Studio 23 tops USTv Awards
Inquirer
Last updated 08:12pm (Mla time) 02/22/2007
ABS-CBN PROGRAMS RECEIVED the lion’s share of awards but it was the network’s subsidiary, Studio 23, that was named Most Youth-Responsible Station of the Year in the Third USTv Students Choice Awards.
The awards are given by the 35,000-strong student body of the University of Santo Tomas. This year’s awarding rites were held last Tuesday at the UST Medicine Auditorium.
Studio 23 won for Best Educational Program (“Sineskuwela”), Public Affairs Program (“Y-Speak”), and Magazine Program (“F”).
ABS-CBN won for Best News Program (“TV Patrol-World”), Public Affairs Program (“The Correspondents”), Sitcom (the defunct “OK Fine, Ito ang Gusto N’yo”), Reality TV (“Pinoy Dream Academy), Drama Anthology (“Maalaala Mo Kaya”), Drama Mini-Series (“Maging Sino Ka Man”), Actors in a Mini-Series (John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo, “Maging Sino Ka Man”), Full-Length Animated Program (“Naruto”), and Variety Show (“ASAP ’06”).
GMA 7 won for News and Public Affairs Host (Arnold Clavio), and Foreign Soap Opera (“Jewel in the Palace”).
ABC 5 had two winners—“Family Rosary Crusade,” Best Catholic Program; and “Philippine Idol,” which shared the Reality TV Program Award with “Pinoy Dream Academy.”
Speculum Veritatis
Broadcast personality Ali Sotto received the Speculum Veritatis Award “for mirroring in her life and professional practice the Thomasian virtue of truth in charity”
Sotto said she was able to cope with the loss of her son—Miko Sotto, who died in 2003—because of her Thomasian training.
She dedicated the award to her teachers, including her mother who had taught at the UST College of Education. “What I am now I owe it to them,” she said.
Fr. Ernesto A rceo, O.P., new rector magnificus, led UST officials and student leaders in handing out the awards.
The penultimate award for Best Television Station used to be given to the station that won the most awards. It was recast this year to Most Youth-Responsible Television Station—for the network that that “reflects in its programming a pro-family orientation and a bias to make TV a tool for the moral and integral formation of young Filipinos.”
John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo won Best Actor and Actress in a Drama Mini-Series for ABS-CBN’s “Maging Sino Ka Man,” which also won Best Drama Mini-Series.
ABS-CBN’s “Maalaala Mo Kaya” won Best Drama Anthology for the third straight year. Accepting the award, Charo Santos, producer and host, disclosed that she had cross-enrolled for Chemistry at UST and learned first-hand the values cultivated by the institution where her own parents and siblings had been educated.
Another third-time winner was the defunct show “F,” which won Best Magazine Show.
Daphne Oseña and Amanda Griffin, two of the three former program hosts (the third was Angel Aquino), accepted the award.
“We’re very touched that [you] remember the show and recognize its quality and the effort we put into it,” said Oseña. “Thank you, UST.”
Clavio received his second USTv award as Best News and Public Affairs host (he also won in 2005). “I will never fail you,” Clavio, a UST Journalism alumnus, told the audience. “You will always be my inspiration.”
Refined criteria
Fr. Isidro Abano, OP, UST secretary-general, said that on their third year, the USTv awards had “refined” the criteria to better emphasize “significant content” and “Christian dimensions.”
Perhaps because of the strict criteria, no winner was named for Best Entertainment News Program.
“The USTv Students Choice Award has no place for gossip shows,” the criterion for the category read. “An entertainment news program that focuses excessively on show biz celebrities and their misdeeds and mispronouncements, or one that panders to the cheap tricks and crass publicity stunts of the entertainment world, is pornographic.”
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