rick and thank you all for being here tonight we are also taping this so that you will be able to view it the day after thanksgiving on november the twenty seventh so we have to make sure we get it right so we're excited to have you here at our very first annual scan awards presentation this is our version of the academy awards a little toned down because we don't have academy award money but we're going to we're going to treat you to a great event anyway i hope you had fun downstairs we want to thank personalized catering we think they did a great job and again we're happy that you're all of all i was saying it's so important to have sponsors and we had some sponsors tonight and i would like to thank them for sponsoring our first annual scan awards we have we have sponsoring tonight's the metra financial services if you you were able to delight in beer from one hasa beers and we thank them the city of seattle is also a sponsor we thank the city of seattle odum southern wine distributors we thank them for the wine that we delight we're certain manner guest home we think you very much for being a sponsor as well all right so we hope all of you grabbed a program when you came in if you did not we have some programs back there a little bit about the presentations that will happen tonight your program lists the order of the awards that will be presented if you are an award recipient we would ask you that you be prepare to come to the stage when you hear your name announced we have seventeen different categories we are presenting this evening so you will have up to thirty seconds acknowledge and to thank people for selecting you now you know we're not as bad as the academy i don't think we're going to start playing music or anything if you go over your thirty seconds but please try to keep it within the thirty seconds when you are announced as the winner we have a time keeper who's in the front row tosh and like i said before she's our youth program manager and i need to look at taj a lot to make sure that i'm staying on track and she will let you know how much time you have left and so when she starts making signals and things that means you're thirty seconds are up and you need to sit down but we also are happy that you were the winner ok so now at this time i'd like to introduce to you harry gadgets who is our board treasure because he is carrying with him he's an accountant in the c p a and he will he told me that he didn't want to speak to meit so i'm actually this is like the cademy awards i'm actually going to say his lines and and so he has this briefcase right here and in this briefcase what we have are the recipients of those shows that are the ski an award winner for thirteen of the awards being presented tonight there was both a nomination process as well as a final voting that occurred through and on light through an online ballot effort and we would like to say we were so pleased because we had so many people who voted on that online ballot now the thing is next year we know that some of you voted over and over and over and over and over and over and over again and we know who you are and so next year we might do something about that but we were pleased that so many people participated and then of the remaining three awards that will be given tonight for technical quality and volunteering for a scan that was actually selected by the scan employees because we know who volunteers on a regular basis and we know over time who's programs have been approved substantially since they first came to ski and so to start off the awards i'm going to ask that harry present the briefcase to me and then all presented to them so they'll know who the award winners are so harry do you have the  somebody will come up and get that with all the awards and everything in it ok so to start off the evening we were present the first can award in the category a favorite arts and entertainment program and so we are honored in your program it says that jazz singer mercedes nicole robertson will present that award will she's running a little late and so what we will do is we will have could b b monet of new black arts west she's pretty well known as a the theater person she will come up and present the first award for your favorite arts and entertainment program c thank you thank you well how's everybody doing tonight is an exciting night right all right good my name is key b b monet i'm the executive director of new black arts west theater and in i'm so proud and privileged to be no wait a minute i think i'm supposed to have the clips go first because i was thinking that i was going to you to see a clip you know just like the academy awards you know you say unnamed and you see a clip and you say a name is the eclipse will you please roll the first but we certainly want to thank scam first of all for making it possible for us to even have a show like this on the and secondly we want to thank all of the people who worked on question though are musicians artists  camera people we have some of those here with us tonight and they are the people that really deserve the oh right so this is our first show and you know how you have technical difficulties on your first show so what i just learned is that the presenters are actually supposed to be at that microphone so prisoners when you come up i'm supposed to stay here and not leave this spot is what i was just told and the prisoners will come to that microphone and they'll do the presenting and then the person who wins in that category the trophies are all wind up you know in the order of the presentation ok and so now my page and everything now i have to find out where i'm supposed to be but i got it ok so we're very excited because our next prisoner will be a soon to ne and probably most of you know her as the publisher of the northwest asian weekly it's one of my favorite it's one of my favorite newspapers to read because it's always gives you up to date information on what's happening in the community so let's hear a round of applause for a suited  i'm excited even though i am not a nominee i'm here to priests and the award for favorite motivational or health program these are programs that are aimed at self improvement and improving the quality of clip hi i'm star born remember to be a star you have to shine your own light follow your own path and you say