Science & Technology

Webby Awards Presentation to be Webcast Live July 19th

PRNewswire - May 29th, 2001

Giving fans around the globe a front row seat to the Internet's biggest night of the year, ABCNews.com will host the live Webcast of The 5th Annual Webby Awards to be held on Wednesday, July 19th (July 18th in the US), at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House.

The Webcast will kick-off with the Webby pre-show, which will be hosted by ABC frontman Sam Donaldson. Donaldson will also present an award at this year's event. The live Webcast will begin at 12:00PM AEST at http://www.abcnews.com.

"The Webby Awards have become the event for the who's who of the Internet community," said Donaldson. "I am pleased to be with the people who have successfully taken advantage of all that the World Wide Web and new technologies offer us. I wouldn't be here if I didn't feel so strongly that the Webbys represent the future."

Hailed as "The 'It' Award" by Vanity Fair and "The Hot Ticket" by Entertainment Weekly, The Webby Awards are the leading international honors for Web sites and individual achievement in creativity and technology. More than 3,000 technology luminaries and leaders in an array of traditional fields will attend the Webbys, which has become a major international event thanks to its critically acclaimed production, outrageous fashions, five-words-or-less speech limit, and celebrity judges. Past judges have included David Bowie, Tina Brown, Matt Groening, and Larry Ellison. The awards are presented by the Academy, a 350-member organization dedicated to the creative, professional, and technical advancement of new media.