The interactive voting was taking place on the Awards official website- www.bigdigit.ru . The Jury members headed by Anatoly Lysenko, the president of the International TV and Radio Academy, the CEO of the Russia’s Public Television, used their individual logins and passwords to assess for various nominations using the 10 score system.
The “Operator-company” category had the following winners in the nominations given below:
In the new nomination called “Subscriber Support and customer service (operators with a subscriber base from 10 000 to 100 000 subscribers)” the winner was “Intersvyaz” company that operates in the Urals region.
The “Equipment and Technology” category had the winners in the following nominations:
Conditional access systems and DRM – DiTel
Platforms for OTT-broadcasting – SPB TV
The “TV Channels” category had the winners in the following nominations:
Information and business TV channel – Moscow 24
Documentary and educational TV channel – Discovery Channel
Documentary and educational TV channel – History
Travel TV channel –Travel Channel
TV channel about cooking – TeleCafe
TV channel about animals – Animal Planet
Entertainment TV channel – DIVA Universal
Sports TV channel – Nash Football
Music TV channel – Mezzo Live HD
Music TV channel – A-One Hip-Hop Music Channel
Movie TV channel – Premiere
Soap opera TV channel – AMEDIA Premium HD
TV channel for children –TiJi
Hobby TV channel – Hunting and Fishing (Ohota I Rybalka)
Lifestyle TV channel – Mother and Child
Traditionally, the Awards have been strongly focused not only on the Jury’s voting but also on the audience’s voting. The favourite TV channels got over 50 000 votes this year.
The audience voting lasted from the 1st to the 15th of December and, according to the number of votes, the winners got the special Audience Preference Award.
Audience voting results:
Information and business TV channel – LIFENEWS
Documentary and educational TV channel - Discovery Channel
Travel TV channel – Teletravel HD
TV channel about cooking – TELECAFE
TV channel about animals – Animal Planet
Entertainment TV channel – Paramount Comedy
Sports TV channel – Боец
Music TV channel – 9 the wave (9 volna)
Movie TV channel – Dom Kino
Soap opera TV channel – Paramount Comedy
TV channel for children – Nickelodeon
Hobby TV channel – AVTO Plus
Lifestyle TV channel – TLC
The most active voters (given below) got presents from the organizers and our voting partner -“Orion Express” company:
Andrei Volchenko from Karasuk
Nicolay Lyubimov from Tambov
Alexander Legkotdimov from Moscow
The following companies got special Awards:
The number of digital TV subscribers in 2013 in Russia exceeded the audience of the analog TV. The Organizing Committee of the “Bolshaya Tsifra” made a decision to award the regional telecom operators “For the Contribution to the Digital TV Development” . The awards were given to «Transinform» (Sverdlovsk Oblast), CENTRA (Novokuznetsk), «Akado Yekaterinburg», «Dantser» (KhantyMansiysk Autonomous District), «Tele Service» (Odintsovo district) «Lada Media» (Tolyatti), «Telemit» (Lipetsk Oblast), «Kristall» (Bashkortostan Republic) and «Intersvyaz» (Chelyabinsk).
Special Award “For the development of innovative interactive TV services in Russia” by the Russian Association of Cable Television was given to the IT Department of the city of Moscow.
Special Award “For the development of overseas high-tech projects” by the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry was given to GS Group.
Special Award “For the state-of-the-art technologies inTV&radio broadcasting” by Eutelsat was given to “RBCTV” channel.
Special Award “For the best marketing campaign” by Beeline was given to NBC Universal.
Special Award “For the unique approach to the programs on the national and world history” by “Tricolor TV” was given to “History” channel.
Special Award “For the development of satellite broadcasting” by the Russian Satellite Communications company was given to «Kino TV» channel.
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Over the 5 years of its existence, the national award in multichannel digital television became a landmark in television and telecom industries. The winners this year were awarded in three categories: “Operator-Company”, “Equipment and Technology” and “TV Channels”. The total number of the applicants for 2014 nominations is 103.
For details on nominations, nominees and winners, please visit our official website www.bigdigit.ru