UCSD-TV Wins Four Annual Telly Awards for “Breaking Through the Static”

The five-minute program, What Does It Mean To Be Advanced Maternal Age?, considers “advanced maternal age” (AMA) pregnancies, defined as those with mothers whose age is greater than 35 years. The video explains how AMA can impact pregnancy, reviewing risk factors and the steps mothers can take to optimize their health. Produced by UCSD-TV’s Rachel Bradley and featuring Julia Cormano, MD, FACOG, from the maternity team at UC San Diego Health Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, the program was the result of collaboration with UC San Diego Pregnancy & Birth Care and is featured on the Motherhood Channel on UCTV.

The first of UCSD-TV’s three Bronze awards went to E-Cigarettes as a Public Health Problem, an examination of the latest research into personal and public health impacts of e-cigarettes. The 46-minute long program was produced by UCSD-TV’s Rachel Bradley in partnership with the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science. Dean Cheryl Anderson, PhD, hosts the conversation with colleagues John Pierce, PhD, Emeritus Professor for Cancer Prevention in the Health Policy Division of the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, and Dr. Laura Crotty Alexander, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.

A second collaboration with UC San Diego Pregnancy & Birth Care received a Bronze award for Centering Pregnancy. Produced by UCSD-TV’s Rachel Bradley, the program, subtitled Group Prenatal Care and Support for New Parents, features Vanessa Wright, CNM, WHNP-BC, from UC San Diego Midwives, speaking with a group of new mothers who share their experiences with the Centering Pregnancy program at UC San Diego. The program is featured on UCTV’s Motherhood Channel.

The third Bronze Telly was awarded to Honoring the Historic Contributions of Mayer Hall to the Field of Physics, produced by UCSD-TV’s Jay Brown. This short program outlines the American Physical Society’s 2022 designation of UC San Diego's Mayer Hall as a historic site, in recognition of research conducted by physicists Walter Kohn and Lu Jeu Sham on density functional theory. UC San Diego Physics professors Ivan Schuller and Lu Sham are featured.

After nearly three decades of broadcasting success, UCSD-TV believes that enlightenment and entertainment need not be mutually exclusive. To learn more about UCSD-TV, visit ucsd.tv.

The Telly Awards annually showcases the best work created within television and across video, for all screens. In 2023, the 44th Annual Telly Awards season particularly celebrated creative programming that demonstrated ingenuity to break through the static of the ever-increasing ubiquity of video in our lives. UCSD-TV’s one silver and three bronze awards were selected from a record-breaking number of more than 12,000 entries from all 50 United States and 5 continents, judged by a council of over 200 working industry leaders.