BANFF TV FEST: BBC and Finland win major cash prizes

BANFF – The BBC took home 50-grand at the 26th Banff Rockie Awards last night. It was a record-shattering night, actually, for the British Broadcasting Corporation at the 26th Banff Rockie Awards. Its programs won the $50,000 Global Television Grand Prize and half-a-dozen category awards at the international program competition. The BBC's Blackpool was named best-of-festival by a blue-ribbon international jury led by Banff's founding chairman, Fil Fraser. "Blackpool stood out in an excellent competitive field by virtue of its highly creative and innovative synthesis of music and drama in the exploration of human relationships," said Fraser in a release....