FOKLEX Awards at Golden Tulip
The fifth edition of the FOKLEX Media Awards for media practioners mainly from radio comes off on Saturday, March 26 at the Golden Tulip Kumasi.
And this year, the awards scheme which used to be the preserve of practitioners in the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo Regions, has been extended to cover the Eastern and Northern Regions too.
Speaking at the launch, Mr Frank Akwasi Owusu, CEO of FOKLEX Media Production, organisers of the scheme said the main objective of the award is to encourage the various media practitioners and to let them know that people appreciate their work.
“The awards also serve as a motivation to the winners and spur them on to give off their best.
Since we started five years ago, we have learnt a lot and can now spread our coverage and extend to other regions”, he added.
According to him, some of the categories to be contested for include the Best Morning Show, Best Sports Host, Best Social Programme, Best Radio Programme, Best Entertainment Show Host among others.
In all, there are 18 categories opened to media practitioners and media houses from both the Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions while the Northern and Eastern regions have six categories each.
“We have limited the new regions to just six categories because this is the first time we are adding them to the competition. However with time, we will open all the other categories to cover them,” he said.
All the nominees for the various categories have been assigned short codes to which their fans would text to, to enable them win the award.