The Best Regional TV Programmes and Skills
CIRCOM Regional is delighted to announce the category winners in the Prix CIRCOM Regional 2025.
The Prix CIRCOM has seen a renaissance in 2025. Entries rose to 220, 40 more than last year, and it is encouraging that new countries and new regional broadcasters have joined the competition. This may be due to a new rule we have introduced. In 2025, for the first time, entries were accepted even if no rights can be made available for broadcast or other transmission by CIRCOM members. This change reflects the increasingly global nature of video creation and production even for regional stations, the increasing complexity of authors and owners of that product, and the increasingly varied means of dividing and exploiting rights in content and distribution. For any entry to be awarded Commended, the rule is unchanged: all rights must be cleared.
Newcomer, Suspilne Ukraine, participated with12 entries. New regional broadcasters include S4C from Wales and MG ALBA from Scotland. Each of them also won respective categories. We are also pleased to see an increase in the number of entries in the Young Onscreen Talent category. This is very encouraging for the future of journalism in regional television stations.
The judging took place from 6th to 10th April in Glasgow, Scotland, hosted by MG ALBA, the Gaelic language channel associated with BBC Scotland.The programmes were watched and judged by a jury of 15 judges from 15 European countries, regional broadcasters that are members of the CIRCOM Regional family.
The full Jury Report detailing comments from the judges on all of the entries and the President's Report on the competition can be found HERE.
The winner of the Grand Prix will be announced at a gala award ceremony at the CIRCOM Annual Conference in Barcelona, 22 May 2025, an event hosted by 3Cat, Catalonia, Spain. It was selected by the judges from the winning entries in the programme genre categories. It is, in effect, The Best of The Best.
The list of category winners and commended is:
DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA
sponsor ORF Austria
Winner:
Raisa (Raisa), Yle, Finland
Commended:
I explain you (Te lo explico), Canal Extremadura, Spain
DIVERSITY IN SOCIETY
sponsor France Télévisions
Winner:
Sirens of Dieppe (Les Sirènes de Dieppe), France 3 Normandie, France
Commended:
Inside the Protests, RTÉ, Ireland
DOCUMENTARY
sponsor RTÉ Ireland
Winner:
Lucky lobster (Lucky lobster), Omroep Zeeland, The Netherlands
Commended:
Agony (Bol), RTS, Serbia
ENTERTAINMENT AND DRAMA
sponsors RTP Portugal and TVG Galicia
Winner:
The Island (An t-Eilean), MG ALBA, Scotland
Commended:
Far From the City, Close to a Dream (Der ingen skulle tru at nokon kunne bu - ep1 Kroken – part 1 and ep2 Kroken – part 2), NRK Vestland, Norway
INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
sponsor Council of Europe
Winner:
Call Sign 'Batman': Secret of Vasylivka Checkpoint (Позивний Бетмен: таємниця Василівського блокпоста), Suspilne Kyiv, Ukraine
Commended:
What next for mining's legacy, BBC Yorkshire, UK
MOST ORIGINAL AND INNOVATIVE
sponsor NRK Norway
Winner:
Rob Burrow Seven Meets, BBC Yorkshire, UK
Commended:
AI Adrian to the Rescue (Teuvo Tekoäly pelastaa Pyhännän), Yle, Finland
MUSIC AND ARTS
sponsor TG4 Ireland
Winner:
Pompei, The new discoveries – Speciale Meraviglie with Alberto Angela (Pompei, Le Nuove Scoperte - con Alberto Angela), RAI - Sede Regionale Campania, Italy
Commended:
Anatolich’s Orchestra (Грає оркестр Анатоліча), Suspilne Chernihiv, Ukraine
NEWS PROGRAMME
sponsor RPO The Netherlands
Winner:
News (Aktualności), TVP3 Rzeszów, Poland
Commended:
South Today GenZ, BBC South (Southampton), UK
NEWS REPORT
sponsor EITB Basque Country, Spain
Winner:
Dads vs Knives, BBC South-East (Tunbridge Wells), UK
Commended:
Gina Tricot Forest (Ginaskogen), SVT Väst, Sweden
VIDEO JOURNALISM
sponsor BBC UK
Winner:
James Vincent, BBC Yorkshire, UK
Commended:
Eirik Haukenes, NRK Møre og Romsdal, Norway
YOUNG ONSCREEN TALENT
sponsor TVR Romania
Winner:
Nest Jenkins, S4C, Wales
There is no Commended in this category
The Judges were:
Mariangela Borneo (RAI, Italy), Paulina Ibek (TVP Kraków, Poland), Ben Moore (BBC South East, UK), Claudia Schubert (ORF, Landestudio Niederösterreich, Austria), Bill MacLeod (MG Alba, Scotland), Marina Ramos (RTP, Portugal), Péter Keresztes (TVR Timisoara, Romania), Anne-Catherine Nanopoulos (France 3 Alsace, France), Gorka Garcia (EITB, Basque Country, Spain), Monica Falao Pettersen (NRK Sápmi, Norway), Valery Marinov (BNT, Bulgaria), Máire Uí Coisdealbha (TG4, Ireland), Aki Karjalainen (Yle, Finland), Annet Huisman (Omrop Fryslân, The Netherlands) and Darko Flajpan (HRT Zagreb, Croatia).
