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TheBuzz Erika Engle |
No baloney for
Maloney, just a nice
automotive award"Ohana Road," a 7-month-old locally produced television show, has won an award from the International Automotive Media Association.
Executive Producer Bill Maloney just flew back from the ceremonies in New York City, and boy are his arms tired.
A gold medallion award for best automotive entertainment TV show was presented to Maloney's Motorsports TV Productions and Cutter Family Auto Centers, the show's title sponsor, by Indy 500 winner Danny Sullivan.
"It was fun and expensive to go back there and get a piece of hardware, but there aren't that many of them around the island," Maloney said.
COURTESY OF PRWORKS
Indy 500 winner Danny Sullivan, left, presents a gold medallion award to "Ohana Road" Executive Producer Bill Maloney. The International Automotive Media Awards were presented last week at Sardi's restaurant in New York City.
The awards recognize excellence in automotive coverage in newspapers, magazines, radio and television programs and several other categories.
A who's who of the automotive press was at Sardi's for the occasion.
"We were in pretty good company," Maloney said.
"Ohana Road" is a five-segment show hosted by Dale Payson and Jenn Boneza. It features profiles of currently produced cars, concept cars, celebrity interviews by car wax king Barry Meguiar, and by biker and comic Andy Bumatai, and ends with a commentary called, "A Bunch of Maloney." The show airs at 6 p.m. Saturdays on KITV.
For a state with a relatively small population, Hawaii has at least three locally produced automotive shows.
Ed Kemper, automotive writer for the Star-Bulletin's Island Driver section, hosts "Island Driver TV" on Oceanic Cable's OC 16. The show airs 12 times a week.
Kemper and Maloney are fellow "gear-heads" and have started a car-nut lunch bunch at the Waikiki Yacht Club at noon the first Tuesday of every month. There's no membership fee and lunch prices are reasonable, "It's five bucks for a burger," Maloney said.
There's never a formal program but at the next meeting, Maloney will unveil video of the winners of the Red Bull energy drink search for potential American Formula One drivers.
The oldest of the local automotive shows is "Punish'Um Motorsports." It has had a regular schedule on Olelo Channel 52 for four years, but now airs on an occasional basis as Executive Producer Tracy Arakaki is concentrating on the show's impending move to commercial television "both locally and nationally."
It has profiled local motorsports events as well as local people who've hit the big time, such as brothers Todd and Scott Okuhara, now mechanics for Team Skoal on the National Hot Rod Association circuit.
"Punish'Um" also has won local and national awards, including Peles, Tellys and WAVE awards, presented for excellence in community-access programming.
Arakaki's drifting and other motorsports-related footage is often seen nationally. It has been used by Speedvision, on ESPN2's RPM and Spike TV's Super2NR TV.
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Erika Engle is a reporter with the Star-Bulletin. Call 529-4302, fax 529-4750 or write to Erika Engle, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 500 Ala Moana Blvd., No. 7-210, Honolulu, HI 96813. She can also be reached at: eengle@starbulletin.com
