We’re not in this business for the awards, but we still enjoy winning them. And, on April 19th, the Nightly Business Report team enjoyed winning three “Remi” awards at the 2008 WorldFest/Houston International Film Festival. This win marked the 8th year in a row NBR left WorldFest with several Remi awards.

If you’re wondering which specific NBR programs and segments were honored, here’s the list:

• The new edition of NBR’s classic home video How Wall Street Works won a Special Jury Award. That’s the second-highest award in the Festival and the top award in its category, Education/Instruction -- Adult.
• The series “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Earnings” won a Gold Remi Award in the category Analysis/Background of a Single Current News Story. Congratulations to correspondent Suzanne Pratt and her support team in the NBR New York bureau, who worked hard to put this series together.
• NBR’s special Coverage of the 2007 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting won a Silver Remi Award in the Single Breaking News Story category. Congratulations to anchor Susie Gharib and photojournalist Mike Malanga for bringing us inside this event – the rock concert of annual meetings.

WorldFest/Houston is the third-longest running independent film festival in the country. Of the 4500 general entries in this year’s competition, only 15% won Remi awards. NBR’s success rate was much better -- 100%. We entered three reports, and those three reports won.