it's a bit snowy outside  you so that you can be the nominees are korean pows by paul wall producer stop on karen campbell producer the natural perfect perspective andrew all house producer to your health producer try harra holistic health and wellbeing mako koskie war peace barbara brenda producer and their award recipient see my hand is shaking you i would like to think and everybody scanned past and present for having words of peace on the station and beverly johnson who initiated this and i'd like to give you a favorite quote of mine from what he said how peace come to this earth drop by drop like the snow melting in the mountains it comes together and it comes together in the most fragile of streams and it comes together and it comes together until it forms a roaring torrent that nothing can stop so i'm also for sending the award for favorite sports program while scan does not air a lot of sports programming the programs in this category are among viewers favorites and now let's ro well we want to congratulate words of peace and roller derby those are very difficult categories and i didn't know who to vote for myself because i like all of those shows and all in those two categories and all of you people out there who love sports we need some more sports programs on the channel so start thinking about some of those favorite sports i know i'm an ice skating person so maybe we can get some ice skating go in our or you know some other kinds of sports all right so i've got to stick to the program here and the next thing up is can we please welcome the maxwell street revivalist to the stage which has performed on scan blues to do their delightful to listen to they showcase vintage blues honoring chicago maxwell street musicians and blues tradition with grand roberts on guitar and vocals and guy quinton o on acoustic bass let's hear it for the maxwell street revival they were great i like you i've seen him before and they were particularly great tonight and they're great on blues to do so you have to catch guy and gregg because they are great blues performers and now we would like to welcome to the stage ok now we'd like to welcome to the stage my friend carl livingston you know how you know these people who are over cheever's were called teaches he's a college professor he's a lawyer and he's also a minister and we would and i got a book out that is hardly selling now she states in bootstrapped i know i'm a jamaican and to make it well well religion deigns to answer some combination of the big questions of life that science can't fully and adequately answered least not yet who made me where i come from why am i here where my going how am i going to get there and scan airs a wide spectrum of programming that addresses religious and spiritual beliefs representing the breath ethnic and cultural communities in seattle it's my pleasure to announce the nominees for the favorite religious spiritual or favorite faith program award and now let's roll the cli so again it's my pleasure to announce the nominees christian media john park producer gays for jesus john applegate producer words of peace barbara brennan producer you i'm practicing for the i mean the boys i want you to know you can do that again you guys i just want to say thank you scan awards first and foremost i cannot forget my lord and savior jesus christ thank you lord for this award thank you so much is my first television award and also i would like to thank my husband who is the financial backer behind everything that i exciting congratulations next we're going to have carl stay up here with us and we're going to have him present the award for favorite political or community affairs oriented program and i forgot to mention karl's book so if you want to know more about correlates book because he also writes than ask carl about that as well i love that woman who gets what when and how in the areas of health and housing security and subsidies and education and i'm going to present the award for the favorite political a affairs oriented program these programs address the many issues facing the people of the puget sound today and aim to both express political opinion and educate the viewer to the issues and communities of this region and now  all right again it's my pleasure to present these nominees nine eleven was an inside job been colet producer adventure t v cultural festival t j williamson producer all day long live will wilson producer common sense perspective steve peters producer and the recipient is well i didn't expect it actually so i really want to thank actually the viewers out there who appreciate the cultural festivals that i bring i been covering them for a number of years and i believe no matter how different we are we're much more alike than you realize and i encourage everyone to attend the cultural festivals most of them happening at the seattle center and if you don't know about them watch my program saturday nights five o'clock and you can find out will congratulations t j is one of my favorite people so it's a wonderful thing that he won that award tonight him and i have this wonderful love hate relationship and so congratulations t j ok all right so the next thing that we have to present our next award is another good friend of mine i tell you that seattle is just filled with great people and we have mario parin dance who is the executive director of can say  counseling and referral service and i have the privilege of working with him it's a member of the minority executive directors coalition and just on yesterday we met with elton valent who is the director of department of corrections and i'll tell you that mario had the best questions to ask him so thank you for being here mario thank you thank you that was that's another fun category and you know one of the reasons scan is such a fun place to work at is because everybody is represented at ski and we have programs for maybe community every age group every language you get to hook up with folks you haven't seen in a long time like sa they t v him and i used to hang out and do things together in the past so it's a wonderful place to be and next i am excited to bring to you our next intertainment nuclear chewing nuclear chewing airs on scan fridays and sundays at eleven thirty pm so for your entertainment pleasure nuclear chewing recently while searching