RTA bike video recognized with Telly Award

Sept. 11, 2014
The Greater Dayton RTA video, “Rack and Roll,” has been awarded a bronze Telly Award for outstanding achievement in the How-To/Instructional category.

The Greater Dayton RTA video, “Rack and Roll,” has been awarded a bronze Telly Award for outstanding achievement in the How-To/Instructional category. Telly winners are chosen from more than 11,000 entries from all 50 states and several countries.

The Rack and Roll video, which depicts how to use a bicycle on RTA buses, was produced for RTA by DH Productions, a Dayton video company operated by Rick Davis. The video can be viewed online at i-riderta.org under “Riding RTA,” “Bikes on RTA.” Both DH Productions and RTA received a 4½ pound bronze statuette, produced by the same company that makes the Oscar and Emmy award statuettes, Davis said.

Founded in 1979, the Telly Awards honor outstanding local, regional, and cable TV commercials and programs, the finest video and film productions, and web commercials, videos and films. Winners represent the best work of the most respected advertising agencies, production companies, television stations, cable operators, and corporate video departments in the world. This year marks the 32nd annual Telly award competition.

Winners include companies, agencies and organizations of all sizes, from large multinational media companies to small ad agencies and local production houses. A sample of past Telly winners includes the Discovery Channel, Harpo Studios, Hasbro and Hewlett-Packard.