All eyes will be on the nominees in the 18 categories of the ITV Awards on Tuesday the 14th

With 18 categories, the twenty-seventh edition of the ITV Awardsrecognizing the best of national television and digital media, it will be held Tuesday, November 14, from 8 p.m. at the Teatro Centro de Arte. From that place will be broadcast live on the Institute’s official website Higher University (ITV) for the general public.

Among the local faces who will meet at the gala are Virginia Limongi, Michela Pincay, Logan y Logan, Viviana Salame, Cecilia Cascantewho will sit next to the other nominees and the audience.

Although the price categories have been adapted in recent years to new communication platforms, such as social networks and digital media, Alfredo Adum, director of ITVis very clear about who the “Meryl Streep” of these awards is: Don Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros.

“He has won in several categories, including as a driver of Who wants to be a millionaire? He has also won his career as an interviewer and as a news anchor. For me he is the most iconic character we have in the formal part of communication.”

This also applies to the comedy duo of Flor María Palomeque and David Reinoso She is one of the few – in the history of the ITV Awards – to receive a gold trophy for winning for ten consecutive years. The program The commentatorsby Radio Caravanalso has a golden MOT.

Other highly awarded names in the history of the awards include Gabriela Pazmiño, Johathan Estrada, Frank Palomeque and Carlos Vera.

“The media has changed, but At its core it is still audiovisual communication, and we have adapted to the languages ​​and methodologies what each of these facets of the media calls for, also in terms of the academic careers we have developed (…). So, The awards have evolved hand in hand with the media and a symbiosis is emerging between the nominees because for example Radios can now be considered as digital media for information or sports.. “They are the new categories.”

And for those who want to qualify next year: It is possible to nominate yourself. If you think you have the track record and merits, you can nominate yourself (within the set deadline), but It is the audience that observes and judges the preliminary candidates.

“Sometimes they become something like this 100 names and then the public votes provisionally. At closing We already have the official nominees in the first voting round”.

Until this Monday, November 13, in the morning, The total number of votes was already more than 900,000; and, for the day of premation, Adum predicts more than a million. Everyone can register to vote only once.