Prix CIRCOM Regional honours the best regional productions with cash and other awards of more than 40,000 euros. Entries for the most important international awards for regional programmes, free to all member stations of CIRCOM Regional, were open from 16 December 2024 till 14 March 2025.
Each regional station could enter in 11 content and skill categories: once in Digital Multimedia, Diversity in Society, Documentary, Entertainment and Drama, Investigative Journalism, Most Original and Innovative, Music and Arts, News Programme, and twice in, News Report, Video Journalism, Young Onscreen Talent.
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 means the Prix can be assured it attracts the very best productions and promotes the quality and range of public service video creation in the regions.
There are only two restrictions:
1. No cash award will be made to any winning entry for which rights cannot be wholly cleared. The cash value of the programme entry is assumed to have been exploited by the sale of rights already.
2. Every entry which is selected as Commended needs to be free of rights. This allows the selection of the Commended to focus on content which has not been fully commercially exploited, and probably with larger budgets and by larger stations.
In the News Programme Category broadcasters should have entered News Programme only of Wednesday 12 February 2025. This rule has proven successful in Prix CIRCOM 2024.
:: Prix CIRCOM 2024 Rules of Entry ::
:: Freequently asked questions ::
The judging for the Prix CIRCOM 2025 will take place from 6th April, in Glasgow, Scotland.
14 judges will be hosted by the MG Alba.
Categories and sponsors in 2025 are:
TVP Poland, sponsor of Grand Prix
ORF Austria, sponsor of Digital Multimedia
RTÉ Ireland, sponsor of Documentary
France Télévisions, sponsor of Diversity in Society
RTP Portugal and TVG Galicia, sponsors of Entertainment and Drama
Council of Europe, sponsor of Investigative Journalism
NRK Norway, sponsor of Most Original and Innovative
TG4 Ireland, sponsor of Music and Arts
RPO The Netherlands, sponsor of News Programme
EITB Basque Country, Spain, sponsor of News Report
BBC UK, sponsor of Video Journalism
TVR Romania, sponsor of Young Onscreen Talent
The winner of the Grand Prix – best of the best from the winning entries in the programme genre categories - will be announced at a Gala award ceremony at the CIRCOM Annual Conference in Barcelona, 22 May 2025, an event hosted by CCMA Catalonia, Spain.
Watch the webinar with Prix judges and previous winners giving insights into how to win the Prix CIRCOM, held on 6th February 2025.