The MONTE-CARLO TV FESTIVAL and EURODATA TV WORLDWIDE
announce the NOMINEES of the
INTERNATIONAL TV AUDIENCE AWARDS
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MONTE CARLO, April 10, 2007
The 47th Monte-Carlo TV Festival and Eurodata TV Worldwide have joined forces to permit international viewers to reward programs who delivered the highest ratings worldwide.
These 2nd International TV Audience Awards will be designated by viewers: through the sum of the TV ratings across 5 continents. It will reward the programme delivering the highest ratings worldwide in 2006 in three categories: “Drama TV Series“, “Comedy TV Series”, and "Telenovelas" / "Soap Operas".
Nominees were revealed today, during the Monte Carlo TV Festival Press Conference in Paris.
Programs in competition for the title of the most-watched television show are:
“Drama TV series” : CSI : Las Vegas (USA)
CSI : Miami (USA)
Lost (USA)
“Comedy TV Series” :
Desperate Housewives (USA)
Monk (USA)
Mr Bean (UK)
“Telenovelas” / “Soap Operas”:
El Cuerpo del Deseo (Colombia)
Pasión de Gavilanes (Colombia)
The Bold and The Beautiful (USA)
The nominees are pre-selected among the ten best performing imported fiction programmes in 47 countries, i.e. 2.4 billion potential viewers.
The winners will be announced during the 47th Monte-Carlo Television Festival Awards Ceremony, Thursday 14th June 2007 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
Scope of Survey : Australia (Regional TAM), Austria, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa , South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela.
About Eurodata TV Worldwide
Created by Médiamétrie, Eurodata TV Worldwide distributes programming and audience ratings information, based on its partnership with the national institutes operating people meter systems throughout the world. Today, Eurodata TV Worldwide offers daily information including content, production, international distribution and audience levels on over than 2000 channels in 87 territories. All data emanates directly from the relevant authorized institutes based in each country around the world. In 2006, 90% of Eurodata TV Worldwide’s turnover came from abroad.
Médiamétrie is the French inter-professional company which measures the audiences of both audio-visual and interactive mediums. It’s aim is to ensure audience and performance measurement for the audio-visual and interactive medias and in addition to attain the high level of quality to be the unique professional reference for all the market players with the general consensus. Médiamétrie was created in 1985, and has developed it’s Television, Radio, Cinema, Internet and New Media activities in France and abroad.
Contacts :
Laure Osmanian - Médiamétrie
Tel : + 33 1 47 58 97 55 / + 33 6 26 34 43 33
Fax : + 33 1 47 58 09 26
losmanian@mediametrie.fr / www.mediametrie.fr
Geneviève Revel - Monte-Carlo Television Festival
Tel : + 377 93 10 40 60 – Fax : + 377 93 50 70 14
g.revel@tvfestival.com |
