How deeply might cooperation grow between the two television academies that until last week were at each other’s throats? The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which hands out the Primetime Emmys, and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, which handles the daytime, news and...
The silly rift that has chopped up the Emmy Awards between two groups may be set to heal, and we urge the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences to accelerate that process. The two bodies split in 1977. Since then ATAS, based on the West Coast...
For television, there seem to be more questions than answers as 2008 comes to a close: How many industry pros will lose their jobs? How long will the recession last? How badly will the advertising market that is TV’s lifeblood falter? Wave after wave of anxiety-provoking headlines don’t help matters...
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Calls are starting to go out for entries for the most coveted awards in the news business—the RTNDA’s Murrows, the George Foster Peabodys, the Society of Professional Journalists Awards, the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ honors, Emmys of all stripes. While the awards remain as prestigious as ever...
The night before the Emmys, I was talking to an industry insider who’s had first-hand experience dealing with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. We were discussing our low expectations for this year’s show when he blurted out an explanation for why the Emmys never get better that was more...
Conan O’Brien can be forgiven for feeling like he’s traveled back in time to 1994 of late. The mid-’90s were the dark ages for the pale red-headed kid from Beantown. He had just taken over NBC’s “Late Night” from David Letterman, and the critical response was not kind. Tom Shales, who sometimes graces...