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About the Artist
Phil Ponder introduced other skyline views of Nashville in 1982, 1986 and 1990. In the last 15 years, nearly fifty of his originals have been reproduced in limited edition prints. The combination of exacting details, bright colors, interesting shapes and varied architectural styling produces a special warmth in the pen and ink/watercolor process utilized by the artist.

STUDENT AWARDS RULEBOOK 2010
STUDENT TELEVISION ENTRY FORM
NATASNEWS
JOB BANK
EMMY AWARDS INFORMATION
EMMY AWARD NOMINATIONS - 24TH ANNUAL
24th EMMY AWARDS PRESS RELEASE
EMMY USAGE-TRADEMARK POLICY
SILVER CIRCLE NOMINATION FORM
MIDSOUTH STUDENT AWARD WINNERS 2009
STUDENT AWARDS RELEASE 2009
SILVER CIRCLE
PUBLICATIONS
SCHOLARSHIPS
23rd MIDSOUTH EMMY® AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED 11/21/08
EMMY AWARD WINNERS - January 26, 2008
EMMY AWARDS PRESS RELEASE for ceremony January 26, 2008
23rd MIDSOUTH EMMY® AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED 1/24/09
23RD EMMY AWARDS PRESS RELEASE
EMMY TELECAST VIDEOSTREAM 2009
MEDSOUTH EMMY PHOTOS FROM 1-24-09
LINKS WE THINK YOU'LL LIKE!
RISING STAR ENTRY FORM


EMMY AWARDS TELECAST ENCORE IN NORTH CAROLINA,

EMMY AWARDS TELECAST ENCORE IN NORTH CAROLINA
Saturday, February 6, 2010
11 PM on UNC-MX Digital Channel
Channel 203 in Raleigh
UNC-MX is seen on Time Warner Cable and additional cable systems in the state.

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EMMY AWARDS TELECAST VIDEOSTREAMED,

VIDEOSTREAMING of 24TH MIDSOUTH EMMMY AWARDS, RECORDED JANUARY 30, 2010
http://mtsutv.org/emmys

TAPE DELAY
UNC NORTH CAROLINA – Dates and times to be announced

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MIDSOUTH EMMY AWARD WINNERS,

24th ANNUAL MIDSOUTH EMMY® AWARDS PRESENTED
Darrell Waltrip Host of Live Emmy® Awards Telecast;
The Freedom Forum Received Governors’ Award

The Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) presented their 24th Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards on Saturday, January 30, at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center/

NASCAR champion Darrell Waltrip hosted the live telecast of the 24th Midsouth Emmy® Awards carried on public television stations in North Carolina and Tennessee. In addition to his spectacular racing career, Darrell played himself in the Will Ferrell movie Talladega Nights, and was the voice of Darrell Cartrip in the hit Pixar movie Cars. For his work as a sports commentator, Darrell was nominated for a national Emmy® Award for Outstanding Sports Personality.

Phillip L. Bell, NATAS National Trustee, inducted two broadcasting veterans into the Silver Circle, which honors quarter-century contributions to television and to their communities. Honored were anchor Sandra Hughes from Greensboro, North Carolina, who has been with WFMY since 1972, and Jerry Hayes, anchor at WHNT in Huntsville, Alabama, who began his career in 1978..

Anne Holt of WKRN Nashville presented the Governors’ Award for lifetime achievement, the academy’s highest honor to the Freedom Forum. The Freedom Forum is a nonpartisan foundation that champions the first amendment as a cornerstone of democracy, and is the main funder of the operations of the Newseum, the First Amendment Center, and their television series, Speaking Freely. The First Amendment Center is housed in the John Seigenthaler Center at Vanderbilt University. The award was accepted By Ken Paulson, President of the Freedom Forum, and Gene Policinski, Vice President, The First Amendment Center

This year’s nominations resulted in74 awards for 30 companies in 68 categories. The ballots, tabulated by Jennifer Lane of Decosimo Vaden, were judged by the Northwest Chapter of NATAS, based in Seattle, Washington.

For further information: Geneva Brignolo, 615-259-0040, emmynash@aol.com

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is a non-profit, professional organization dedicated to fostering excellence in television. The academy has 19 chapters with 15,000 members nationwide. The Nashville/Midsouth Region encompasses the States of North Carolina (except Asheville) and Tennessee, and northern Alabama.

PRODUCING COMPANY / EMMY AWARD(S)
WTVF 14
WHBQ 7
WRAL 7
Running Pony Productions 5
Raycom Sports 4
WCNC 4
The Renaissance Center 3
Bohan Advertising 2
Fox Sports South/Sports South/Fox Sports Carolinas 2
Janet's Planet 2
The Commercial Appeal 2
WKRN 2
WMC 2
WTVI 2
CBC New Media 1
Deja View Media 1
DoubleJay Creative 1
Emulsion Arts/WTVI 1
High Five Entertainment/TNDV 1
Nashville Public Television 1
Strength Readiness Support Center 1
The Tombras Group 1
TNDV Television 1
Vanderbilt University News Service 1
WATE 1
WFMY 1
WGHP 1
Wildacres Leadership Initiative/Minnow Media 1
WSMV 1
WZTV 1

NEWS EXCELLENCE
NewsChannel 5 Network, Michelle Bonnett, Sandra Boonstra, WTVF

NEWSCAST/EVENING
NewsChannel 5 at 10: Good Friday Tornadoes, Rhori Johnston, Sarah Moore, WTVF

NEWSCAST/DAYTIME
News 2 at 4, Karen Brown, John Dwyer, Anne Holt, Neil Orne, Melissa Penry, Matthew Zelkind, Alison Coe, WKRN

NEWSCAST/WEEKEND
NewsChannel 5 at 10, W. Clayton Farrar, WTVF

SPOT NEWS
Nursing Home Tragedy, Dan Bowens, Christine Bowley, Sloane Heffernan, Ken Smith, Martha Woodward, WRAL

BREAKING NEWS
Officer Shot, Michelle Bonnett, Lacey Strader, Rachel Ward, Vicki Yates, WTVF

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORT - WITHIN 24 HRS
The Last Day of Nancy Reynolds School, Chad Tucker, WGHP

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORT
A Lost Call for Justice, Ben Hall, Iain Montgomery, Kevin Wisniewski, WTVF

CONTINUING COVERAGE - WITHIN 24 HRS
News 2-The Good Friday Tornado, Bartt Baird, Karen Brown, Alison Coe, Erica Simmons, Matthew Zelkind, WKRN

CONTINUING COVERAGE - TIE
What's the Deal in Jennette? , Alistair Clark, Eric King, Michael Moore, WHBQ
WRAL.com, Jodi Glusco, CBC New Media

