MEDIA AND BROADCASTING AWARDS 2013 - NOMINEES LIST

1. Media Entrepreneur of the Year:

– This award will go to the media entrepreneur who has demonstrated exceptional media entrepreneurship skills in 2013. Criteria includes the adoption of best practices for media businesses, the introduction of innovative business models that are ethical, creation of high value jobs, the provision of resources to support high quality media and broadcasting, investment in capacity building and training for media practitioners among others.

1. Mr. Osei Kwame Despite (Despite Group of Companies)

2. Mr. Kwesi Twum (Multimedia Group)

3. Mrs. Stella Wilson -Agyapong (Kencity Media)

4. Mr. Edward Boateng (Global Media Alliance)



2. Radio Programme of the Year – This award will be presented to the radio programme that makes the most measurable contribution to specific social causes. The winning radio programme is identified as the force behind a high-impact social change.

1. Nsem Pii (Happy FM)

2. Super Morning Show (Joy FM)

3. Kokroko (Peace FM)

4. Boiling Point (Oman FM)



3. Television Programme of the Year – This award will be presented to the television programme that makes the most measurable contribution to specific social causes. The winning television programme is identified as the force behind a high-impact social change.

1. Good Evening Ghana (Metro TV)

2. The Stand Point (GTV)

3. The Challenge (GH One)

4. News 360 (TV3)



4. New Media Practitioner of the Year – This award will be presented to an exceptional blogger or online journalist whose work made the most significant contribution to society in 2013. The winning journalist would have leveraged the internet and social media to educate, inform or entertain in a unique way.

1. Ameyaw Debrah (ameyawdebrah.com)

2. Adventuresfrom.com

3. Ato Kwamina Dadzie (atokd.com)

4. Kajsa Hallberg Adu (kajsaha.com)



5. General News Media House of the Year – The General News Media House of the Year will be the Media House with the most complete and comprehensive coverage of news from around the country. This Media House will have provided the most varied and accurate news content in the year under review.

1. Daily Graphic

2. TV3

3. Peace FM

4. Ghana Broadcasting Corporation



6. Print Media House of the Year – This award will be presented to the print media house that focused the spotlight on pertinent national issues with a view to inform, educate and cause action.

1. The Finder

2. Daily Graphic

3. Ghanaian Times

4. Daily Guide


7. Radio Broadcaster or Practitioner of the Year – This award will be presented to a Broadcaster or Practitioner who most positively used radio to influence society in 2013 whilst using radio to educate, inform and mobilize action on the nation’s most pressing issues.

1. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (Joy FM)

2. Bernard Avle (Citi FM)

3. Kwami Sefa Kayi (Peace FM)

4. Wisdom Agbodza (Nyansa Boakwa) (Happy FM)



8. Television Broadcaster or Practitioner of the Year – This award will be presented to a Broadcaster or Practitioner who most positively used television to influence society in 2013 whilst using television to educate, inform and mobilize action on the nation’s most pressing issues.

1. Odelia Ofori (TV3 News)

2. Gifty Anti (The Stand Point)

3. Paul Adom Otchere (Good Evening Ghana)

4. Randy Abbey (Good Morning Ghana)



9. Print Journalist of the Year – This award will be presented to a journalist who most positively used print media to influence society in 2013 whilst using print media to educate, inform and mobilize action on the nation’s most pressing issues.

1. William Asiedu (The Mirror Newspaper)

2. Mabel Aku Baneseh (Daily Graphic)

3. Cephas Larbi (Daily Guide)

4. Edmund Kofi Yeboah (Daily Graphic)



10. Radio Station of the Year – This award will recognise the radio station that made the most significant contribution to national development. Quality of programmes, relevance of issues reported and causes canvassed for, quality and accuracy of news, among others will form the basis of selection.

1. Joy FM

2. Citi FM

3. Oman FM

4. Peace FM



11. Television Station of the Year – This award will recognise the television station that made the most significant contribution to national development. Quality of programmes, relevance of issues reported and causes canvassed for, quality and accuracy of news, among others will form the basis of selection.

1. Viasat One

2. TV3

3. Metro TV

4. GTV



12. Media Practitioner of the Year – This award will be presented to the overall best Media Practitioner in 2013. This is MaBA’s most prestigious individual award.

Comes with a cash Prize of $500.00

1. Ransford Tetteh (Daily Graphic)

2. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah (Joy FM)

3. Kwami Sefa Kayi (Peace FM)

4. Gifty Anti (The Stand Point)



13. Media Organisation of the Year - This award will be presented to the overall best media or broadcasting organisation in 2013. This is MaBA’s most prestigious award for organisations. Comes with a cash prize of $500.00

1. Viasat One

2. Graphic Communications Group

3. TV3

4. Ghana Broadcasting Corporation



SPECIAL AWARD CATEGORIES

Environment Award – This award will go to the Media House that has done the most outstanding work on environmental issues; providing education, and pushing for action on pressing environmental issues.

1. TV3

2. Adom FM

3. GTV

4. Junior Graphic

Arts, Culture & Entertainment Award – This award will be presented to the Media House that has done the most outstanding work in the area of arts, culture and entertainment in the year under review.

1. TV3 – Ghana’s Most Beautiful

2. YFM – Area Codes

3. e.TV - Panorama

4. TV Africa – Promoting African Values



Social & Gender Award – This award will go to the Media House that has done the most work on social and gender issues.

1. Ghana Television for the Stand Point

2. Daily Graphic for its Gender Column

3. Happy FM for Mass Wedding

4. JOY FM – Bridal Show


Democracy & Governance Award – The recipient will be a Media House whose work has made the most significant contribution to deepening democracy and promoting good governance within the year.


1. Daily Graphic (Reportage on Election Petition Hearing)

2. GTV (Coverage of Election Petition Hearing)

3. Metro TV (Good Morning Ghana)

4. GTV (Talking Point)


CSR Award – This will go to the Media House with the best participation and significant impact in any community or project through its Corporate Social Responsibility programmes.


1. Joy FM (Easter Soup Kitchen)

2. e.TV Ghana (Helping Little Maame Akua Siaw)

3. Viasat One (Right to Dream)

4. Citi FM (Easter Orphan Project

TRAGEDY! HIGHLIFE LEGEND DR. PAA BOBO IS DEAD

Peacefmonline.com can confirm that Ghana’s classic highlife musician Dr. Paa Bobo has died after battling with sickness at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for some weeks now.

A close pal to the musician told Peacefmonline.com that, the highlife guru died at about 2 O’clock pm today Saturday December 28 2013 afternoon at korle-bu and his body is yet to be deposited at the morgue.

“Yes I can confirm that to you. Dr. Paa Bobo is dead. He died just this afternoon. His wife confirmed that to me now. I am going to see her and will let the general public know the details of his death”,he said.

Dr. Paa Bobo’s real name is Kwaku Agyapong Danemah. He was born on the 11th 1951 in the Eastern part of Ghana (Akyim Maase).

In 1968, Kwaku Agyapong Danemah started his music career by learning how to play rudiments of guitar from Smart Nkansah (Ghana's ace guitarist) and later formed his band in Nigeria – Aba (Former Imo state).

Standing as the only African music legend who recorded 2 hit albums in 2hours with DeccaNigeria, Dr. Paa Bobo has 40 albums to his credential and 35 great hits songs.

The multi award winning superstar and african’s legend has worked with great names like Okukuseku International Band, All Brothers Band, the Kusum Agoromma (Drama studio now known as National Theatre), Smart Nkansah. And has toured and musically explored countries like Nigeria, Ivory Coast, United Kingdom, Italy and Holland.

May his soul rest in perfect peace.