2009 Captioning Awards winners
The 2009 Captioning Awards took place on Thursday 27 August 2009 at Four Seasons Hotel Sydney. The winners are:
The 2009 Roma Wood OAM Community Award Presented to Kate Locke, a long time advocate for captioning in committees, events and organisations, online and television captioning for people who are Deaf or have a hearing impairment. Photo
The 2009 Members Choice Award The winner is Seven Network for their consistent and good quality captioning of news and current affairs.Photo
The 2009 Award for DVD Captioning The winner is The Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. FaHCSIA is a long time supporter of captions through a program funding the captioning of educational and community DVDs. Photo
The 2009 Award for Advertising Captioning The winner is Select Foxtel for promoting the captioned 40th Anniversary Moon Landing to all subscribers. Photo
The 2009 Award for Best Event (Non-TV) Captioning The winner is Perth International Arts Festival for providing access to their 2009 Festival through the use of remote theatre captioning. Photo
The 2009 Award for Best Promotion of Captioning or Best Consumer Education Campaign, in memory of Ron Miller HIGHLY COMMENDED Foxtel Backstage Access, for providing educational “hands on” lessons in closed captioning for Deaf and hearing impaired students. Photo
The winner is CMAX Cinemas Palmerston for the promotion of accessible cinema initiative in the
The 2009 Award for SubscriptionTV Captioning The winner is National Geographic Channel for continuing to increase the availability of quality captioned documentaries for educational use and the wider community. Photo
The 2009 Award for Free to Air TV Captioning HIGHLY COMMENDED SBS Television for the captioning of World Youth Day 2008 and the very popular Tour de France 2008. Photo
The winner is Network Ten for captioning commitment, including excellent coverage of the very popular Master Chef series Final. Photo
2009 Award for Most Consistent Use of Captioning The winner is ABC Enterprises for consistent captioning of all non children’s DVD’s showing that it is possible to achieve 100% access for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired community. Photo
2009 Award for the Best New Captioning Initiative The winner is Independent Cinemas Association of Australia for the roll out of the accessible cinema programme to independent cinemas around Australia, incorporating captioning and audio description. Photo
Media release with background information.
