MEDIA CENTER TAKES A RECORD 19 NOMINATIONS AT WAVE AWARDS

The Midpeninsula Media Center (the “Media Center”) proudly announces that nineteen (19) locally produced programs have been nominated as finalists by the Western Alliance Video Excellence (WAVE) awards. Since its inception in 1988, the WAVE awards have recognized and promoted the best in local community programming.

Winners will be announced at the WAVE Awards Ceremony and Reception at the annual ACM Western Region Conference to be held Friday, October 26, 2007 in Ventura, California. The western region includes Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada and New Mexico.

3^rd Eye, produced at the Media Center by Jesse Norfleet and Richard Tatum, took top honors last year, and is up again in the Community Event Category. Three programs were double-nominees this year: Neal’s Place produced by Kenny Neal, Dianne De Laet’s Art 2 Art and a youth produced PSA: The Happy Hybrid and the Polluting Pick-Up. The Sport of Motherhood produced by Genevieve Hutcheson Butcher was a triple nominee. The Media Center is particularly proud that grade-school brother and sister Austin and Arianna Tamaddon received 3 nominations between them in the Programs by Youth and PSA categories. The complete list of nominees is as follows:

Professional Categories; Producers

· 3^rd Eye (Community Issues); Jesse Norfleet, Richard Tatum

· Neal’s Place (Entertainment, Talk Show-Entertainment); Kenny Neal

· MC Presents: A Holiday Extravaganza (Entertainment); Jesse Norfleet

Non-Professional Categories; Producers

· Cindy Sheehan & Amy Goodman–Together! (Community Event); Paul George, Julia Bernd

· What’s Going On? How to Get Out the Game (Talk Show–Issues); Marina Latu, Douglas Fort, Karen Adams

· Inside Iran: Understanding the Internal Dynamics of the U.S.’s Next Target (Talk Show–Issues); Paul George

· The Sport of Motherhood (Talk Show–Entertainment, Special Audience, Programs for Youth); Genevieve Hutcheson Butcher, Carl Yorke

· Spotlight on the Middle East (Documentary Event); Phil Smaller, Marty Wasserman

· Soil: Sowing Seeds of Change in Rural Haiti (Documentary Profile); Jennifer Benorden, Zara Zimbardo

· Mr. Gopher (Programs by Youth); Arianna Tamaddon

· The Happy Hybrid and the Polluting Pick-Up (Programs by Youth, Public Service Announcements); Austin Tamaddon

· Citizen Media: Where’s It Heading? (Public Forum); Elliot Margolies, Karen Adams

· Plastic or Cars? (PSA); Wes Rapaport

· Art 2 Art (Instructional Programs); Dianne De Laet

The Media Center operates local channels 26, 27, 28, 29 & 30, and provides public access to cable TV for residents in Atherton, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Stanford. Production training is offered along with accessible studio facilities, camcorders, and editing suites. For more information on programming and professional production services contact the Media Center at (650) 494-8686, or visit our web site at www.midpenmedia.org.