For consistently producing innovative, groundbreaking, child-friendly content, and honing exceptional homegrown talent, the country’s leading broadcast company GMA Network won big at the Anak TV Seal Awards 2023 on Dec. 8 at the Iglesia ni Cristo Museum in Quezon City.
A total of 34 programs from the Network, including five GTV programs plus a slew of Kapuso personalities, were given recognition at this year’s Anak TV Seal Awards.
Accolades in the television category were given to GMA Integrated News flagship newscast 24 Oras and 24 Oras Weekend. Winning in the same category were One North Central Luzon, Balitang Southern Tagalog, Balitang Bicolandia, One Western Visayas, and One Mindanao.
GMA Regional TV morning programs GMA Regional TV Early Edition, Mornings with GMA Regional TV, and Regional TV News also received the Anak TV Seal Award.
GMA Regional TV specials 37th Kadayawan Festival 2022: The GMA Regional TV One Mindanao Special Coverage, Pit Senyor, Kapuso: The GMA Regional TV Live Coverage, and HALA BIRA! The GMA Regional TV Dinagyang Special Live Coverage also triumphed in the same category.
The Philippines’ longest-running morning show, Unang Hirit produced by GMA Public Affairs and GMA Integrated News received the award as well.
Further earning Anak TV Seal Awards for Television were GMA Public Affairs programs AHA!, Born to be Wild, and Pinoy M.D.
GMA Entertainment Group also emerged victorious in the same category for the critically acclaimed Maria Clara at Ibarra, educational TV gems Ibilib and Amazing Earth, children’s favorite Daig Kayo ng Lola Ko, talk-variety show Sarap ‘Di Ba?, reality talent show The Clash, fun-filled TiktoClock, and GMA Afternoon Prime’s Abot-Kamay na Pangarap.
Garnering awards too were GMA Synergy’s Limitless: A Musical Trilogy, headlined by Julie Anne San Jose, and the sports newscast program Game On!
GTV programs Balitanghali, Farm To Table, iJuander, Pinas Sarap, and Pinoy A+ were also hailed in the Anak TV Seal Television category.
Popular GMA programs 24 Oras, Maria Clara at Ibarra, Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho, Abot-Kamay na Pangarap, Amazing Earth, and Biyahe ni Drew won in the Household Favorite Programs Television Category.
Kapuso talents shone bright at the event’s Makabata Stars Awards. Alden Richards, David Licauco, Sparkle U actor Allen Ansay, TV host Drew Arellano, Bubble Gang’s Michael V.,, and Unang Hirit host Matteo Guidicelli won in the Makabata Stars Male Television Category.
Triumphing in the Makabata Stars Female Television Category were Bea Alonzo, Julie Anne, Jillian Ward, Sofia Pablo, and Barbie Forteza.
Alden clinched another honor in the Net Makabata Star Male Online category, where netizens vote for the artist they believe possesses the characteristics of a Makabata Star awardee. Fellow winners were Richard Yap and Ken Chan.
Atom Araullo, State of the Nation anchor and I-Witness host, was given the Anak TV Makabata Star Award.
A special tribute was posthumously given to 24 Oras anchor and GMA Integrated News pillar Mike Enriquez. For his consistent excellence in the industry, he was honored as the first-ever inductee to the Anak TV Makabata TV Personality Hall of Fame.
The awards given to GMA Network by Anak TV are a recognition not only of its exemplary programs but also of the Network’s commitment to providing the responsible delivery of accurate and timely information and child-sensitive, family-friendly content.
Anak TV is an organization that promotes media literacy and champions child-friendly content. To encourage the Philippine television industry to produce wholesome, child-sensitive content, it grants programs an outstanding seal during the annual awards.