2004 Antenna Awards

2004 Antenna Awards title card

Date

February 28, 2004

Location

Storey Hall, RMIT City Campus, Melbourne

Country

Australia

Hosted by

Esther Makris
Gary Mitchell

Highlights

Most awards

Radio Karate (4)

Most nominations

Radio Karate (8)

Program of the Year

Pluck

Television/radio coverage

Network

Channel 31 Melbourne
Channel 31 Sydney
Briz 31 Brisbane
C31 Adelaide
Access 31 Perth
LINC TV Lismore

Runtime

80 minutes

Produced by

Kristy Fuller

Directed by

Craig Young

Antenna Awards

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The 2004 Antenna Awards ceremony honoured the best in Australian community television in 2003, and took place on February 28, 2004, at Storey Hall, RMIT City Campus, Melbourne, beginning at 7:00 p.m. AEST.^[1] The ceremony, the first of its kind in Australia, was announced on December 29, 2003.^[2] Produced by Kristy Fuller and directed by Craig Young, the ceremony was hosted by Esther Makris and Gary Mitchell.^[3]

Antennas were presented in 31 categories. Radio Karate won four awards, including Best Comedy Program and Best Editing, the most for the evening. Other winners include Dawn's Creek and Pluck with two awards, including Program of the Year for Pluck.^[4]^[5]

The ceremony was televised live by Channel 31 Melbourne, Channel 31 Sydney, Briz 31 Brisbane, C31 Adelaide, and LINC TV Lismore, and on a one-week delay to Access 31 Perth.^[2] On 19 March 2015, the ceremony was made available to stream on YouTube.^[3]

