Family Television Awards Honor Nine for Family Friendly Programming

Family Television Awards Honor Nine for Family Friendly Programming

Programs 'Everybody Hates Chris,' 'Numb3rs,' 'Dancing with the Stars,' 'Ugly Betty,' 'High School Musical,' 'The Ron Clark Story' Recognized and stars Tony Shalhoub, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Howie Mandel Honored

Awards ceremony to air on The CW Network December 12, 2006 at 9 p.m. EST

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Nov 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Eighth Annual Family Television Awards was held Nov. 29 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and recognized honorees in nine categories for their contributions to outstanding family entertainment. The show will be televised on The CW Network on Tuesday, Dec. 12 from 9 p.m - 10 p.m. with Stephen Collins and Haylie Duff of 7th Heaven co-hosting.

The Family Television Awards are the only awards recognizing outstanding programming for family viewing. The awards are given by the members of the Family Friendly Programming Forum and selected by the members of the Association of National Advertisers. The 40+ major national advertisers that participate in the Forum are taking positive steps to increase family friendly programming choices on primetime television. Their mission is to support and promote the development of "family friendly" television across all programming genres between the hours of 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., when adults and children are most likely to watch television together.

2006 Family Television Award honorees include:

Drama: "Numb3rs" (CBS)
Comedy: "Everybody Hates Chris" (The CW)
Reality: "Dancing with the Stars" (ABC)
Reality/Game Show Host: Howie Mandel "Deal or No Deal" (NBC)
New Series: "Ugly Betty" (ABC)
Actor: Tony Shalhoub "Monk" (USA)
Actress: Jennifer Love Hewitt "Ghost Whisperer" (CBS)
TV Movie/Drama: "The Ron Clark Story" (TNT)
TV Movie/Musical: "High School Musical" (Disney Channel)

The Family Television Awards Show is being produced by dick clark productions for the seventh consecutive year. Allen Shapiro and Barry Adelman are the executive producers, and R.A. Clark is the producer.

"Our mission is to support and promote the development of 'family friendly' television across all programming genres during the primetime hours when children and adults are most likely to watch television together. Working with our network partners, in eight short years we have achieved our goal of ensuring that there is always at least one show that families can watch during primetime every night of the week," said Kaki Hinton, co-chair of the Family Friendly Programming Forum and vice president, advertising services, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare.

Stars appearing on the Awards program on December 12th include: Emily Procter (CSI Miami); America Ferrera (Ugly Betty); Jennifer Love Hewitt and Camryn Manheim (Ghost Whisperer); Howie Mandel (Deal or No Deal); Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz and Judd Hirsch (Numb3rs); George Lopez, Constance Marie (The George Lopez Show); Angus T. Jones (Two And a Half Men); Drew Lachey and Emmitt Smith (Dancing with the Stars); Mark Steines (Entertainment Tonight); Kristen Bell and Enrico Colantoni (Veronica Mars) and Beverley Mitchell (7th Heaven).

Additional information about the Family Television Awards and other initiatives of the Family Friendly Programming Forum can be found at www.ana.net/family.

The Family Friendly Programming Forum comprises the following companies: Allstate Insurance Company, American Family Insurance, BellSouth Corporation, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Campbell Soup Company, Domino's Pizza, Inc., Enterprise-Rent-A-Car Company, FedEx Corporation, Ford Motor Company, General Mills, Inc., General Motors Corporation, GlaxoSmithKline, Hallmark Cards, Inc., H&R Block, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, IBM Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, Kellogg Company, Kraft Foods, Inc., Liberty Mutual Group, Lowe's Companies, Inc., Masterfoods USA, McCormick & Company, Inc., McDonald's Corporation, Merck & Co., Inc., Nestle USA, Novartis Consumer Health, Inc., PepsiCo, Inc., Pfizer Inc, Schering-Plough Corporation, Sears, Roebuck and Co., Sprint Communications, State Farm Insurance Companies, The Coca-Cola Company, The Gillette Company, The Home Depot, Inc., The J.M. Smucker Company, The Procter & Gamble Company, Tyson Foods, Inc., Unilever United States, Inc, Verizon Communications, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Wendy's International, Inc.

The CW Network, which is owned jointly by CBS Corp. and Time Warner, Inc., consists of a six-night, 13-hour primetime lineup including Monday through Friday nights from 8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. (ET/PT); Sundays from 7:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. (ET/PT); Sunday from 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. (ET/PT) outside of prime time as well as a Monday-Friday afternoon block from 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (ET/PT) and a five-hour Saturday morning animation block. Altogether, the network programs 30 hours a week over seven days. For more information, visit www.cwtv.com.

Contact:
Andrea Martone
8th Annual Family Television Awards
Telephone: 516.944.9764
Mobile: 917.929.0527
FamilyTVAwards@optonline.net

Web sites: http://www.ana.net/family
http://www.cwtv.com

Source: Family Friendly Programming Forum

CONTACT: Andrea Martone for the 8th Annual Family Television Awards,
+1-516-944-9764, or mobile +1-917-929-0527, or FamilyTVAwards@optonline.net

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