Pakistan Media Awards

Pakistan Media Awards
4th Pakistan Media Awards
An Pakistan Media Award statuette
Awarded for	Excellence in Radio, TV, film and theatre achievements
Country	Pakistan
First awarded	2010
Official website	www.pkistanmediaaward.com

The Pakistan Media Awards, commonly known as The PMA, are a set of awards given annually for excellence in radio, TV, film and theatre achievements. The award is a statuette representing a knight having star on chest and officially named as a Pakistan Media Award of Merit and is one of cinematic awards of Pakistan. The awards are given each year at a formal ceremony. The awards gained a huge attention in 2011 and initiated as awards "of merit for distinctive achievement" in the industry.

The awards were first given in 2010 at a ceremony created for awards, at Karachi Carlton Hotel. Over a year the ceremony garnered great attention due to the wide range of categories they presents for awarding, currently PMAS are given in more than a dozen categories, and includes film, TV programs, radio and theatre plays of various types. PMA is one of the most prominent ceremony of Pakistan, Pakistan Media Awards televised recorded in more than seven countries. PMA is first of its kind of awards that focuses on media achievements including all the occupations comes under media, In television category awards are awarded in talk shows, News channel, reality programs, dramas, sitcoms, daily soaps and in fashion industry, while awards also acknowledged the efforts of artist in films, radio and specially PMA endeavor to revive theatre industry through this platform.

The 3rd Pakistan Media Awards were held on 30 November 2012 at Expo Centre in Karachi, Sindh. Previously the 4th Pakistan Media Awards were scheduled on December 28, 2013 but due to overwhelming amounts of online votings and on persistent requests of voters, the ceremony was rescheduled for 11 January 2014 at Expo Center, Karachi.