The balcony TV Internet Award

Congratulations to MenuPages.ie for becoming the first winner of the BalconyTV Internet Award.

Watch the BalconyTV Internet Award presentation:


Entry is now open for the BalconyTV Internet Award 2008.

'BalconyTV is on the lookout for interesting, well designed, entertaining, funky, cool, Irish based websites. It doens't matter how big or small or how obscure. It doesn't matter what the subject matter is. We are looking for five in total, and we hope to award one website on November 22nd the accolade of Best Website on a special BalconyTV.Com broadcast. You can suggest a website, or you can have created the website yourself.

If you have a suggestion send them to stephen@balconytv.com or alternatively you can contact our MySpace at www.myspace.com/balconytv .

Here is an article about why the award came about from Joe Griffin at Silicon Republic

BalconyTV, the Irish website that famously broadcasts music programmes from a Dublin city ledge has told siliconrepublic.com that it will be creating a special BalconyTV Internet Award.

Stephen O'Regan, one of BalconyTV's producers and co-founders claims that the BalconyTV Internet Award will be more accessible than other Irish web awards because there will be no fee for entering.

"Asking a website to pay 150 for consideration then having the audacity to charge 200 to go to the awards is a disgrace", O'Regan told siliconrepublic.com.

"When we won an award last year we were pretty much the only website of our small stature", he continued. "But they charged us about 1000 to go along to these awards!

"You can enter a short film, for example, to the Oscars it would only cost you about US$50!"

O'Regan also claimed that the BalconyTV awards will be more relevent because there will be less categories. "We're just looking for five websites that are fun, innovative sites. I think it'll be interesting to see what's out there.

"I honestly don't think people are that interested in, for example, the best property website in Ireland ", he said.

While a judging panel has yet to be decided, O'Regan told siliconrepublic.com that they had a clear idea of the type of judge they will appoint: "When we had our music awards we put together a panel of DJs to choose the winners. Hopefully we'll put together a team of specialists who'll be a bit more edgy and funky than the ones that judge the other awards."

They are currently accepting applications and the winner of the BalconyTV Internet Award will be announced on a special show to be broadcast on BalconyTV.Com on November 22nd.

By Joe Griffin

www.siliconrepublic.com