Qantas TV Awards Project Director appointed

NEW ZEALAND TELEVISION BROADCASTERS’ COUNCIL

NEWS RELEASE 29 MARCH 2007

Qantas Television Awards Project Director appointed.

Kerryanne Evans, a former senior news and current affairs journalist and Qantas Media Awards winner, is being appointed to manage the Qantas Television Awards.

Bruce Wallace, executive director of the NZTBC, said the organisation is very pleased that Kerryanne will head the Qantas Television Awards team. He said that her leadership will help the awards grow and flourish from last year’s record entries. The awards ceremony will be held in Auckland on Saturday 24 November.

Kerryanne Evans worked in broadcasting journalism for 25 years before leaving the TVNZ Sunday programme in 2003 and becoming a mother. Wallace said that she was an outstanding journalist who had worked in Europe, been a founding reporter on Holmes and had made some outstanding stories for Assignment.

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