Call for nominations for international categories at the Ondas Awards 2013

The awards are among the most prestigious in the Spanish and international audiovisual sector and this year celebrate their 60th Anniversary

The Ondas Awards, the oldest and most prestigious radio and TV broadcasting awards, which are held in Barcelona (Spain), each year honor the most outstanding national and international radio and television professionals, businesses, and advertising projects. The national and international juries, made up of leading professionals from these sectors, are responsible for choosing the winners each year.

This year sees the prestigious Ondas Awards celebrate their 60th Anniversary and they are widely seen as a vital showcase for audiovisual talent from both Spain and internationally. For another year running, leading figures from the worlds of media and advertising will come together regardless of ideology or country of origin.

The history of the Ondas Awards has seen winners from winners from Europe, Asia and the Americas. They include Mike Bogiorno RAI (1957 / Italy), Jacqueline Caurat ORTF Paris (1959/France), Teresa Keller TV-Bern (1960/Switzerland), Miville Couture Radio Canada-Montreal (1961/Canada), Alberto Domper Radio El Mundo-Buenos Aires (1961/Argentina), Ayame Manichi Osaka System (1962/Japan),Cho Kab Dong The Voice of Korea (1963/Korea), Spanish classes WFBM Radio-TV-Indianapolis (1963/USA), Telejornal Excelsior TV-Rio de Janeiro (1964/Brazil) Your antipodes NZBC (1965/New Zealand), Walter Cronkite CBS-New York (1966/USA), Germán Pinelli TV Cubana (1667/Cuba), Jack Dowling Radio Telefis Eireann (1968/Ireland), Dolly Mina's KRO-Hilversum (1971/Netherlands), Tierra Colombiana with Eucario Bermudez Cadena Caracol (1972/Colombia), Dante: Inferno Magyar TV (1975/Hungary), Die gespaltene nation WDR (1976/Germany) Charlie Chaplin as a musician Radio Belgrade (1978/Yugoslavia), Six compositions for music and TV. Polish RTV (1981/Poland) Venevision News Services (1982/Venezuela), ABC News Closeup: Vietnam Requiem (1984/USA), Spring of discontent TVB (1989/Hong Kong), A look back at the nineties BBC (1993 / UK), 12 + Plias BRN (1995/Bulgaria), Zvizduca prica HRT (1997/Croatia) Special La douleur muette Entreprise Nationale de Televisión Algerienne (2000/Algeria), Heritage For Sale Sveriges Television (2001/Sweden) Berthelsen Radio Danmark (2003/Denmark), ADN Radio Chile (2010/Chile), Radio Programas del Peru (2011/Peru), El encanto del Águila - Televisa (2012/Mexico), and Iñaki Gabilondo Cadena SER (2012/Spain) .

In the last edition nominations were received from 17 countries (Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Denmark, Spain, France, Hungary, UK, Iran, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Switzerland and Yugoslavia). The Ondas Awards, awarded by Radio Barcelona Cadena SER, have also had the official support of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since the 1980s.

The Ondas have also played a crucial role in educating the public of what goes into making radio, TV and advertising. Hundreds of experts sitting on the awards juries have, for 60 years, paid tribute to the talent and creativity of the many professionals who have worked to advance these sectors.

Cadena SER, belonging to PRISA Radio’s network of stations, is Spain’s leading radio broadcaster with 4,785.000  listeners and more than 1.5 million unique users on the Internet, according to comScore. Cadena SER broadcasts audience-share leading programs across all time slots, including Hoy por Hoy, Hora 14, La Ventana, Hora 25, El Larguero and Carrusel Deportiva. Its news services, sports programming and journalistic team guarantee the highest quality content.

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