Toronto, Canada, Aug 6, 2008 / 11:31 am
Toronto-based Salt + Light Television has won the Television Station of the Year Gabriel Award, considered the “Emmy” of religious programming, beating out other candidates competition from the major television networks.
The Gabriel Awards have been sponsored by the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals for more than forty years. The award was founded in 1965 to “recognize the outstanding artistic achievement in a television or radio program or series which entertains and enriches with a true vision of humanity and a true vision of life.”
Writing in a July 30 letter to Salt + Light Television, Academy President Frank Morock described the prestige of the Gabriel award.
“It proclaims a value-centered view of society and humanity, and it raises our consciousness,” Morock explained. He said the academy hopes the award challenges Salt + Light to continue to provide the quality programming “our world so desperately needs” to the public.