Irving Community Television Network (ICTN) was the proud recipient of six first place as well as three second place awards, putting us as the best for providing government programming in the entire state of Texas (competition included stations in cities far bigger than Irving) for the second year in a row. But we don't merely sit on our laurels here. We'll be working toward a third year in a row and that means other honors as well. It's all about the programming and putting on what the community wants to see. Such shows as Slappy Time Circus for the kids informs about circus clowns and has proven very entertaining for all ages. InVision Irving features unique businesses here in Irving. Wish to learn how to make a pizza pie? Or how about learning to ride a motorcycle in the dirt? Or even ballroom dancing? These are each subjects covered on the magazine show called City Source. This program offers information on what's happening in Irving in the form of a monthly talk show that promises to take viewers behind the scenes and learn about a wide variety of attractions.

TV24 is a Latvian first digital news channel broadcasting on 24 hours basis. TV24 is covers more than 600 000 people audience and operated by Baltkom Group. The TV channel is also available in the web as TV24 Live. Promoted as mainly news, culture and entertainment TV channel, TV 24 cooperates with world well-know news agencies: mostly BNS and the Associated Press.

A weather rerun of WMTW TV channel of Poland Spring/Portland, Maine, the ABC-owned television station, also known as ABC 8. With the Motto The Top Stories and a Complete Forecast in the First 8 Minutes, the WMTW channel claims to be the provider of the most comprehensive newscast in a very condensed format. Started in Sep 25, 1954, the channel has changed the owners for several times. Now it's owned and operated by Hearst Television Corporation that allows syndicating the ABC-produced news content featured on the channel as News 8 WMTW. The TV station also has its own great staff, such the popular anchors as: Dave Guthro and sports narrator Travis Lee; and reporters: Nikole Killion and Roger Griswold.

CCTV1 is the main TV channel of China Central Television network launched on September 2, 1958 as the first television station of People Republic of China named Beijing TV News Channel. Since that channel has been developed into a large network with more than 12 integrated TV stations (most of them are broadcasting 24 hours a day.) CCTV1's programming schedule consists of newscasts being aired on hourly basis and wide range of other news programs: interviews, talk shows, live reports, etc. Morning weekday programming of CCTV1 includes: News Network, Focus, NICE Golden Theatre, Hear the world and Daily Drama. On the midday time you can watch News 30 and Emotion Theatre. On the evenings CCTV1 proposes well balanced news and entertainment programming: Evening News and Starry Night Theatre. Besides abovementioned CCTV1 features lots of other TV shows and live broadcasts: New Year Festival, Spring Festival Evening Bridal, The Ministry of Culture Spring Gala Festival, Qu Yuan Tan, Moving China Awards, Party Lantern, 315 Party, Army Day August Evening, Mid-Autumn Evening, etc.

Fox 5 news, or WNYW Channel 5 is Fox-owned news channel transmitting over eastern United States and located in New York. Fox 5 NY is also available worldwide on satellite via DirecTV and in Internet as Fox 5 live. In 2008, Fox 5 began broadcasting their newscasts in HD. Now Fox 5 airs one of the America's most popular programs "Fox 5 News at Ten" as New York's first and USA longest-running primetime newscast. It has recognizable and yet famous announcement: "It's 10:00 p.m.... Do you know where your children are?" Also, The Fox 5 news channel carry early evening weekend newscasts, that are subject to delay or preemption due to sports coverage. Another popular Fox 5 program is "Good Day New York" which was added in 1988 and remains to be one of the loveliest news programs of New-Yorkers till now.

For European and American viewers, Iran's Sahar TV1 may, at first, seem like a series of English-language broadcasts from the other side of the looking glass, so distinctly foreign and so radically different from other international media it demands a serious paradigm shift. In fact, if Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) inspires some shock and awe among its worldwide viewers, it has achieved a significant part of its mission. The IRIB website explains in no uncertain terms, Sahar TV1 seeks to introduce the Islamic Revolution of Iran to foreign viewers as the most significant, influential uprising of the past century by explaining Islam's views. Where cultures and values collide, perhaps understanding begins. One admirably objective international analyst suggests, Sahar TV1 is as fiercely Islamic as Fox News seems overwhelmingly "American". In other words, viewers of both networks must watch with healthy respect for built-in bias and not-so-subtle promotion of political and sectarian ideology. You don't watch in spite of the bias; you watch because of it.