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RT anchor wins TV award

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Published 25 September, 2008, 15:08

RT's very own Kevin Owen has been awarded Russia's most prestigious TV gong as best news anchor. The TEFI national award has been given to best TV programmes and personalities since 1994.

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Kevin Owen has been working for RT since 2006.

During the past two years on RT, Kevin has covered such remarkable events as the G8 summit in St. Petersburg and the Russian presidential elections.

Before coming to RT, he made his name presenting in the UK for Sky News and BBC Wales.

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