Manager, Consumer Communications Group (CCG), Media Prima Television Networks (MPTN) and Douglas Khoo Hong Seng, Creative Director, Creative Services Department (CSD) accepting the Intermedia-Globe Gold and Silver awards at the World Media Festival in Hamburg, Germany last night.

Bangsar, 12 MAY 2016 – Media Prima Berhad (“Media Prima” or “the Group”), Malaysia’s largest integrated media group has won two intermedia-globe Gold awards and two Silver awards at the prestigious World Media Festival held in Hamburg, Germany yesterday.

The two intermedia-globe Gold awards were awarded for NTV7’s Feel Good documentaries and another for web events and live streaming of the Piala Malaysia finals. Meanwhile, the two intermedia-globe Silver awards were for Kita Juara trailer and also for Bella Awards promo trailers.

The World Media Festival is an international competition for communication and media practitioners and is one of the most prestigious events within the industry. Organised by intermedia, it honours and celebrates excellent solutions in film, television, print, web and web TV productions on an international level. It is also an important forum for leading communications professionals from around the world and is also the only forum of its kind in Europe. This year, the competition attracted entries from over 280 TV stations, media companies and agencies in more than 40 countries from around the world.

“We are truly humbled, honoured, and at the same time very excited to be within the rank of such fine organisations to receive the coveted intermedia-globe Gold and Silver awards. The awards are certainly testament to the hard work and dedication of everyone at Media Prima who dared to continuously push the limits of their creativity,” said Datuk Kamal Khalid, Chief Executive Officer of Media Prima Television Networks (MPTN).

Datuk Kamal paid particular tribute to Consumer Communications Group and Creative Services Department of Media Prima Television Networks. All the hard work and determination from both these departments has instilled positive vibes to further enhance in creating products with high quality and creativity. All four awards were received by Desmond Cheng, Senior Manager of Consumer Communications Group together with Douglas Khoo, the Creative Director of Creative Service Department at the World Media Festival in Hamburg last night.

The World Media Festival is different to most since work is judged not just on its creative and technical excellence, but also, and especially, on how well it speaks to its target audience. In terms of judging, experienced professionals from around the world who are experts in the fields of communications, film production, as well as other subject matter, serve in a volunteer capacity as judges and evaluate  all entries prior to the festival event.

All entries are also not judged on budget. Entries from large or small organisations have an equal chance of winning. Among the criteria used for audio visual entries include artistic creativity, technical quality, picture and sound design, clarity, believability, overall impact. For web, factors including content, information, navigation, functionality, design, creativity, believability and overall impact are emphasised. Print entries meanwhile are judged based on content, information, design, creativity, believability and overall impact. All recommendations by the jury groups are reviewed by an executive committee.

“On behalf of all of us at Media Prima, I would like to express our sincerest appreciation to the jury of judges for choosing our work. It is certainly a huge honour to win this award, especially with the calibre of competition we have had this year. The awards also show just how much progress we can achieve when we work together with effectiveness and persistence and these will certainly motivate us to aim higher to bring good, wholesome content to our audiences,” added Dato’ Sri Amrin Awaluddin, Group Managing Director of Media Prima Berhad.

As a winner of an intermedia-globe Gold award, Media Prima’s winning entry automatically qualifies as a nominee for an intermedia-globe Grand Award (best in each of the 14 main Festival categories). From here, the Special Jury for Excellence may then select the winner of the intermedia-globe Grand Prix for best of all the Festival entries. The Special Award winners are also selected by the relevant special juries. Winners of the Grand Awards and the Grand Prix, along with the winners of the Special Awards, will only be announced in the evening at the Gala for the Award Presentation Ceremony, held last night in Hamburg, Germany’s media metropolis.

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Media Prima Berhad at: 603- 1300 300 672 Ext: 8949 or 03 – 2724 8949
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About Media Prima

Media Prima Berhad (“Media Prima” or “The Group”) is the leading fully-integrated media company in Malaysia.

With a complete repertoire of media-related businesses including in Television, Print, Radio, Out-of-Home, as well as Content and Digital Media, Media Prima, which is listed on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia, is also one of Malaysia’s Top 100 largest listed companies by revenue.

In addition to having equity interests in Malaysia’s leading free-to-air television stations namely TV3, 8TV, ntv7 and TV9, the Group also owns more than 98 percent of The New Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad (NSTP), Malaysia’s largest publisher with three national newspapers; New Straits Times, BH and Harian Metro.

Through its digital media subsidiary, Media Prima Digital embraces technical innovation, digital solutions and creative strategies. It offers a holistic digital consultancy which encompasses creative solutions, diversified platform services, e-commerce expertise and is also involved in the development and incubation of mobile applications and games.

tonton is Malaysia’s #1 video streaming portal offering FREE, advertising supported content (AVOD) with over 5.6 million registered users and a growth of 22,000 registrants on a weekly basis. Its vision is to be the #1 SVOD and home of best content for Malaysians whereas its mission is to be the no. 1 online video site, a must have service for every Malaysian and Malaysian home, to be available everywhere and to prevent piracy.

In Radio, the Group is represented by four very popular radio stations namely Fly FM, Hot FM, one FM and Kool FM. Media Prima is also a market leader in Out-of-Home Advertising, represented by Big Tree Outdoor Sdn. Bhd., The Right Channel Sdn. Bhd., Kurnia Outdoor Sdn. Bhd., Gotcha and UPD Sdn. Bhd.

The Group also owns a content creation subsidiary, Primeworks Studios Sdn Bhd. It is today Malaysia’s largest production company, producing TV content and feature films since 1984 and 1994 respectively.