In line with the New York Festival’s World’s Best Television & Films competition that will happen on April 9 at The NAB Show in Las Vegas, ABS-CBN receives total of eight (8) nominations; four (4) from News and Current Affairs and four (4) from Entertainment shows.
In the field of News and Current Affairs ABS-CBN receives nomination for Johnny: The Juan Ponce Enrile Story for the Biography/Profiles category; Failon Ngayon: Mine Tailings for the Current Affairs category; Ang Simula for the History and Society category; and Krusada: Child-Headed Homes for the Social Issues category. Meanwhile, in the Entertainment categories the hit romantic comedy Be Careful With My Heart is nominated for the Telenovelas category and Budoy for the Drama category. ABS-CBN also bagged a nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a “Maalaala Mo Kaya” episode. The Kapamilya network’s A Call to Arms was also named finalist in the Sports Program Promotion category.
With the total of 8 nominations, ABS-CBN became the Philippine TV Network with the most number of nominations in the New York Festivals this year where as GMA 7 got 3 nominations and TV 5 with one nomination.
New York Festival’s World’s Best Television & Films competition honors programming in all lengths and forms from over 50 countries. All finalists will be awarded with a finalist certificate and entries, which will be promoted to Gold, Silver or Bronze awardees on the awarding ceremony.
