In a rare joint interview, Maury McIntyre and Adam Sharp dish on their organizations’ detente: “There’s only Emmy, and we share the same ideals, we share the same missions and we all need to be on the same page in service of that mission, not constantly squabbling.”
Wolf Blitzer and director-producer Barbara Kopple will be this year’s Lifetime Achievement Honorees at the 44th annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Tuesday. Blitzer will receive his honor at the news ceremony Sept. 27, while Kopple’s will be presented at the documentary ceremony Sept. 28. Both ceremonies will take place at the Palladium Times Square in New York City.
Royal Blakeman, a president of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in the 1960s, died Sunday in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 99. Blakeman served as president of the New York chapter of NATAS from 1963-65 and then as the seventh national president of the organization from 1966 to 1968. For a quarter-century, he was general counsel at the Recording Academy, which in 2003 presented him with its Trustees Award.
Game shows, previously awarded in the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Emmy competition, will now be part of the Primetime Emmys beginning in 2023, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and NATAS announced on Wednesday. The news comes on the heels of both organizations announcing a major realignment in December, shifting to genre-based awards rather than time-based awards as part of an effort to ensure the competitions’ continued relevance.
The 73rd annual awards will be presented in partnership with NAB in Las Vegas on April 25. The event will be hosted by CBS Sunday Morning journalist David Pogue and feature Rich Little.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has announced the recipients of the 73rd Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards. The ceremony will take place April 25 at the Wynn Encore Ballroom in Las Vegas during the NAB Show (April 23-27).
Exclusives
Jim Stimson, assistant news director of Hearst-owned NBC affiliate KCRA Sacramento, Calif., has been chosen to receive a Governors’ Citation from the San Francisco/Northern California Chapter of the National Academy […]
On Sunday, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences unveiled the winners in the Digital Dramas category for the 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards via a virtual livestream ceremony hosted by Jai Rodriguez from the original Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. As the first virtual ceremony for the Daytime Emmys, Rodriguez hosted from a studio in Burbank adhering social distancing production protocols while the nominees waited to hear the winners virtually.
WCVB’s ‘Chronicle’ Team Inducted Into TV History
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has released a “transparency report” for the recently concluded 46th Daytime Emmys, revealing five separate judging irregularities and four nomination challenges — and how they handled each dispute.
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences — the East Coast counterpart to the Los Angeles-based Television Academy — is shuffling its leadership, which includes switching who oversees production of its most visible event, the Daytime Emmy Awards.
Winners of the 38th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards were announced Thursday night by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at a ceremony in New York City. Legendary anchor Charles Osgood was honored for his almost 50 years in radio and television, including his many years hosting, CBS Sunday Morning. In addition, there was a special tribute honoring the 50th anniversary of the CBS’s 60 Minutes.
Among this year’s honorees are the teams behind a voice-navigation system for TV content, a video-conferencing service, video ID tech and a 3D Doppler radar system. In addition, Robert Ross, SVP, CBS Engineering, and Richard Friedel, EVP, Fox Engineering, will receive Technology & Engineering Lifetime Achievement Awards on April 8 in Las Vegas.
As if huge ratings and lasting memories for the 2016 World Series weren’t enough for Fox, the network, cable sibling FS1 and Fox Sports Media Group on Tuesday night scored the most wins at the 38th annual Sports Emmys.
Harry Friedman: He’s Got Games
Harry Friedman (right) is the executive producer of two of the most enduring and successful syndicated programs of all time: Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. He is one of television’s most prolific producers, and his success is marked by his ability to maintain the traditions of both long-running shows while tweaking each just enough to keep them current and on the cutting edge. He will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on April 28 at the Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
Mary Hart: A Daytime TV Career With Legs
Mary Hart, the former longtime host of Entertainment Tonight, will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on Sunday, April 30, at the 44th Daytime Emmy Awards. Here’s look at her impressive run as a host on the first and still No.1 syndicated entertainment news magazine.
NATAS Hands Out Technical Emmys
WCVB’S Karen Holmes Ward Honored
NAB, RTDNA and NATAS are accepting online and offline contributions to support the families of the two WDBJ Roanoke, Va., journalists killed in August. Those wishing to contribute to the Alison & Adam Memorial Fund can do so at http://www.nab.org/donate.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences today announced the recipients of the 67th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards that will take place on Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. This event marks the 10th consecutive year that the Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards have been presented during CES.
RTDNA the NAB and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences hav joined forces to launch a memorial fund to support the families of the victims in Wednesday’s shooting of a Roanoke, Va., news crew. The three organizations will contribute to and accept donations from broadcasters for the fund on behalf of Alison Parker and Adam Ward. Donations will be accepted through Nov. 1, and $40,000 has already been pledged.
WYFF’s Cogdill Honored With NATAS Silver Circle
Michael Cogdill, anchor at Hearst’s NBC affiliate WYFF Greenville-Spartanburg, S.x. (DMA 37), has been named to the Silver Circle of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), Southeast […]
Nominations for the 36th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards were announced today by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. PBS was the leader with 57, followed by CBS (44), ABC (17), NBC (14) and CNN (10). MSNBC and Fusion picked up two nominations each. The News & Documentary Emmy Awards will be presented on Sept. 28 in New York.
Former CBS and Leo Burnett Worldwide exec Bob Mauro has been named president of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the New York-based group that administers Emmy awards that fall outside the primetime scope of the West Coast-based Television Academy. Top of Mauro’s list is likely to be landing a new TV deal for the annual Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony, which wound up airing only as a webcast this past June.
Tech Emmy Awards Go Over The Top
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences unveiled nominations for the 35th annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards.Regional nominees are WTHR, WFAA, WISN, KXTX, WNBC, KING, KNXV and KXAS. PBS led networks with 43 nominations followed by CBS with 42. The awards will be presented Sept. 30 during a ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall at New York’s Lincoln Center.
William J. Small, the CBS News Washington Bureau chief from 1962 to 1974, and later president of NBC News, president of United Press International, dean of Fordham’s Graduate School of Business and chairman of news and documentary at the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, will receive the Lifetime Achievement award at the 35th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards on Sept. 30.
NBC Sports Group won six awards at Tuesday’s ceremony in New York City, while Fox, HBO Sports and the MLB Network took home five awards each. Ted Turner receives the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will present its 64th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards on Jan. 10, 2013, in Las Vegas during the annual Consumer Electronics Show. Among the winners are Grass Valley, Harmonic, Motorola, Cisco, SeaChange, Sony, Apple, Cablevision, Canon HBO, MTV Networks, Wegener, Time Warner Cable, Warner Bros. and CBS Worldwide Distribution
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced that Byron Allen, host of Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen and CEO of Entertainment Studios, will be the host of […]
The awards, which aired on CBS for the past two years, will move from broadcast to cable for the first time on June 23.
NBC O&O WMAQ Chicago’s 10 p.m. newscast won for Outstanding Regional News Story for its coverage of the Burr Oak Cemetery scandal. Denver McGraw-Hill’s ABC affiliate KMGH Denver won the Emmy for Outstanding Regional News Story in the investigative reporting category. The awards were handed out by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Some of TV’s top stars aren’t just nominated for Emmy Awards; they’re going to help present them. The television academy says Emmy nominees Amy Poehler, Will […]
