CUNY TV Wins Most Ever Telly Awards in 2025
CUNY TV is honored to receive a record-breaking twenty Telly Awards. The winners were announced on May 20, 2025, which included the signature CUNY TV series A Slice of New York, Sustainability Matters, LATiNAS, Black America, CUNY TV Presents, CUNY Laureates, Shades of US, Nueva York, Asian American Life, THEATRE: All the Moving Parts, CUNY Forum, Greater Good, and Brown & Black. Wins also went to featured CUNY College Programming – The CUNY Graduate Center Presents and EdCast, as well as films showcased on CUNY TV Presents coming from CUNY’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Macaulay Honors CUNY Film Fest, plus the Chelsea Film Festival, and the NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival.
A full list of the winners and their respective categories is shown below:
Gold
CUNY TV Presents: The Bad Infinity (NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival). General-Experimental Category.
Silver
A Slice of New York: Unique Museums in New York City. General-Museums & Galleries Category.
Sustainability Matters: Pathways to a Greener Future. Series-Sustainability Category.
LATiNAS Season 5. Series-Culture & Lifestyle Category.
Black America: Spike Lee – His Work, Life and Legacy. General-Interview & Talk Show Category.
The CUNY Graduate Center Presents: City of Science – James P. Allison and Padmanee Sharma in Conversation with Lesley Stahl. General-Health & Safety Category.
Bronze
CUNY TV Presents: Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema. General-Education Category.
CUNY Laureates: Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle. Series-Education & Discovery Category.
Shades of US: The Power of Tattoos. General-News & News Feature Category.
Nueva York: Paso del Norte, American-Latinos, Mayan Cuisine in NY. General-Public Interest & Awareness Category.
Asian American Life: Asian American Pacific Islander Month & Profiles In Courage. General-Social Responsibility Category.
LATiNAS: Hip Hop Subway. Series-Culture & Lifestyle Category.
CENTRO Presents: Puerto Rican Voices. Series-Documentary Category.
Brown & Black: Afro-Latinos. General-DEI: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Category.
THEATRE – All the Moving Parts: Tony Award Winning Playwright David Henry Hwang on Asian American Identity on Broadway. General-Interview & Talk Show Category.
CUNY Forum: The Power of Politics – From Local Voices to National Impact. Series-News & Politics Category.
Greater Good: Rethink Food. General-Social Responsibility Category.
CUNY TV Presents: Chelsea Film Festival – CLIMB. General-Drama Category.
CUNY TV Presents: Solëdad (Macaulay Honors CUNY Film Fest). General-Student Category.
Is that Me? The Need for Diverse Voices in Children’s Books (EdCast). General-Education & Training.
CUNY TV is broadcast in the New York metropolitan area on digital Ch. 25.3, and cablecast in the five boroughs of New York City on Ch. 75 (Spectrum and Cablevision/Optimum Brooklyn), Ch. 77 (RCN Cable) and Ch. 30 (Verizon FiOS). The station reaches 7.3 million households in the metro area, and its original programming is archived for a global audience at tv.cuny.edu. Interim Executive Director is Chiqui Cartagena.