through the nucular showing footage archives of a very rare and priceless piece of footage was found here for the first time active life for you looking individuals on now a time bomb voluble a sauce on does a shirt make me look like a rapist no but your freakin mustache does don't dance around the subject i challenge you to a duel i didn't see that coming do i my name is nick brando and here's a news you don't know and local news police are searching for a six foot staircase it's accused of continually beating my wife and i right fell right international news former president george w bush finally fulfilled a campaign promise to sleep with every person in the world he's got an approval rating of twenty one percent well authorities are baffled on how to prosecute but one thing's for sure no one  first there's fertility the beginning heaven life then there is sentience heaven is lost life is explained and the stars ignite the sky the second stage reveals and lightens and ferment our mortality and when the glow that comes from birth fades into understanding the trinity is complete by the hand of death the final acts the stage that brings worse and the completion of a cycle of gro you know kids we've had a lot of fun here tonight but there are some serious issues we need to talk about staircases rape homophobia and poetry aren't funny all right so another big kanpur nuclear chilling and remember you can watch them on fridays and sundays at eleven thirty pm and they're actually really funny i appreciate him being here tonight now i know why taj and are giving me faces because i did not put on my reading glasses and i skipped a very important part so at this time i'm going to ask and bob to come to the stage i've already introduced you to toss top scans  program manager and then many of you know bob may cannery he was with us and then he went and took a more lucrative job as a contractor at microsoft so we forgive him for that but we do miss bob so let's welcome bob back would just like to say first of all i don't know if bob remembers this but the last time we were on stage together we were seeing in owed to patrick swayze so this is really exciting for me oh my gosh so we're here to present this is my favorite we're here to present the award for technically most improved program scan staff nominated and voted on the programs they felt have shown the most technical growth in the past year let's see some accomplish and it's all about us deciding that this ocean is tremendously important to us whether you're in nebraska or iowa you've got to understand the connection between what oh well deserved award that was another difficult category congratulations to call for investigation i always appreciate their tenacity in that they you know get all those shows out and they're always  we know that they love skiing and skin loves them all right so moving right along i am going to sometimes you get to work with really great people and mario i don't think lucky and you get to work with great people and mario would you come to the stage because he is going to present the award for favorite one time producer and program congratulations that was another tough category i think we had some of the lots of voters in that category i think they voted over and over again as well and we appreciate all of that vote ok so sometimes you get to work with great people i get to work with great people all the time and one of those great people to work with this board president stan him right and he's going to come up and do th well that the category is favorite live production and i've worked on a lot of production myself for quite a long time and you know you just never know what happens when a live production is a member the time we had governor michael houri on the show and this fly came on the stage and it kept landing on on the host fred barrett and then on on governor lowery and they kept patting each other trying to get the fly off but that was a live t v moment so let's roll the clips and see if any of that stuff happens to do is start making plans for the future ok give us some help yeah how long have you been married we've been married for twenty five years wow i think you two are like  and we do not want any more of this manipulation of the weather weather modification the tele geodynamics used against us and it's high time to have  always we have a cold really important about hormone replacement therapy is that eventually yes you're going to need to get off the hor so congratulations to all of these nominees for favorite live production psychic speaks carolyn johnson producer lose to do t v marlee walker producer call for investigation for trisha johnson home producer hot rocks rosander producer and the nature excuse me the nature path of perspective and are all have already undone two of the three so this one wouldn't be so tough to get open and the winner is blue's to do t v marley walker know what a great community to be a part of i must admit paul taylor sitting over there really i wouldn't be here without him because there would be no show without paul taylor so i have to give credit to my co producer who is so much fun to week work with and lisa where are you i know you're here any other blues to do crew delores is here she's oftentimes on the crew as well and what a blast it's i been doing radio for so congratulations to blues to do one of the reasons i don't mind working late on a friday night is i get to listen to blues to do you and they just make the whole place just rock with all of the music and the good sound so congratulations to blues to do thank you for being a part of scan next i want to invite back to the stage could b b monet there she is in new black arts west and she will present in two more categor i already know when i get up here i have to bring the microphone down the most creative idea for a program really almost every scan program bits this category as it is individuals and organizations from our community who are using their creativity and ingenuity to create create such wonderful programmings for our viewers role that could please well thank you very much it's pretty wonderful for classical music based program to be able to win an award like this and it wouldn't have happened except for one thing and that is this man standing right here len anderson mark we wouldn't have an