SERIOUS FEATURE NEWS REPORT
Her Blood on HIs Hands, Andy Benton, Stuart Watson, WCNC

SERIOUS EEATURE NEWS SERIES
Ann's Story, Dan Robbins, Ann Sheridan, WCNC

LIGHT FEATURE NEWS REPORT
Pizza Rocker Dude, Derric Curran, Tom Dees, WHBQ

LIGHT FEATURE NEWS SERIES
Celebrate The Smokies, Kristin Farley, Ben Williams, WATE

INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: General Sessions Court, Bryan Staples, Phil Williams, Kevin Wisniewski, WTVF

BUSINESS/CONSUMER REPORT
Tough Cell Phone, Tanya Rivera, Alan Wagmeister, WFMY

SPECIALTY ASSIGNMENT REPORT
Textecution, Michael Hamlet, Nick Kenney, WMC

JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE - WITHIN 24 HRS
Sick Firefighter, Amanda Hara, Nathan C. Sharkey, WTVF

JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE
Phil Williams Investigates, Bryan Staples, Phil Williams, WTVF

NEWS SPECIAL
Presidential Debate 2008: At the Crossroads, Tammy Phillips, WMC

SPORTSCAST
Indy Car Errands and Dr. Big Time, David Foster, Paul H. Jones, WZTV

SPORTS SEGMENT
Cameron Crazies, Jeremy Williams, Raycom Sports

SPORTS PROGRAMS
Football Saturdays in the South, David Barringer, Alex Farmartino, Robert Reichley, Beverly Rumley, Lance Stewart, Jeremy Williams, RaycomSports

SPORTS EVENT/GAME
Hurricanes NHL Playoffs Game 7, Rohan Backfisch, Erik Barnhart, Hammond Reynolds, FOX Sports Carolinas

WEATHERCAST
StormChaser, John Wendel, WCNC

WEATHER - CONTINUING COVERAGE
Good Friday Tornadoes, Lisa Spencer, WSMV

DOCUMENTARY – CULTURAL - TIE
$5 Cover Amplified: Ben Nichols and Valerie June, Alan Spearman, The Commercial Appeal
Hometown Stories: The Greek Americans of Charlotte, Linda Midgett Otzenberger, WTVI

DOCUMENTARY – HISTORICAL
I Am a Man, Jonathan D. Epstein, Ryan Goble, John Hubbell, Deanie Parker, Calvin Taylor, Running Pony Productions/Old Bridge Media/Memphis Tourism Foundation

DOCUMENTARY – TOPICAL
Coming Out-- Coming In: Faith, Identity and Belonging, Donna Campbell, Georgann Eubanks, Rev. Laurie Hays Coffman, Wildacres Leadership Initiative/Minnow Media

HISTORIC/CULTURAL PROGRAM
Next Door Neighbors: Somali, Suzy Hence, Will Pedigo, Nashville Public Television

ARTS
Tennessee Shines Episode 6, Larsen Jay, Michael Twardy, Brandon Ward, DoubleJay Creative

ENTERTAINMENT – TIE
I Won't Let My Guard Down, Matt Barker, Jim Boyd, Jonathan Britt, Derek Darmstaedter, Brent Dowdell, Joel Evans, Jonathan Howard, Mark JJames, Perry Jenkins, Darby Ledbetter, Scott Matthews, William Miller, Sean Mullen, Alan Pfeil, Lee Phipps, Strength Readiness Support Center
Levon Helm: Ramble at the Ryman, Martin Fischer, Jed Hilly, Daniel Petraitis, Edie Pfeffer, High Five Entertainment

MAGAZINE PROGRAM
Tennessee's Wild Side: Connecting the Cumberlands, Barry Cross, Alan Griggs, Steve Hall, Doug Jackson, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center

MAGAZINE SERIES
Tar Heel Traveler #8, Scott Mason, Tom Normanly, WRAL

PUBLIC AFFAIRS
The Blake McMeans Story, Barry Cross, Steve Hall, Doug Jackson, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Beating Breast Cancer: The Test Every Woman Deserves, Dan Robbins, Ann Sheridan, WCNC

INFORMATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM
Exploring Microgravity, John Hussey, Percy Luney, Janet Ivey, Steve Duensing, Janet's Planet

INFORMATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL SERIES
Janet's Planet Health Interstitials, John Hussey, Janet Ivey, Janet's Planet

CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS
Smart Start Kids, Willa Brigham, Bill Jensen, Phyllis Parish Howard, Janet Walters, WRAL

SPECIAL EVENT - LIVE
Let Freedom Sing , Steve Hayslip, Brandon Jones, Jackie Pillers, Lelan A. Statom, Amy Watson, WTVF

SPECIAL EVENT - EDITED
Home for the Holidays, Thomas Adams, Valerie Calhoun, John Koski, Howard Langston, Mearl Purvis, Paul F. Sloan, David Stotts, Alexander Wakefield Gordon, III, WHBQ

PSA SPOT
Nailed, Rob Simpson, The Tombras Group

PSA CAMPAIGN
Nashville Rescue Mission: Hunger to Hope Campaign, Jerry L. Walker, Brandon Heath, WTVF

PROMOTIONAL SPOT – NEWS
Wow! It's a Sham!, Brian Shrader, Jay Yovanovich, WRAL

PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN – NEWS
Morning People, Jerry L. Walker, WTVF

PROMOTIONAL SPOT – PROGRAMS
Analog Shut Off, Brent Kennedy, Jere S. Thomas, Onur Tukel, WTVI

PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN - PROGRAMS
Father's Day, Alexander Wakefield Gordon, III, David Stotts, WHBQ

COMMERCIAL SPOT - TIE
Blown Away, Debra L. Rhodes, Bohan Advertising/Fazoli's
Gallins Coffee Fight. Council Bradshaw, Deja View Media

COMMERCIAL CAMPAIGN
Rethink Church Campaign, Debra L. Rhodes, Bohan Advertising/United Methodist Communications

ANIMATION
Shan Animation Composite, Shan Zhong, WRAL

AUDIO
FOX 13 Composition, David Stotts, WHBQ

DIRECTOR – NEWS
Coverage Composite 2009, James Ford, Jr., WRAL

DIRECTOR – PROGRAMS
I Am a Man, Jonathan D. Epstein, Running Pony Productions/Old Bridge Media/Memphis Tourism Foundation

DIRECTOR - SHORT-FORM
SEC Football Open Featuring Rascal Flatts, David Barringer. Raycom Sports

EDITOR – NEWS
Mike Moore Composite, Michael Moore, WHBQ

EDITOR – PROGRAMS
The Blake McMeans Story, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center

