Al-Jazeera English was named Best News Channel at the second annual Freesat Awards held in London
The news channel beat the BBC News channel, Bloomberg, CNN and BBC Radio 5 Live to the accolade.
Best Entertainment Channel went to E4 ahead of BBC HD, BBC Three and ITV2, while ‘Best Music Channel’ was given to urban music network Flava.
Food Network UK was a very popular choice as Best Lifestyle Channel, and the Horror Channel took home the accolade for Best Themed Channel.
BBC Cbeebies won the Best Children’s Channel competing against CBBC, along with Kix and Milkshake.
Best Shopping Channel was awarded to QVC, while the Judges’ Special Award went to ITV1 HD.
In the viewer-voted categories, shopping channel Ideal World was named TV Channel Of The Year and Planet Rock scooped Radio Station Of The Year.
Freesat managing director Emma Scott commented:
“I’d like to congratulate all the winners honoured for their massive contribution to Freesat’s continued success,”
“We”re proud to celebrate the original, high quality programming that keeps our audience entertained and informed and we look forward to bringing viewers even more exciting channels and services in the future.”