TIGER MEDIA Network (TMN), the official broadcasting arm of UST, brought home five awards at the 85th Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS) College Media Conference held from March 7 to 8 in New York City.
Tiger Radio, one of the two divisions of TMN, won Best Variety Program in the video category for “Tiger Decodes Onboarding Week Special,” a production introducing the University to incoming freshmen.
Meanwhile, TMN’s television division, Tiger TV, won Best Use of Graphics Award for its coverage of the 2024 Thomasian Welcome Walk, UST’s annual onboarding activity marked by first-year students entering the Arch of the Centuries.
Asst. Prof. Faye Abugan, TMN’s adviser and business manager, said the awards showed that the quality of work TMN volunteers produce was at par with international standards.
“Seeing what other college radios are doing keeps us on our toes, pushing us to continuously improve. At the same time, we share what we’ve learned, fostering a culture of mutual learning and growth in the college radio community,” Abugan told the Varsitarian.
“We don’t just think of ideas — we execute them,” she added.
TMN competed against other campus stations of American schools, including Five Towns College, John Carroll University, Marshall University, and S.I Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University.
Three TMN volunteers reaped individual awards at the IBS conference.
Ma. Andrea Mendoza won Best Social Media Director for TV, while communication arts junior Joshua Galvez and industrial engineering senior Sophia Lacson were named Best Promotional Director and Best Business Director, respectively.
Abugan said innovation and adaptability were key to the TMN’s continued success.
“What people often forget is that while Tiger Media Network has only been around for six years, the system behind it started 25 years ago with the establishment of Tomasian Cable Television,” she said.
“Our students may come and go, but the people behind our broadcast platforms have spent more than two decades building a system, perfecting our practices, learning from our mistakes, and improving on what previous batches have done.”
TMN has been recognized at the IBS since 2020. Last year, it also bagged five awards in the international tilt.
Founded in 1940, IBS is the oldest collegiate broadcasting station in the US that organizes the annual IBS Media Awards multimedia conference.