EDITOR - SHORT FORM
SEC Football Open Featuring Rascal Flatts, David Barringer, Chris Stevens, Jeremy Williams, Raycom Sports

GRAPHIC ARTS
Jon Johnson Composite, Jon Johnson, FOX Sports South and SportSouth

LIGHTING
Crossroads Charlotte, Randy Fulp, Brett Ray, Emulsion Arts/WTVI

MUSIC COMPOSER/ARRANGER
I Am a Man, Scott Bomar, Deanie Parker, Running Pony Productions/Old Bridge Media/Memphis Tourism Foundation/Electraphonic Recording

PHOTOGRAPHY - NEWS
Nelson's News, Ted Nelson, WTVF

PHOTOGRAPHY – PROGRAMS - TIE
$5 Cover Amplified: What It Is and Valerie June , Alan Spearman, The Commercial Appeal
Duck River, William Bezubic III, Running Pony Productions

PHOTOGRAPHY - SHORT FORM
JWalker Pictures, Jerry L. Walker, WTVF

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Levon Helm: Ramble at the Ryman, Nicholas E. Dugger, High Five Entertainment/TNDV Television

WRITER – NEWS
Tang's Tall Tales Three, Jeffrey Tang, WTVF

WRITER – PROGRAMS - TIE
Finishing Well, Emily Pearce, Vanderbilt University News Service
I Am a Man, John Hubbell, Running Pony Productions/Old Bridge Media/Memphis Tourism Foundation

WRITER - SHORT FORM
An Incredibly Delightful Writing Composite, Anita Normanly, WRAL

INTERACTIVITY
The Oxford Presidential Debate on MyFoxMemphis.com, May-Lin Biggs, William C. Dotson, III, Jeramia Trotter, WHBQ

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EMMY AWARDS TICKETS,

Purchase tickets at
http://emmyexpress.com/membership_events.php?c=18&e=1

The Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences cordially invites you to the 24th ANNUAL MIDSOUTH REGIONAL EMMY® AWARDS

Host - DARRELL WALTRIP

Governors’ Award for Lifetime Achievement - FREEDOM FORUM - Speaking Freely, First Amendment Center and Newseum

Silver Circle Inductions - JERRY HAYES, WHNT, and SANDRA DAYE HUGHES, WFMY

Saturday, January 30, 2010
Schermerhorn Symphony Center
One Symphony Place
Nashville, Tennessee 37201
Cocktails (Cash Bar) – 6:00 p.m. Central
Banquet – 7:00 p.m. Central Awards and
Live Telecast – 8:00 p.m. Central
R.S.V.P by January 15 to

Purchase tickets at
http://emmyexpress.com/membership_events.php?c=18&e=1

For Ticket assistance call 615-259-0040


Hilton Downtown Nashville special Emmy rate is $149 plus tax for the all-suites hotel.
Online reservations at the group rate go to
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/BNANSHF-NAT-20100128/index.jhtml
Reservation deadline - January 15, group code NAT, or call 615-620-2150 for reservations

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EMMY AWARDS HOTEL RESERVATIONS,

Hilton Downtown Nashville special Emmy rate is $149 plus tax for the all-suites hotel.
Online reservations at the group rate go to
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/BNANSHF-NAT-20100128/index.jhtml
Reservation deadline - January 15, group code NAT, or call 615-620-2150 for reservations

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR,

Membership Year - June 1 to May 30
Emmy Award Eligibility Period - July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009

24th Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards - Saturday, January 30, 2010

March 1, 2010 - Entry Deadline
MIDSOUTH STUDENT TELEVISION AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
Eligibility Period: February 1, 2009 to January 31, 2010

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WHO WE ARE,

Chapter Office:
Geneva M. Brignolo, Executive Director
NATAS Nashville
161 Rains Avenue
Nashville, TN 37203
Voice Mail 615-259-0040
emmynash@aol.com
www.emmyonline.org/nashville

National Office:
NATAS
111 West 57th Street, #1020
New York, NY 10019
212-586-8424
fax 212-246-8129
PPillitteri@emmyonline.tv


Founded in 1957, The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS), best known for the internationally recognized Emmy Award, is a non-profit, professional organization dedicated to improving the quality of television at all levels. NATAS strives to raise industry standards, encourages those new to the profession, and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas on industry problems and concerns.

The Nashville/Midsouth Region, founded in 1984, encompasses the States of North Carolina (except Asheville) and Tennessee, and the television market of Huntsville, Alabama. In addition to granting the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards, the chapter awards scholarships, honors quarter-century industry veterans at the Silver Circle Celebration, conducts National Student Television Awards of Excellence, has a free, nationwide Job Bank, provides member discounts and insurance, and participates in judging Emmy entries at the regional and national levels.

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BOARD OF GOVERNORS,

NATAS NASHVILLE/MIDSOUTH 2009-2010 BOARD OF GOVERNORS
National Trustee, Phillip L. Bell, Executive Producer, Earnhardt & Company
National Trustee, Gene Policinski, Vice President, The First Amendment Center
Alternate Trustee, C. Paul Corbin
President, Ellen Jones Pryor, Communications Director, Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Vice President, Clifton Hunt, Promotions, NewsChannel 5 Network
Regional Vice President, Steve Crump, Reporter, WBTV
Regional Vice President, Sharon Tinsley, President, Alabama Broadcasters Association
Treasurer, Jennifer Lane, Tax Director/Entertainment, DeCosimo Vaden
Secretary, Laura Faber, Reporter/Producer, StorySource
Executive Director, Geneva M. Brignolo, NATAS
Legal Counsel, Kenneth R. Jones, Jr., The Jones Firm
Advanced Media Chairman, Michael Schoenfeld, Vice President, Duke University
Development Chairman, Maureen Cleator, New Business Manager, NewsChannel 5 Network
Education Chairman, Dr. Linda DeMarco Miller, Metro Nashville Public Schools
Emmy Awards Chairman, Beth Tucker Womack
Program Chairman, Rich Stone, Stone Productions
Rising Star Chairman, Pete Weber, Voice of the Nashville Predators
Silver Circle Chairman, Phillip L. Bell
Student Awards Chairman, Jacqueline Ann Pillers, Special Projects, WTVF
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David J. Bennett, President, Owner, Altura Productions, and Partner, Freewill Films
Jeff Davidson, Special Projects, WKRN
Nicholas Dugger, President, Tennessee Digital Video
Lisa Harless, Senior Vice President, Regions Morgan Keegan
Mason Hunter, Senior Director Media Licensing, BMI
Laramey Lawson, Senor Vice President/Media Director, GS&F: Gish, Sherwood and Friends
Joe Pagetta, Media Relations Manager, Nashville Public Television and Nashville Film Festival
Emily Pearce, Executive Producer, Vanderbilt University News Service
Karen-Lee Ryan, Editor, Tennessean.com
Ken Smith, News Director, WZTV Fox 17
Aaron Solomon, Anchor, WSMV
Sarah Trahern, Senior Vice President, GAC: Great American Country
George Uribe, President and CEO, GuestBooker.com
Steven Womack, Chair, Watkins Film School

