Judging Criteria

Entries will be judged by a minimum of six juries, each ideally comprising 5 or more members. The minimum number of judges required to judge each separate category is 3.

No more than 4 representatives from one country may be on the same jury. No standard jury will include more than 2 representatives from one company or station.

The judges reserve the right to request further information about the programme or performer from the nominator. Failure to meet such requests in sufficient detail may result in disqualification.

The judges reserve the right to move any entry to a different entry category if it is judged that such a move is warranted. Entrants will be notified before a category reassignment is made. The judging process will be conducted on-line, and the results will be tabulated and audited by international auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. Judges cannot vote for programmes produced for, or submitted by their company or associated company.

No announcement of the winners will be made in advance of the Awards Ceremony. Short-listed programmes, performers and companies will be announced in early November 2020.

The judges’ decision will be final and binding. Neither the Asian Television Awards organising committee nor the judges will enter into any discussion or correspondence regarding the outcome of any decision.

Terrestrial Channel of the Year, the Cable & Satellite Channel of the Year, Terrestrial Broadcaster of the Year and the Cable & Satellite Network of the Year Awards

Points from the winning entries of the various categories from the Awards will be used to determine the winners of the Terrestrial Channel of the Year Award, the Cable & Satellite Channel of the Year Award, Terrestrial Broadcaster of the Year Award and the Cable & Satellite Network of the Year Award.

(NOTE: the Terrestrial Channel of the Year Award and the Cable & Satellite Channel of the Year Award are for the single terrestrial or cable & satellite channel gaining the most wins or highly commended for programming produced for and aired on that single channel. Whereas, Terrestrial Broadcaster of the Year Award and the Cable & Satellite Network of the Year Award are combination of points for programming wins or highly commended from all channels under the same broadcaster or network.)

For each win in a Programming category (e.g. Best Children’s Programme), the channel will receive 10 points. For each highly commended in a Programming category, the channel will receive 2 points.

For each win in the Performance and Technical & Creative category (e.g. Best Comedy Actor/Actress), the channel will receive half the points awarded for a Programming category win, i.e. a channel that wins in a Performance and Technical & Creative category will get 5 points, and highly commended 1 point.

Only entries submitted directly by broadcasters will be counted towards points for Terrestrial Channel of the Year Award and Cable & Satellite Channel of the Year. Entries submitted by production companies, webcasters or digital companies directly will not count towards Terrestrial Channel of the Year Award, Cable & Satellite Channel of the Year Award, Terrestrial Broadcaster of the Year Award and Cable & Satellite Network of the Year Award totals.

The channel with the highest number of points will be awarded Terrestrial Channel of the Year Award or Cable & Satellite Channel of the Year; the second highest terrestrial channel and cable & satellite channel will both be highly commended.

The broadcaster or network with the highest number of points will be awarded Terrestrial Broadcaster of the Year Award or Cable & Satellite Network of the Year; the second highest terrestrial broadcaster and cable & satellite network will both be highly commended.