arc of the music in the artistic direction so he's the reason behind the show and i'm honored to do the next one is well this one is the favorite educational program this is category this is real close and dear to my heart please roll the clips in doing what i'm going to put my swell is chicken power of course my goal for the real garden is to make the only put for the garden to be and the award goes to the real garden jason morehead produce you i'd like to acknowledge and thank my wife and camera crew and the mouthpiece for the show but she's yours and eyes that brings it to you each week thanks to the scan people of showed such patience and tolerance for in order to put somebody with a little dirt under their fingernails on t v and thanks to the viewers who you know voted and email and phone each week and give me ideas for next week so  thank you congratulations i told you skin has great programming you can find anything that you want on skin whatever your fetish is you can find it and it's in a positive in a positive in a really good way ok so everybody needs a mentor and i would like to present our next person who will present an award miss dawn mason because she's been my mentor as long as i can remember who was the former representative of the thirty seventh district which is the district we're in right now the easiest protegee i've ever had fact i'm most likely learned as much from her from me so thank you how exciting to be here to support her that oh to see her doing this and so i'm going to present the award for the favorite new show of two thousand and nine these are programs that first aired on scanned this year so now let's roll the clips i stand at the profound level that promoting religious freedom is an essential building walked for peace and stability here and throughout the world in this we are allied with his holiness a courageous champion of religious scan t v now some of the conversations are going to be a little bit like he did in the other than that but it's all good because the common bond for the coming three and have together is the love of god and we want to deal with nuclear chewing blackie and lance garland producers all right congratulations again vanessa high energy vanessa i always when i know her show's going to be on the air just like i tune into all of your shows ok so mercede robertson couldn't be with us earlier but she's here now to present the music award and mercedes will be featured on and later during the holiday season because she is a great jazz musician in her own right welcome thank you so much i'm so excited about the show and i'm so excited to be here and see you know because what you do believe it or not is work because we're all god's children so thank you i'm here to present the favorite music program scan airs diverse mix of programs that feature incredible heavy metal classical latino and popular music and now  hot rocks rolls andrews producer music any city gordon curvey producer haven't lost for words but i would like to say one thing not that it lost for words i'd like to thank all of the new people who have come in to askand staff just in this past year and made such a tremendous positive difference in the way scam runs and the way that the future of the station is looking thank you di right well congratulations crescendo i was going to say they shouldn't get any more words but after they said those nice things about us it's all right you know it's all right because we're really fortunate that we have a great staff a and say hello and everything because i say scan new that's what we're about and we hope to do lots of great things here at scan with your help all right so next we have more intertainment we have coming to the stage at this moment in time let me find aaron daniel who's a one man band now when aaron came me and he was telling me about his one man band and i'm looking forward to listening to ok so we have to remember that aaron daniels because when he become so famous and we can't afford to go see oh remember that we saw him here at this piano awards first so you always have to come back and play for arrested ski and that was wonderful and we think hard rocks for introducing him to us you know i'm going to have to get a hook up for my next birthday party ok so the reason that scan works is because of all of you as producers and content providers to come to you give us your time you give us your content you do your live programs and so at this point we would like to give a special award to our volunteer of the year and any of you could have been nominated as the volunteer of the year because of all the time and support that you give us both in terms of being producers and content providers but all of those incumbents to the lobes and like sunshine who came and helped us get out all the ski and awards we just want to say thank you because we really appreciate it and we will have kathy kathy where are you kathy who is the producer of public exposure to come up and give the award for the volunteer i am so honored to present this award tonight these volunteers who are recognizing tonight are nominated by scan and their staff each of these nominees has given countless hours and of course to all of so the nominees are andre middleton bill bernie bridget barker don't even steve is not here to accept is a war and steve when i first came to scan everyone said you got to meet steve if you have any questions about sam he's a sound expert and true enough he's worked on star born he's worked on the music shows everything and he's been like our technical assistant person around sound at will steve moved to eastern washington and he couldn't be back here tonight but will make sure he gets the award so kathy will you accept it on behalf  all right our next prisoner she is more than special she has been on for quite some time and she is known by viewers as the goddess screen would you please come and present the next  thanks ok i'm going to present the producers award best overall technical quality scan staff nominated and voted on the programs in this category and now let's at the end of this trip you pulled in the ballard what do you want to accomplish it's all about awareness and it's all about us deciding that this ocean is tremendously important to us whether you're in nebraska or iowa you've got to understand the connection between