Sputnik Mania Wins IDA ABCNEWS VideoSource Award

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

Sputnik Mania, a documentary on the early days of the space race (triggered by the Soviet Union's launch of the first satellite, Sputnik), won the IDA ABCNEWS VideoSource Award.

The award, given out annually since 1997, is for best use of footage and is sponsored by IDA and ABCNEWS VideoSource, the network news operation's licensing arm for news and stock footage.

The film is from David Hoffman (Moonshot, Making Sense of the Sixties).

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.