brandstage.tv Wins Silver Award at the World Media Festival 2009

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) is proud to announce that brandstage.tv has won a Silver Award for the feature “IDM 2008 – A dip in the pool for body and soul in Berlin“ in the category Charitable/Non-Profit at the annual World Media Festival in Hamburg. 12 May 2009 By IPC

Said Andreas F. Schneider, managing partner of brandstage.tv, “I am very proud of this award and would like to thank the jury of the World Media Festival for conferring Silver on our work. It was very important for us to stay as close as possible to the athletes, portraying their achievements and giving their sport a face.”

The Award honours the work of brandstage.tv, IPC’s co-founding partner of ParalympicSport.TV (PSTV). All entries were judged by international, independent expert jury groups in Europe and overseas based on all standards of excellence. The feature focuses on Paralympic athletes, who motivate and inspire large audiences beyond their sporting achievement. An important aspect of the feature is the element of water, which offers the human body a broad range of possibilities.

Said Andreas F. Schneider, managing partner of brandstage.tv, “I am very proud of this award and would like to thank the jury of the World Media Festival for conferring Silver on our work. It was very important for us to stay as close as possible to the athletes, portraying their achievements and giving their sport a face.”

ParalympicSport.TV, the IPC’s Internet TV channel, is managed by brandstage.tv GmbH, co-founding partner of ParalympicSport.TV together with the IPC and Narrowstep Ltd. It offers live streaming, scheduled programming and videos on demand in English language to a world wide audience of Paralympic athletes, supporters and fans of Paralympic Sport. ParalympicSport.TV broadcasted major events live such as the Torino 2006 Winter Paralympic Games and the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games.

brandstage.tv GmbH is a full service internet television agency based in Hamburg, Germany. brandstage.tv provides the production and editorial work for the channel. Narrowstep Ltd. provides the broadcast platform and technology for the coverage on ParalympicSport.TV. As the world’s leading technical solution provider in the Internet TV space, Narrowstep was founded in 2002 in Great Britain. The channel is supported by Samsung, Worldwide Partner of the IPC.

For more information, please contact Maria Surzukova from brandstage at msu@brandstage.tv or Eva Werthmann, IPC Broadcasting & New Media Co-ordinator at eva.werthmann@paralympic.org.