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Comedy Program Radio Karate – Tim Bartley, Andy Lee, Hamish Blake, Ryan Shelton & Duncan Campbell Blokesworld Champagne Comedy Rant Raucous The Rumpus Room	Best Drama Program Yartz – "Filthy Pervert Seeks Same" – Ralph Mclean & Peter Hanrahan Yartz – "Coffee" Yartz – "Ripe" Yartz – "White Bred"
Best Arts Program Short Film Distillery – Adam Clarkson Public Hangings – Andrew Mckenzie Gallery Watch Romanian Mosaic Yartz Young Originals 2003	Best Music Program Music Pot – Richard Micallef Chartbusting 80s Asylum Nu Country TV SYN TV Warp Factory
Best Variety Program Living It Loud – Steve Williams Dawn's Crack G'Day Maltaussies Raucous S+M The Wine Show Socialite	Best News/Current Affairs Program Woomera 2002 – Anthony Snowden Freeway – Desmond Mouti C News Newsline Not In Our Name Perth Talks To CTV
Best Interview Program Fashion Police – Leila Koren Books WA Living It Loud Nat Chat Robina Courtin About Stat	Best Sports Program MXTV – Brendan Bell End to End: Lawn Bowls in WA Hold Ya Horses Jack and the Greentalk Let's Go Fishing Skipper Trucks Baseball
Best Panel Program Sweet And Sour – Lena Andel Hold Ya Horses Jack and the Greentalk No Limits The Reviewers The Stayers	Best Live/Outside Broadcast Program Geelong Carols In The Park – Peter Wood & Dean Gray (Videoworks) Benefit Concert Dawn's Crack Frontiers at the Forum Hungarian Community Song Festival Southern Footy Show
Best Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Program At Home with the Baccalas – Joe DeMartino Aaj Kal Pinoy TV Qua e La with Tom Padula Sound of the Perfume River TV Sri Lanka	Best Faith Program Robina Courtin About – Peter Lane Breaking Barriers Romanian Mosaic The Young Buddhist
Best Sound S+M The Wine Show – Michael Buckland Briefcase Dig & Dine with Denise Fashionations Warp Factory Youth Scope	Best Camerawork Radio Karate – Tim Bartley Breakaway Dig & Dine with Denise Fashionations S+M The Wine Show St Kilda Baths - Sponsorship Announcement
Best Editing Extreme WA – Jeffrey Williams Cinema Cooking Cleverly with Beverly Radio Karate S+M The Wine Show Shoot!	Best Indigenous Program Songlines In The City – "Christmas" – Peter Johnson NAIDOC Day 2003 Gallery Watch "Coming Home" Frontiers at the Forum
Best Children's Program Playgroup In A Box – Yvonne Healy Scouts Australia Campwest SYN TV	Best Youth Program Youth Scope – Anita Krsnik, Michael Zampogna & Simon Hydzik Dawn's Crack Pluck SYN TV Teenwire The Vibe
Best Program for Senior Living Viewers Time Of Your Life – Peter Haydock Dig & Dine with Denise End to End: Lawn Bowls in WA Friday Night Live Theatre Royal The Garden Tap	Best Music Composition Dawn's Crack – "Half Hour Shower" – Simon Barlow, Nick Barlow, Tim Beveridge & Matt Mckenzie C31 Melbourne Station IDs Playgroup In A Box Raucous Short Film Distillery Who Wants to Survive Being a Popstar with the Weakest Mole?
Best Station ID C31 Melbourne – Rob Nairn & Mat Govoni Channel 31 Sydney	Best Program ID / Main Title / Promo Radio Karate – Tim Bartley Army Reserves Cooking Cleverly with Beverly Love on the Box Short Film Distillery Summer SYN TV Treasure Hunt
Best Sponsorship Announcement Manny's Music – Andrew Coyle & Rob Nairn Boat Search Jackie O Merchandise Message Renmark Homes Sirens Restaurant	Best Program That Supports Local Metropolitan Communities Eye on Perth – Andrew Round Briefcase C News Copp This Deaf TV Le Chaim - To Life: Jewish Vision
Best Program That Supports Local Rural And Regional Communities Balls N All Mandurah Christmas Special Playgroup In A Box QSMARTZ Western Stars Spectacular	Special Awards for Programs That Have Made Significant Contributions to the Diversity of Community Television No Limits – Sarah Barton Theories of Everything – David Tow Vasili's Garden – Peter Deskes Classical Catapult Frontiers at the Forum Melbourne Musos My World Nusantara TV
Best New Producer Tim Bartley – Radio Karate Alana Kornfeld – This Town Brisbane Claire Butler & Josephine Sicilano – Raucous Naomi Davis – Pluck Ricki-Jane McArthur – Breakaway Simon Hydzick – Teenwire	Best Female Presenter Cheryle Wilson – Harvest Festival Dewani Shebubaker – SYN TV Denise Drysdale – Dig & Dine with Denise Emma Race – Dawn's Crack Karen Gruner – Weekend Gardener Sophia Hlinovsky – This Town Brisbane Stella Young – No Limits
Best Male Presenter Jack Post & Alex Ford – SYN TV Andy Lee – Radio Karate Jeff Jenkins – Chartbusting 80s John Lewis – Gallery Watch John McKenna – No Limits Hamish Blake – Radio Karate Scott McAnally – S+M The Wine Show	Producer of the Year Shona Devlin – Dawn's Crack & Pluck Andrew McKenzie – Public Hangings Anneliese Morgan & Andrea Williams – The Rumpus Room Steve Williams – Living It Loud Tibor Meszaros – CTV Perth Zoe Dennstein – S+M The Wine Show
Program of the Year Pluck – Shona Devlin & Kristy Fuller Living it Loud Radio Karate Raucous Teenwire The Rumpus Room This Town Brisbane Yartz

