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ESPN and Fox lead the league as nominations for the 41st annual Sports Emmy Awards were unveiled today by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The Sports Emmys ceremony originally was for April 28 in Manhattan but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. NATAS has said the awards will be handed…

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Thursday that its 47th annual Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony set for June in Pasadena has been canceled. "Given our concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, we have decided that we will not be staging the 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Pasadena this coming June,&#8221…

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Friday that it is postponing the 41st annual Sports Emmy Awards and 71st annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards dinner, both of which had been scheduled for April. The organization said it will look to move both events to a later date this year, and comes as…

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The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) is all set to open the doors for entries for the 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards as well as "What's New In Daytime” on October 31 — but they are making some changes. As gender identity becomes an ever-larger part of the conversation about inclusion, representat…

The Daytime Emmy Awards is adding another night for 2020. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said today that next year’s celebration of all things daytime TV will be divided into three soirees: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 12-14, all at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. “We are thrilled to add a…

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the longtime organizer of the Daytime Emmy Awards, the News & Documentary Emmys, Sports Emmys and International Emmys, has taken the wraps off a new logo and branding campaign. “The Emmy Awards are stronger than ever, with new distribution platforms driving…

Linda Giannecchini, who worked for the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for five decades, died at home on June 11th in San Francisco, CA of natural causes. She was 70 years old. Giannecchini held nearly every elective office in NATAS, serving as a chapter president, governor, vice chair and secretary of…

Chad Hurley and Steven Shih Chen, two former PayPal colleagues who co-founded YouTube in 2005, were once so reviled in traditional-media circles that their company elicited a billion-dollar lawsuit by Viacom. Today, they were named as recipients of Emmy Awards for Lifetime Achievement. The entrepreneurs, who founded…

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) announced the Digital Drama Series Pre-Nominations for the 46th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. The Pre-Nominated Digital Drama Series were decided by an online judging ballot containing all entrants in the category. The ballots were sent to all registered…

The organization behind the International, Daytime, Sports and News/Documentary Emmy Awards has a new leader. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said today that Adam Sharp, whose career includes stints at NBC, C-SPAN and Twitter, has been named as its new President and CEO. Sharp, who has been working…

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has responded to the threat by all four daytime dramas to boycott the Daytime Emmy Awards unless changes are made in a joint letter they sent to the organization’s leadership yesterday. “Today I received correspondence raising concerns about some elements of the…