what's i just want to say thanks too for inviting me to be a presenter again i'm shannon kringen i do the show got a screening and thank you scan i love i love sharing in this way and thank you for being being here scan so the nominees again for best overall technical quality are blues to do t v marley walker producer democracy now  rocks rose andrews producer thanks northwest indian news and public exposure kathy at dulce and producer and thank you everyone i could have done it out on this is tom's brainchild we've been doing this for four years and it's so much fun every year we do it and it gets more tremendous every year we do it we have an eye wonderful crew that we couldn't do without programs we love working with blues to do's and marley and we love all of the rest of the musical people and everybody else's spin there i'd like to thank my son sean who's our technical director whose absolute genius at what he does and want to invite you all out to the hot rocks music awards this year at the lynwood convention center on march twenty eight idea of having this award came from the fact that i went to hot rocks first award show and i was like ok heavy metal is that my i really appreciate it but it's going to be really loud and before i with some of the employees gave me some earplugs and save be prepared and then i got there i didn't even use the earplugs because the music was so great so i have come to really appreciate all of the music shows that are on ski and hot rocks i think i've been sold and i like heavy metal more than i thought i possibly could ok so i am happy to introduce and suter now s had a great a great team of leadership throughout its history and between the years of two thousand and two and two thousand and six and souter was the executive director and she's here to present a special  thank you i'm so excited i'm just this is something we thought about so many years ago in it's just been great to watch it and i voted just to let you know who i am so pleased to be called on to make a special presentation tonight it goes all of us an opportunity to reflect on the nature and history of public access and the special people who contribute to making it work the concept of public access was an outgrowth of the free speech movement hundred eighty s as cost effective television production equipment became available to the communities the means of making television evolve beyond an idea to become established as the standard element of cable systems for those of us that watch peg and cable subscribers ship grow we are proud of the role that public access plays in providing freedom of expression community building programming and opportunities for everyone to have an outlet on television more than thirty years ago don hadn't began working you know people t v in atlanta don has made it his life's work to ensure th public access t v is available to the public he's worked both as an advocate but more importantly to me personally as a hands on administrator with broad skills as a production manager a videographer a teacher in a supervisor don has worked in all aspects of this business in two thousand done moved to seattle where he joined skin and now nearly ten years later he is retiring now when don for at least four six years five years i'm sure he will use the time to pursue other interests some of which we share photography glass art tonight we present on heaven with the public access toward to recognize his achievements in the movement in his day to day efforts at the channel all to protect public access and keep local community on the air please join me in thanking don and wishing him good luck as he strives into his next step of life thank you guys if you come down well i'm glad to know i have a few friends around and i all i can say is thanks to all the good people i've worked with for all these many years i will pick out two people in particular want to sell you out who was my mentor when i got fake you for all of those years of service well winding down we have come to our last award and i am happy to say to present our very last award we have the president of the seattle city council richard calling thank you you so much and it is great to be here and to celebrate this incredible feast of creativity that i've had the chance to see so much of tonight and i want to say thank you to everybody who has been part of this program and everybody  been part of scan and to and then don and all the people who have done the producing and the work and the volunteering and making this thing possible so thanks diane and your budget is sa today that's great ok so i have such a pleasure here to be able to present the ward for favorite locally produced program the favorite program produced by individuals who live in our excited to bring you a faith based talk show there's a lot of things that you see on television that aren't relevant to your situation or as i say there's a lot of things on t v that doesn't express god's image and go so the nominees for favorite locally produced program crescendo mark anderson producer and the scan award goes to well this is pretty unbelievable but i guess the the people that we have to thank for this award is our audiences our audiences live concerts and our audiences at six thirty on thursday evenings and  two o'clock on wednesday afternoons we thank you we hope that next year we can even bring better and more interesting programs to you and pay the one man band we want you on our show congratulations christian oh ok well you know we are winding down and we thank you all for being here i want you to know that you will be able to watch this your day after thanksgiving on november the twenty seventh friday at one thirty in the afternoon i want to give a shout out to all of the scam staff they have worked so hard to put together relations person who is over here with the camera and sarah and so we just want to shout out because they are so wonderful to work with you know i love coming to work because they keep me on they keep me entertained nick is not here he's back there at the station because we had to still make sure that our channel was program while we were here enjoying the scan awards so we have a great staff we have a great board we have great producers and content providers next year we want to make it even better so thank you all for coming