Programs with multiple nominations and awards

Programs that received multiple nominations
Nominations	Program
8	Radio Karate ^{[note 1]}
6	Dawn's Crack ^{[note 1]}
	S+M The Wine Show ^{[note 1]}
	SYN TV ^{[note 1]}^{[note 2]}
	Yartz ^{[note 3]}
5	Raucous ^{[note 1]}
4	Dig & Dine with Denise ^{[note 1]}
	Living It Loud ^{[note 1]}
	No Limits ^{[note 1]}
	Pluck ^{[note 1]}
3	Frontiers at the Forum
	Gallery Watch ^{[note 1]}
	Playgroup In A Box
	Short Film Distillery
	Teenwire
	The Rumpus Room ^{[note 1]}
	This Town Brisbane ^{[note 1]}
2	Breakaway ^{[note 1]}
	C News
	Chartbusting 80s ^{[note 1]}
	Cooking Cleverly with Beverly
	Fashionations
	End to End: Lawn Bowls in WA
	Hold Ya Horses
	Jack and the Greentalk
	Public Hangings
	Robina Courtin About
	Romanian Mosaic
	Warp Factory
	Youth Scope

Programs that received multiple awards
Awards	Program
4	Radio Karate
2	Dawn's Crack
2	Pluck

Presenters and performers

The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers.

Presenters

Name(s)	Role
Bryce Ives	Master of Ceremonies
Joelene Crnogorac	Announcer
Amy Parks Carmen Petropulo Tanja Nedel	Presenters of the awards for Best Comedy Program, Best Drama Program and Best Arts Program
Lena Andel Kevin Jope	Presenters of the awards for Best Music Program, Best Variety Program and Best News/Current Affairs Program
Ryan Shelton Andy Lee	Presenters of the awards for Best Interview Program, Best Sports Program and Best Panel Program
Andrew Brine	Keynote speaker
Ting Cheng Cher Zhong	Presenters of the awards for Best Live/Outside Broadcast Program, Best Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Program and Best Faith Program
Tom Padula Tanveer Ahmed	Presenters of the awards for Best Sound, Best Camerawork and Best Editing
Tara Strong Graeme Stephens	Presenters of the awards for Best Indigenous Program and Best Children's Program
Joy Hruby John McKenna	Presenters of the awards for Best Youth Program and Best Program for Senior Living Viewers
Sudha Saimi Vasili Kanidiadis	Presenters of the awards for Best Music Composition, Best Station ID and Best Program ID / Main Title / Promo
Julie Cvitan Daniel Burt	Presenters of the awards for Best Sponsorship Announcement, Best Program That Supports Local Metropolitan Communities and Best Program That Supports Local Rural And Regional Communities
Amy Morrison Joe DeMartino	Presenters of the Special Awards for Programs That Have Made Significant Contributions to the Diversity of Community Television and Best New Producer
Scott Brennan	Presenter of the awards for Best Female Presenter and Best Male Presenter
Wayne Rogers Simon Marshall	Presenter of the awards for Producer of the Year and Presenter of the Year

Performers

Name(s)	Role	Performed
Monica Weightman Band	Performers	"Lost Generation"
Sabrina Chou Dance Group	Performers	Cultural dance routine

Notes

References

^ "Dave's Diary - 11/2/04 - C31 Awards". Nu Country TV. 11 February 2004. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
^ ^a ^b Carbone, Suzanne (29 December 2003). "THE LAST WORD". The Age. Fairfax Media. p. 12. Retrieved 29 May 2016. Gongs for the unsung stars
^ ^a ^b "2019 Antenna Awards". Antenna Awards. 28 February 2004. C31 Melbourne & Geelong. Retrieved 28 May 2016. Youtube title: THE 2004 ANTENNA AWARDS
^ Tomas, Juan-Carlo (1 March 2004). "Top gong for DIY-TV show that gives youth a voice". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 29 May 2016.
^ Italiano, Anna (3 March 2004). "The Antenna Awards 2004". CBOnline. Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. Archived from the original on 12 February 2005. Retrieved 28 May 2016.

Community television in Australia

Channels

Terrestrial	C31 Melbourne C44 Adelaide
Satellite/Cable	Aurora Community Channel Indigenous Community TV

Defunct