Avon Lake Community Television Brings Home Philo T. Farnsworth Video Competition Award
01/31/2024 – The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, as part of the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards, recognized the City’s efforts with the Philo T. Farnsworth “2023 Excellence in Editing” award for Lucas Hricko’s video “Our Avon Lake.” The City received top regional honors out of the more than 160 entries submitted from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky. “Our Avon Lake” was also named the professional winner in the “Promotional Video (3:01 or More)” category.
Lucas Hricko, Production Assistant, has received awards in previous years, including awards for "The Jackie-O Show: Ohio Village Muffins vs. Avon Lake" and "The Haunted Trails at Weiss Park.”
For this year’s award, Mr. Hricko states, “I would like to thank all of my coworkers at the Avon Lake Communications & Technology Department for their contributions to the “Our Avon Lake” video. This project was a team effort to present the best features of the city, and we are very honored to win in two categories.”
"To have our peers, people who do what we do, recognize our video for the skills necessary to produce “Our Avon Lake” is quite an honor," Barb Cagley, Director of Communications & Technology Department said. “If you have not had a chance to see the video, visit the City’s website. There you can also find other videos that our Department is really proud of.”
Each year, the Alliance For Community Media Central States Region (ACM-CS), which represents more than 3,000 public, educational, and governmental access organizations and community media centers in the country, salutes the best community programming with a regional video contest, the “Philo Festival Of Media Arts Video Competition.” Named after Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the first receiving tube for television transmissions, the “Philo” is awarded as recognition of excellence in media creation that works to further develop the use of this technology and promote the use of media in our communities.
Avon Lake Community Television is a Department of the City of Avon Lake and is comprised of two channels: government access and public access. ALC-TV Government Access Channel provides a means of communicating government activities, issues, legislation, events, and meetings. Through taped and live productions and a computerized bulletin board, the staffed station works to keep the citizens of Avon Lake aware, informed, and active in local, regional, and national levels of government. ALC-TV Public Access Channel provides an “open forum” television format for all citizens, groups, organizations, clubs and enterprises of Avon Lake to produce non-commercial, informational programming. ALC-TV staff provides training to city residents and business owners in the handling and operation of cameras and editing equipment. The Public Channel airs programs produced by residents, businesses or groups of Avon Lake. ALC-TV is a division of the City of Avon Lake’s Communications & Technology Department. These and other shows are available for viewing at www.Avonlake.org/Communications-Technology/Videos, which can be accessed from the home page of the City’s website.
ALC-TV is located in the lower level of the Avon Lake Public Library, 32649 Electric Boulevard. Office hours are Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Stop by and see us! We always welcome new public producers.