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MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION,

Membership is a privilege extended to those actively engaged in television.
The membership year extends from June 1 - May 31.
Professional Membership: Available to those actively engaged in television.…………..…Annual Dues $60
Associate Membership: Available to those in related occupations who are interested in furthering excellence in television.…..……………………Annual Dues $60
Student Membership: Non-voting memberships are available to students enrolled in accredited telecommunications courses………………………………...…Annual Dues $25

Membership Benefits

• Substantial reductions on Emmy entry fees.
• NATASNEWS, the Chapter’s monthly electronic newsletter
• Television Quarterly, the prestigious journal of NATAS (online publication)
• Job Bank with free help wanted listings, free resume posting, and confidential e-mail addresses.
• NATAS/Vanderbilt University Professional Scholarship to the Poynter Institute
• Association rates on medical insurance

New Member Application Form - http://emmyexpress.com/membership_application.php?c=18
or
Members Renewal and Profile Update - http://emmyexpress.com/membership_login.php?c=18

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MIDSOUTH REGION BOUNDARIES,

The Nashville/Midsouth Region encompasses the States of North Carolina (except Asheville)
and Tennessee, and the television market of Huntsville, Alabama.
Markets include:
Alabama
Decatur
Florence
Huntsville
North Carolina
Charlotte
Durham
Greensboro
Greenville
High Point
New Bern
Raleigh
Washington
Wilmington
Winston-Salem
Tennessee
Chattanooga
Jackson
Knoxville
Memphis
Nashville
Tri-Cities

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MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION,

NATAS NASHVILLE/MIDSOUTH MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

To automatically become a member, or renew your membership please go to:

New Member Application Form - http://emmyexpress.com/membership_application.php?c=18
or
Membership Renewal and Profile Update -
http://emmyexpress.com/membership_login.php?c=18

Please write to emmynash@aol.com if you have any difficulties with the online service.

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STUDENT AWARDS RULEBOOK 2010,

Eligibility Period: February 1, 2009 to February 7, 2010
Entry Deadline: March 1, 2010

The Midsouth Student Television Award for Excellence promotes best practices to high school students and are intended to be an incentive for the pursuit of excellence in television journalism and to focus public attention on outstanding achievements in television produced by high school students. Faculty involvement can only be advisory.
Entries must be submitted as they were originally telecast, cablecast or webcast. There may not be any post-broadcast changes, except edits for time, as noted on the seven category descriptions that follow. An entry may be submitted by any student who is currently enrolled in high school and should be sponsored by the school, after school or school-related program where the work was produced.
Projects may be entered in more than one category (for example, an entry may be eligible for entry in both Writing and Long Form.)
Alternatively, the high school or after school program may endorse submissions produced by its enrolled students at public access facilities, or community arts centers, thereby verifying the submission as the student’s own. There is no limit to the numbers of entries that a school or after school program may submit in each category.

Who receives the Award?
The Midsouth Student Television Award for Excellence (an engraved glass pillar) will be presented to the sponsoring high school, after school program, or producing organization. The students involved in the production of the entry will receive certificates. Following the distribution of the awards, duplicate awards (glass pillars) with individual student names will be available at a cost of $125.00.

What are the eligibility requirements?
All entries must have been originally broadcast, cablecast or webcast within the Midsouth Region (States of North Carolina [except Asheville] and Tennessee, and northern Alabama) in the period of time from February 1, 2009 to January 31, 2010. Applicants must be currently enrolled as full time high school students as of the application deadline of Mrch 1, 2010.

Categories
1. News - News entries may run no more than 5 minutes.
For outstanding reporting achievement in a regularly scheduled presentation of timely news, information and current events. Entries may contain spot news, investigations and feature stories on any newsworthy subject. Coverage of controversial issues is welcome. In-studio set-up or anchor link work will not be considered as an asset unless it materially contributes to the editorial content of the individual report.
News entries will be judged on the basis of editorial content and pictorial coverage which demonstrate awareness of broadcast journalistic standards, including accuracy and fairness. Judges will particularly look for well-organized material paying close attention to clearly written narration and appropriate sound bites. Preference will be given to individual pieces demonstrating reporting and field production.

2. Arts & Entertainment, Cultural Affairs - Pieces may run no more than 3 minutes. An individual may enter a compilation of his or her work in this category consisting of no more than 3 unedited pieces totaling 9 minutes in running time For outstanding reporting achievement in a regularly scheduled presentation of content with cultural or artistic significance.
Judges will particularly look for well-organized material paying close attention to clearly written narration and
appropriate sound bites. Subject matter can include (but is not limited to) reports on popular trends, lifestyles,
fashion, performing arts, music, fine arts, literature and historical retrospectives. Concept, content and execution
will be important elements in judging the entries.

3. Long Form (Fiction and Non-Fiction) - Entries must run no less than 6 minutes and no more than 10 minutes. If the original presentation ran more than 10 minutes, entrants are permitted to submit two 5 minute unedited segments that best exemplify the total work. For outstanding achievement in a regularly scheduled, or special presentation, of a long-form treatment of a single subject. Subject matter can include (but is not limited to) investigations, examinations of social issues, personal relationships, sports, lifestyles, music, performing arts, entertainment, fashion and historical retrospectives.
Concept, content and execution will be important elements in judging the entries. Judges will particularly look
for well-organized material paying close attention to clearly written narration and appropriate sound bites.

4. Sports - Pieces may run no more than 3 minutes. An individual may enter a compilation of his or her work in this category consisting of no more than 3 unedited pieces totaling 10 minutes in running time. For outstanding reporting achievement in a regularly scheduled or special presentation of sports news and information. In-studio set-up, or anchor work, will not be considered as an asset unless it materially contributes to the editorial content of the presentation.
Judges will particularly look for well-organized material, paying close attention to clearly written narration and
appropriate sound bites.

5. Public Affairs/Community Service/Public Service - Pieces may run as long as 2 minutes. An individual may enter a compilation of his or her work in this category consisting of no more than 4 unedited pieces totaling 8 minutes in running time. For outstanding achievement in a regularly scheduled, or special presentation, of content with current social, civic, or other issue-oriented subject matter. Advocacy of a point-of-view is encouraged.
Concept, content and execution will be important elements in judging the entries. Entries will be judged on the
basis of concept, content and execution which demonstrate awareness of broadcast journalistic standards,
including accuracy and fairness.

