Announcing our awards for 2011:

WAVE Awards

Presented by the Alliance for Community Media, the Western Access Video Excellence Awards give media producers in the Alliance for Community Media, Western Region's six states, the opportunity to showcase their best work.

The WAVE Award was presented to Outlook Video in each of the categories of:

• Community Event for our coverage of 2011 pride events
  
• Magazine Format with topics: Reach & Teach, AIDS 30 Years, Suicide Prevention, Prop 8 Vacate Request, GLAAD Media Awards
• Special Audience Programming for coverage of World AIDS Day topics

Hometown Video Awards

Presented by the Alliance for Community Media, the Hometown Video Awards honor and promote community media, and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) access cable television channels. Awards are presented to creative programs that address community needs, develop diverse community involvement, challenge conventional commercial television formats and move viewers to experiences television in a different way.

The Hometown Video Award was presented to Outlook Video in each of the categories of:

• LGBT Programming for our coverage of World AIDS Day topics
  
• News Programming for our coverage of LGBT teen suicides highlighting the recent string of suicides by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth in September 2010 and continuing coverage of marriage equality for same-sex couples.

BACE = Bay Area Cable Excellence

WAVE = Western Access Video Excellence, Alliance for Community Media - Western Region

Hometown = Hometown Video Awards, Alliance for Community Media - National