Award Competitions:
WAVE - Western Access Video Excellence, Alliance for Community Media - Western Region - Presented by the Alliance for Community Media, the Western Access Video Excellence Awards give media producers in the Alliance for Community Media, Western Region's six states, the opportunity to showcase their best work.
Hometown - Hometown Media Awards, Alliance for Community Media - National - Presented by the Alliance for Community Media, the Hometown Media Awards (previously called the Hometown Video Awards) honor and promote community media, and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels. Awards are presented to creative programs that address community needs, develop diverse community involvement, challenge conventional commercial television formats and move viewers to experiences television in a different way.
CreaTV - CreaTV San Jose is a community media center that manages San Jose's public and education channels on Comcast Cable and online. CreaTV San Jose inspires, educates and connects San Jose communities, using media to foster civic engagement. The CreaTiVe Awards are held annually to honor community media makers throughout the Bay Area who promote and celebrate individual expression, learning, diversity, arts and civic engagement. Finalists are selected from entries submitted in nine categories, including Citizen Journalist, Non-Profit, Student, Educator, Business, Bay Area Community Access TV Series, CreaTV San Jose TV Series and Filmmaker.
SF Commons - SF Commons is San Francisco Community Access television and has been housed at Bay Area Video Coalition since 2009. It provides to city residents, who want to produce a community access TV show, the neccessary resources such as access to video equipment, a television studio, low-cost training, and a time-slot on the local access channel. Local producers create media that matters to them and their communities, covering a wide range of issues, topics and interests. SF Commons recognizes producers who have volunteered their time and talents with awards presented at a year-in-review celebration of their work.
BACE = Bay Area Cable Excellence - This award competition, presented yearly in Newark, CA, was limited to access programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was terminated as of 1999.
Our List of Awards
Competition | Year | Category | Award | Show # |
WAVE | 2019 | Magazine Show - Community Producer | Winner | 361 |
WAVE | 2015 | Special Audience Programming - Community Producer | Winner | 323 |
SF Commons | 2015 | Community Content | Winner | 323 |
WAVE | 2012 | Talk Show Issues | Winner | 282 World AIDS Day Edition |
WAVE | 2012 | Magazine Format | Winner | 284 |
Hometown | 2012 | Magazine Shows | Winner | 276 |
CreaTV | 2011 | Citizen Journalist | Winner | 269 |
CreaTV | 2011 | CreaTiVe Excellence-Producer | Finalist | 278 |
WAVE | 2011 | Community Event | Winner | 278 |
WAVE | 2011 | Magazine Format | Finalist | 277 |
WAVE | 2011 | Special Audience Programming | Finalist | 270 |
Hometown | 2011 | GLBT Programming | Winner | 270 |
Hometown | 2011 | News - Non-Professional | Winner | 269 |
CreaTV | 2010 | Citizen Journalist: | Finalist | LGBT Teen Suicide segment |
CreaTV | 2010 | CreaTV San Jose TV Series | Finalist | 266 |
WAVE | 2010 | Magazine Format | Finalist | 266 |
WAVE | 2009 | Community Event | Finalist | 254 |
WAVE | 2009 | Magazine Format | Finalist | 250 |
WAVE | 2009 | Magazine Format | Finalist | 249 |
Hometown | 2009 | Gay/Lesbian - Non-Professional | Winner | 245 |
WAVE | 2008 | Community Event | Winner | 242 |
WAVE | 2008 | Community News | Winner | 242 |
Hometown | 2008 | News - Non-Professional | Winner | 227 |
Hometown | 2008 | Gay/Lesbian - Non-Professional | Winner | 230 |
WAVE | 2007 | Community Event | Winner | 191 |
WAVE | 2007 | Magazine Format | Finalist | 230 |
WAVE | 2006 | Magazine Format | Winner | 218 |
Hometown | 2005 | Gay and Lesbian Talk Show | Winner | |
Hometown | 2002 | Gay and Lesbian Talk Show | Winner | 158 |
WAVE | 2000 | Community Event | Finalist | 135 |
WAVE | 2000 | Special Audience Programming | Finalist | 143 |
Hometown | 1998 | Gay and Lesbian Talk Show | Finalist | |
WAVE | 1998 | Community Issues | Winner | 115 |
WAVE | 1998 | Special Audience Programming | Finalist | 114 |
BACE | 1998 | Talk Show Series | Winner | 114 |
WAVE | 1998 | Community Event | Finalist | 123 |
WAVE | 1996 | Talk Show | Finalist | 86 |
BACE | 1997 | Issue Coverage | Winner | 102 |
BACE | 1997 | Talk Show Series | Finalist | 101 |
BACE | 1996 | Talk Show Series | Winner | 86 |
BACE | 1995 | Talk Show Series | Winner | |
BACE | 1994 | Talk Show Series | Finalist |