6. Craft Achievement - Entries may run no more than 10 minutes. An individual may enter a compilation of several examples of his or her specific craft achievement. For outstanding achievement in the technical aspects of an entry. Students who wish to enter an entire news program demonstrating their on-camera performance, or their graphics presentation, or their animation, or other production aspects are urged to submit in this category. The category also recognizes individual craft achievement in areas such as camera work, special effects, editing, music arrangement or composition, scenic and production design, lighting, directing and sound.

7. Writing – Entries may run no more than 10 minutes. The completed, produced piece must be entered. For outstanding achievement in writing in all forms, including both fiction and non-fiction. The award for writing is designed to encourage clarity of thought as well as creativity. Both style and substance count heavily in determining the winner. News and news-related scripts must be fair and accurate and must demonstrate logical organization of editorial content so that a viewer will easily understand the story that is being told. Dramatic scripts also are eligible.

Does all material have to be original?
At least two-thirds of an entry must consist of original material, unless previously produced material has been given some unique and creative treatment. Entrants must specifically identify and give credit to all non-original material included in the entry. This includes music use.

What if my entry is in a language other than English?
Entries in English will be judged by English-speaking peers. Entries in Spanish will be judged by Spanish-speaking peers. Entries in other languages may be entered. Judging of these entries is subject to the availability of qualified judges who speak the language of the entry. We recommend that entrants in languages other than English or Spanish submit an English-language translation of the narration track.

How does the judging process work?
Entries will be judged by a mixture of media teachers, graduate students from colleges and universities in the Midsouth region, as well as seasoned television professionals. To make sure that there are no conflicts of interest, judges are assigned to panels for school submissions in geographic areas other than their own. Judges may not have a conflict of interest, which is described as having a direct involvement in the production of an entry, or having a personal relationship with a member of the production staff of an entry.

How do I enter my work?
Entries will be accepted only on DVD. The readability of the DVD is the responsibility of the entrant. DVDs that cannot be “read”, cannot be judged and entry fees will not be refunded.

The following guidelines shall apply:
• DVD-R format (DVD minus R)
• DVDs must be finalized and compatibility tested on a different DVD player than the one used to burn the entry.
• Brand-name disks are recommended.
• Printed DVD labels (paper labels) are not allowed; instead use a permanent marker to legibly PRINT identifying information on the disk. Ink jet or laser printing that can be applied directly to the DVD face (printable media) is acceptable.
• Name of entry.
• Category number and name.
• Running time.
• Use a clear sleeve or case.
• One entry per DVD.
• Fill out the entry form and include two copies of the printed entry form with the DVD.

Entry Deadline. Entries, entry forms and checks/credit card payments must be received no later than 5 pm on Monday, March 1, 2010.

Send entries to:
NATAS Nashville Student Awards
161 Rains Avenue
Nashville, TN 37203

What does it cost to enter?
Each entry requires an accompanying processing fee of $35.00, payable by check, American Express, VISA or MasterCard. Checks should be made out to “NATAS Nashville”. This fee is non-refundable.

Are there other rules?
Entries missing information on the entry form, or entries submitting incorrect fees, or entries that do not follow guidelines will be subject to a $15.00 reprocessing fee for EACH correction, or the entry may be subject to disqualification.

The intentional falsification of production credits by an entrant will be the basis for disqualification of the entry.

All entries must be submitted as originally broadcast, cablecast or webcast. The Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences reserves the right to corroborate any information on an entry form, to combine duplicate entries, or to disqualify an entry. All entries are subject to approval by the Midsouth Chapter.

Schools and student award recipients may refer to the fact that they are recipients of a Midsouth Student Television Award for Excellence, but may not use the EMMY name or replica of the EMMY statuette in any form of advertising or promotion.

The Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences assumes no responsibility for the errors or omissions made by entries or individuals in the submission of entries pursuant to this notice. Entrants are urged to read this Rulebook and follow its instructions carefully. The Midsouth Chapter assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of information contained in a submission. Entrants are solely responsible for submitting correct information pertaining to the submission. The Midsouth Chapter will not accept submissions which are contrary to or in conflict with any of its rules or regulations.

Submission of the entry to the Midsouth Student Television Awards for Excellence constitutes permission for the Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to telecast or screen the entry and to webcast the entry, or portions of the entry,

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STUDENT TELEVISION ENTRY FORM,

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JUNE 2009

ACADEMY NEWS

MIDSOUTH REGIONAL EMMY AWARDS
The Call fro Entries for the 24th Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards will be published online in early July. The eligibility period is July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009. The updated version will include updated features, including online entry forms, online memberships, and online credit card submissions with automatic credit card receipts. Entries will be due August 14.

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CBS, TV ACADEMY MOVE EMMYS TO SEPT. 13
TV WEEK, 6/1/09
CBS and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences are moving up the date of this year’s Emmy broadcast to Sept. 13, a week earlier than first announced.
The network and the TV Academy had planned to air the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 20. But after that decision was made, the NFL came out with its Sunday schedule, and it turned out CBS had a football doubleheader on Sept. 20. Football almost always bleeds over into primetime when networks have doubleheaders. And because CBS is loathe to pre-empt “60 Minutes,” broadcasting the Emmys on Sept. 20 would have likely resulted in the awards starting late. CBS and the Academy decided it made sense to simply move the Emmys a week earlier.

NATIONAL NEWS

A.P. IN DEAL TO DELIVER NONPROFITS’ JOURNALISM
By Richard Perez-Pena, New York Times, June 13, 2009
Four nonprofit groups devoted to investigative journalism will have their work distributed by The Associated Press, The A.P. will announce on Saturday, greatly expanding their potential audience and helping newspapers fill the gap left by their own shrinking resources. Starting on July 1, the A.P. will deliver work by the Center for Public Integrity, the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and ProPublica to the 1,500 American newspapers that are A.P. members, which will be free to publish the material. The A.P. called the arrangement a six-month experiment that could later be broadened to include other investigative nonprofits, and to serve its nonmember clients, which include broadcast and Internet outlets. Read full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/business/media/13press.html?_r=1&th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY JOURNALISM SCHOOL DUPONT AWARDS
Submit your best broadcast news reporting by July 1 to Columbia Journalism School's Alfred I. duPont Awards. Programs must have aired for the first time in the United States between July 1, 2008, and June 30, 2009. Long-form entries running longer than 2 hours must be received by June 15. All other entries must be received by July 1. Details and entry instructions at
http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/cs/ContentServer/jrn/1212610841998/page/1175374744133/JRNSimplePage2.htm

