Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Highlights from the 2011 Gracie Awards

The Awards Show is produced by the Alliance for Women in Media and the Gracie Award winners were honored in a star-studded gala hosted by Emmy® Award-winning actress Patricia Heaton. 


The Gracie Awards (also known as “the Gracies”) recognize exemplary programming created for women, by women, and about women in all facets of media, including radio, television, cable and new media. The awards program also encourages the realistic and multifaceted portrayal of women in entertainment, news, features and other programs.

To view my scrapbook from the evening, 
click on the image below.


The black-tie Gala attracted the best and brightest in the field, NBC Today Show’s Meredith Vieira, Access Hollywood’s Maria Menounos; Model & Activist Christy Turlington Burns; ESPN’s Erin Andrews; NBC Community’s Yvette Nicole Brown; Fox Sports Radio’s Deb Carson; ABC Family Pretty Little Liars’ Lucy Hale; Lifetime Army Wives’ Kim Delaney; Actress, author, activist Morgan Fairchild; Olympic champion Peggy Fleming; E! Chelsea Lately’s Chelsea Handler; NPR’s Julie McCarthy; CBS Rules of Engagement’s Megyn Price; E!’s Giuliana Rancic; CBS The Talk’s Holly Robinson-Peete, and more.













The Gracies Gala will air on the Hallmark Movie Channel on August 8, 2011, during prime time, then again as a daytime encore on August 12. “Alliance for Women in Media is thrilled that, for the first time, the Gracies Gala will be televised to a national audience,” said AWM Chair Valerie K. Blackburn. “It is especially exciting to be shown on the Hallmark Movie Channel because of their commitment to high quality programming that shows realistic portrayals of strong women.”