REGIONAL NEWS

POLICE, WBTV CLASH AT CRASH SITE
Station says camera was damaged, photographer handcuffed during dispute with CMPD officers.
By Mark Washburn, Charlotte Observer, 6/3/09
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police have launched an internal investigation into a confrontation between an officer and a WBTV (Channel 3) photographer in which a camera was damaged and the photographer detained. The incident occurred near midnight Friday. Travis Washington, a photographer with Channel 3 for about three years, was sent to the scene of a fatal accident on Interstate 485 near Beatties Ford Road. Washington and a photographer for WSOC (Channel 9) were shooting video of the scene from an embankment overhead, next to the Beatties Ford Road bridge, said Dennis Milligan, news director of Channel 3. “A couple CMPD officers started shouting orders at him to stop shooting. And they approached and continued to shout orders to take his camera down. “He felt like he was doing his job. He asked them why. A female officer stepped up and started to grab the camera out of his hands, and it fell to the ground. She told him, ‘Because you're not showing proper respect to people in the accident.'” Washington was then handcuffed and put into a cruiser, where he was held for about an hour before being released without charges. He was treated afterward at an emergency room for a minor back injury related to the confrontation, said Milligan, who went to the scene after the station's assignment desk alerted him. Police took no action against the Channel 9 photographer.
Milligan said the dialogue during the confrontation was recorded by the camera, but he wouldn't release a copy because it hadn't yet been made available to investigators. Police declined Tuesday to give an account of the incident. “It would be inappropriate for us to comment right now because there's an internal affairs investigation,” said spokesman Rob Tufano. Washington is on vacation this week and couldn't be reached for comment. “We have a difficult situation here because it's not up to the Police Department or any police officer to decide what a newspaper or television station or radio station gathers at the scene of an accident,” Milligan said. He said the photographers were not creating a safety hazard to motorists or lingering close to the area where emergency crews were working. “I'm hoping this is a limited situation with a police officer who, for whatever reason, had a lapse of judgment. We're concerned about our First Amendment rights being compromised in this situation.” Robin Whitmeyer, Channel 9 news director, said it's common for officers to tell photographers to back up if they're too close to a scene, but she'd never heard of police ordering cameras shut off. “We control the content, and they control the scene,” she said. “It's not their choice to tell us what to shoot or not to shoot.” Milligan said the camera had about $1,000 in damage from a broken viewfinder and other parts. He said he plans to ask police to pay for repairs. Deputy Police Chief Kerr Putney is to meet with WBTV executives today. Link to article - http://www.charlotteobserver.com/597/story/759907.html

FOR NATAS MIDSOUTH NEWSLETTER
By Gene Policinski
The First Amendment’s free press provision likely is most often cited in defense of what is broadcast, published or put online for the public to see.
But of necessity, the First Amendment also must shelter the newsgathering process as well as the product.
The ability to deliver a news report without government interference or punishment is “chilled” – if not prevented – if officials at any level can unreasonably and unilaterally restrict the process by which news is discovered, recorded and assembled.
There are reasonable restrictions that can fairly be applied or are grounded in a compelling public interest – preserving evidence at a criminal investigation scene or for matters of obvious public safety, as examples. And, yes, there is no accepted rule of law that automatically gives journalists more access than any other citizens to crime scenes, areas of storm damage and the like.
But even if authorities can cite legal limits on news media operations on-the-scene, those limits should be applied in the most minimal way. And, the goal ought to be the greatest public good, not simple convenience, whim or the individual likes and dislikes of any particular police officer or other public official.
Many news organizations and operations have codes, guidelines and procedures addressing all concerns of safety and common sense. And for the most part, journalists across the nation live up to those reasonable standards each day.
That is what is so troubling about a confrontation in early June involving
Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., police and a WBTV (Channel 3) photographer at the scene of a fatal accident on Interstate 485. A camera reportedly was damaged and the photographer was detained.
Along with a photographer for WSOC (Channel 9), the news staffers were shooting video of the scene from an embankment, said Dennis Milligan, news director of Channel 3, in a June 3 report in the Charlotte Observer.
"A couple CMPD officers started shouting orders at him to stop shooting. They approached and continued to shout orders to take his camera down,” Milligan is quoted as saying. “He felt like he was doing his job. He asked them why. A female officer stepped up and started to grab the camera out of his hands, and it fell to the ground. She told him, 'Because you're not showing proper respect to people in the accident’.”
The WBTV photogapher was held, handcuffed, for about an hour before being released without charges, the newspaper reported. He also was treated afterward at an emergency room for a minor back injury related to the confrontation, said Milligan.
Milligan said the photographers were not creating a safety hazard or working too close to the emergency crews. Police officials are conducting an internal investigation, reports said.
Having reported on many fatal accidents earlier in my career, I can attest that TV dramas and movie plots generally have it wrong. Reality at a crime scene very often is chaotic, demanding and, yes, emotional for police and other emergency personnel. But I recall times when officials at the scene for no apparent reason considered me just another bystander instead of keeping in mind that I too had an important job to do: Gathering and reporting news on behalf of the public.
Journalists generally have no more right of access to information or crime and accident scenes than do any other citizen. But they do have good reason – and, in my view, a constitutional role – for being at the scene of news. Such reports document a vital part of the daily fabric of life in our communities. They also contribute to the “watchdog on government” role that the nation’s founders envisioned when providing for a free press.
Still, a federal judge in California recently agreed with police who handcuffed an Oakland Tribune news photographer for 30 minutes, and left him sitting roadside, after he attempted to photograph an interstate auto crash in 2007. Judge Charles Brewer wrote that police were entitled to treat photographer Ray Chavez as they would any other member of the public at a crime scene, even though he clearly was there in his professional role. Chavez reporterd that police said he “didn’t need to take those kind of pictures,” though actually he was cited for leaving his car in a traffic lane and for disobeying an order to return to his car and drive away.
Both the California and North Carolina incidents would seem rooted more in issues of taste or sympathy than professional concerns.
News photographers are not the morbidly curious who sometimes show up at crime scenes and auto accidents. They are professionals whose job it is to document the images that occur around news – even when those images are tragic or unsettling.
The “Fairness” section of the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct of the Radio Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) provides that broadcast journalists should “treat all subjects of news coverage with respect and dignity, showing particular compassion to victims of crime or tragedy.” RTNDA also provides guidelines for reporting on law enforcement actions, including police raids, hostage-taking situations and the like.
Such professional, reasonable and compassionate approaches are, under the First Amendment, properly the stuff of self-imposed codes created by journalists. Arbitrary decisions about the operations of a free press should not be created or enforced on the spot by any government representative.
Gene Policinski is a member of the board of governors of the Midsouth Chapter of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and a NATAS national trustee. A longtime journalist in print, television, radio and online news operations, he is vice president and executive director of the First Amendment Center, which has offices at the Seigenthaler Center on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.; and at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

‘CAROLINA TRAVELER' FADES TO BLACK
Series featuring some of the Carolinas' odd, enduring and iconic folks is canceled.
by Mark Washburn, Charlotte Observer, May. 30, 2009
This week, the “Carolina Traveler” hit the road. The end of the road. On Friday, WCNC (Channel 36) aired the last installment of Mike Redding's oddball odyssey through the Carolinas, an eight-year series of tales of unusual things and people. Redding was told last month that his contract at the station, where he has been for 11 years, would not be renewed. No hard feelings. “Everybody's getting laid off these days,” says Redding, 48. “It's just the economy.” Some of his stories have attracted national attention. In 2003, after doing a segment on Margaret Sparkman, the 90-something gourd lady of Conover, he got a call from a “Tonight Show” producer. They wanted her to model her colorfully painted gourd hats on Jay Leno's show. “She stole the show,” Redding says. “I still get calls from the ‘Tonight Show' asking, ‘When can you get us another gourd lady?'” After he did a feature on “Pilots N Paws,” a group of pilots who fly unwanted pets to places where they'll be adopted, “NBC Nightly News” with Brian Williams did a report on them in January. Sometimes he'd get tips on weird stories and sometimes he'd just spot them on the roadside. That's how he got the story of what is called the nation's smallest post office. He was driving to the beach on another story when he spotted an old post office the size of a shed in a front yard. “Mr. Hooper's old post office – when he retired, he hitched it up and took it home with him,” Redding says. Sometimes his subjects have ideas for him, too. Redding once did the Button King – a man who sticks buttons on things to cure his insomnia, including 750,000 buttons all over the hearse that took his mother to her grave. As he was walking away, the Button King cried out, “Hey! You've heard about the Spoon Man haven't you?” Yes, he went on to do the spoon collector, the owl lady and the salt-and-pepper shaker lady of – where else? – Sugar Loaf Mountain. Along the way, he collected 28 regional Emmys, most of which are in the garage of his home in Fort Mill, S.C., where he lives with his wife of three years, former WCNC reporter Anna Crowley, and their 11-week-old son. He also won two prestigious national Edward R. Murrow awards for “Carolina Traveler.” Read full story at http://www.charlotteobserver.com/413/story/752494.html

NSA STUDENTS HONORED FOR WORK IN FILM
The Tennessean, May 29, 2009
Three students at Nashville School of the Arts were honored at the Midsouth Region Student Award Ceremony, sponsored by the Midsouth Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Ryman Lloyd received two separate honorable mentions for his work on two films – in arts and entertainment or Procrastination and in long form for Battle of Stones. Jake Beitter won the long-form Emmy for Black Friday. All students worked under the supervision of NSA mass media teacher John Newsom. Over the past three years, NSA students have won three student Emmys and been awarded seven honorable mentions. NSA students have also won two awards for best use of original music. For more information regarding NSA, visit www.nashvilleschoolofthearts.com

LOCAL ‘MUSIC ROW’ SHOW CELEBRATES ITS 100TH EPISODE
By Ron Wynn, Nashville City Paper, June 5, 2009
When CJM Productions executive producer Jeff Moseley and producer/director Brian Covert first crafted a pilot for a weekly local television show covering events and personalities in Nashville and Music Row the reaction was lukewarm at best. “I think our timing wasn’t quite right back in 1999-2000,” Covert recalled. “It didn’t seem like people thought at the time that there was enough of an audience out there for that type of show. But we never gave up on the idea. We believed in it.” Moseley and Covert put together another pilot in 2006 that resulted in the creation of Inside Music Row. This time they found a willing station host, and the show celebrates its 100th episode Sunday night at 9:30 p.m. on WNAB/CW-58. The program has done well enough to merit a time change, having moved from its original 10:30 slot to 9:30 p.m. after the first season. Inside Music Row is a production of CJM Productions and The Program Factory LLC. It combines reports from such events as concerts, red carpet events and elite parties with interview segments, features, indie performer showcases and interviews. Through a partnership with the AMG-TV network that began in December 2007, the show now reaches a weekly audience of more than 24 million viewers in 100 markets, plus thousands more online at Insidemusicrow.com, DigitalRodeo.com, iTunes and AOL Television
Read full article at http://nashvillecitypaper.com/content/lifestyles/local-music-row-show-celebrates-its-100th-episode

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

REBECCA HALL to Weekend Morning Anchor at WTVD Raleigh.

ADAM HENNING from News Director at WNCT Greenville to News Director at WAFF Huntsville. He has previously been a News Director in Wilmington, NC, and Gainesville, FL.

STEW HIRSCH to Assignment Manager at WLWT Cincinnati. He is the former News Director for WAFF Huntsville, and also worked in Raleigh and Columbus.

DENISE KILLIAN to News Director at KWQC Davenport, from interim News Director. Previously, she was Assistant News Director at WTEN Albany, and Executive Producer at WKRN Nashville.

PETE JACOBUS to News Director at WPTY/WLMT Memphis, from VP/North American Television for Frank N. Magid Associates. Earlier in his career, he wasNews Director in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Detroit and San Diego, and also served as a Vice President for ABC News.

MIKE MACIEJEWSKI to Executive Producer at WSOC Charlotte, fromWTXF Philadelphia.

LYRA MANNING to Weekend Anchor/Reporter at WCCB Charlotte, from Morning Anchor at WBTW Myrtle Beach.

FRANK MICKENS to Weekday Evening Anchor from Anchor/Investigative Reporter at WFMY Greensboro.

WILSON SURRATT to Senior Executive Producer of PM News Programming at WPIX New York.. Surratt, who in 2000 launched The PIX Morning News, (then titled the WB11 Morning News) was the Executive Producer of the broadcast from 2000-2002. Surratt returns to WPIX on June 8th. During his time away from PIX, Surratt founded South of Broad Productions, producing content for cable, broadband and international networks. He executive produced Street Signs and The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch on CNBC. He also headed flagship shows for CNN. Before coming to New York, he was in Los Angeles at KTLA-TV, where he worked as a senior producer for several shows, including the KTLA Morning News, News at Ten and the station's entertainment and variety talk show, The Live Show. He began his career at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, N.C., where he got started as a production assistant, and was promoted to writer and producer. Surratt earned a bachelor's degree from Duke University where he majored in English and religion. He also holds a master's degree in television from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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EMMY AWARDS INFORMATION,

REGIONAL AWARDS

Material broadcast in the Midsouth Region, which encompasses the States of North Carolina (except Asheville) and Tennessee, plus Huntsville, Alabama, from July 1 to June 30 is eligible for entry. Only programming seen in under 50% of the country can be considered. Official entry forms are available in June of each year, with entries on VHS tapes due at the end of August.

Please see the current Call for Entries brochure and Entry Form at the top of this page for complete details.

Nominations are announced on the Friday before Thanksgiving. Emmy Awards are granted at a banquet and live telecast in Nashville late January. Entry forms are available from the chapter office, or may be downloaded. Television professionals and broadcasting students are invited to volunteer to be on the telecast staff.

The Governors’ Award, the most prestigious Regional Emmy, is voted by the Board of Governors annually to honor an outstanding industry leader or company whose contributions are so great that they are beyond the scope of the Emmy Awards categories. The Nashville/Midsouth Chapter has honored the following:

GOVERNORS' AWARD RECIPIENTS
Irving Waugh - 1986
Jack DeWitt - 1987
Dan Miller - 1988
Bob Boatman - 1989
Bill Jay - 1990
Ralph Emery - 1991
Chris Clark –1992
John Seigenthaler, Sr.- 1993
E. W. Bud Wendell - 1994
Mike Kettenring - 1995
James G. Babb - 1996
David Hall - 1997
Robert L. Shepherd - 1998
James F. Goodmon - 1999
C. Paul Corbin - 2000
Deborah A. McDermott - 2001
Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks - 2002
Tom Howe - 2003
Tom Ervin - 2004
Bill Walker - 2005
Anne Holt - 2006


NATIONAL AWARDS

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awards Emmys for DAYTIME programming (including Children’s and Talk Shows), NEWS & DOCUMENTARY programming, and SPORTS programming, which aired in at least 51% of the total potential United States television audience. In addition, awards are given for COMMUNITY SERVICE, and PSA’s at both the national and regional levels.

For further information, contact:
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NATAS
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EMMY AWARD NOMINATIONS - 24TH ANNUAL,

NEWS EXCELLENCE
Channel 4 News, Working 4 You, Matthew Hilk, WSMV
FOX 13 News, Ken Jobe, WHBQ
News 2, Matthew Zelkind, WKRN
News Excellence WRAL-TV 2009, Rick Gall, WRAL
NewsChannel 5 Network, Michelle Bonnett, Sandra Boonstra, WTVF
WGHP - The News Leader, Karen Koutsky, WGHP

NEWSCAST/EVENING
Action News 5 at 10, Robert Edwards, WMC
Channel 4 News at 5: Belmont Debate, Mary Katherine Rooker, WSMV
FOX 13 News at 9, Anetra Gaines, Sunny Hampton, Ken Jobe, Mearl Purvis, Joey Sulipeck, WHBQ
Good Friday, Bad Weather, Kenneth A. Smith, David Ditmore, Thonda Roberts, Erika Kurre, Stacy Case, WZTV
NewsChannel 5 at 10: Good Friday Tornadoes, Rhori Johnston, Sarah Moore, WTVF
Tar Heel Triumph, Chris Burns, Phillipe Charles, Chad Flowers, Lori Grant, Martha Woodward, WRAL

NEWSCAST/DAYTIME
Good Morning Memphis, Valerie Calhoun, Ernie Freeman, Leon Griffin, Claire Jones Heath, Lauren Lee, Nick Burchett, WHBQ
News 2 at 4, Karen Brown, Alison Coe, John Dwyer, Anne Holt, Neil Orne, Melissa Penry, Matthew Zelkind, WKRN
NewsChannel 5 at 4: Officer Shooting, Debbie Vincent, Vicki Yates, WTVF

NEWSCAST/WEEKEND
Deadly Tornadoes, Stephanie Beck, Kelcey Carlson, Phillipe Charles, David Crabtree, Chad Flowers, James A. Ford, Jr., Lori Grant, Tony W. Gupton, Sloane Heffernan, Bruce Mildwurf, Bolton Minnick, , Martha Woodward, WRAL
Good Friday Tornadoes - The Day After, Sara Dorsey, Maurice Miller, Regina Raccuglia, Aaron Solomon, WSMV
NewsChannel 5 at 10, W. Clayton Farrar, WTVF
Waiting for Gustav, Matthew Peace, WPTY

SPOT NEWS
I Still Hear Them, Toney Cook, John Pate, Charlie Woodward, WTVF
Nursing Home Tragedy, Dan Bowens, Christine Bowley, Sloane Heffernan, Ken Smith, Martha Woodward, WRAL
Out of Gas!, Kenneth A. Smith, Sky Arnold,, Robert Brown, Bradley J. Pfranger, WZTV

BREAKING NEWS
ConAgra Plant Explosion, David Crabtree, Chad Flowers, Rick Gall, Tony W. Gupton, WRAL
Good Friday, Bad Tornadoes, Sara Dorsey, Matthew Hilk, Melissa James, Lisa Spencer, Molly Day, Jennifer Johnson, WSMV
Officer Shot, Michelle Bonnett, Lacey Strader, Rachel Ward, Vicki Yates, WTVF
Tennessee Twisters, Kenneth A. Smith, Rhonda Roberts, David Ditmore, David Weathersby, Erika Kurre, WZTV

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORT - WITHIN 24 HRS
Banana Bandit, Brent Campbell, Kenneth Cravens, WGHP
Fallen Soldier , Venton Blandin, WHNT
Ice Melt, Ted Nelson, Jeffrey Tang, WTVF
New Day at New Midway, Mike McCarthy, WVLT
Relief for the Relief, Ted Nelson, WTVF
Sexting Messages , Mike McCarthy, WVLT
The Last Day of Nancy Reynolds School, Chad Tucker, WGHP

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORT
58 Crosses, Andy Benton, WCNC
A Lost Call for Justice, Ben Hall, Iain Montgomery, Kevin Wisniewski, WTVF
Gang Invasion, Molly Grantham, Jeffrey Keene, WBTV
Homeless 9 Year Old Student, Jill Monier, Michael Moore, WHBQ
Hostage, Roy Hallums, Mearl Purvis, Chris Russell, WHBQ

CONTINUING COVERAGE - WITHIN 24 HRS
Deadly Tornadoes, Chad Flowers, Rick Gall, WRAL
News 2-The Good Friday Tornado, Bartt Baird, Karen Brown, Alison Coe, Erica Simmons, Matthew Zelkind, WKRN
WGHP - Greensboro Flooding, Karen Koutsky, Brad Ingram, WGHP

CONTINUING COVERAGE
Anatomy of a Crisis, Andrew Douglas, WMC
The V.A. Colonoscopy Scandal, Demetria Kalodimos, Deanna Lambert-Thomas, WSMV
VUCast: Conjoined Twins, Patrick Slattery, Amy Wolf, Vanderbilt University News Service
What's the Deal in Jennette? , Alistair Clark, Eric King, Michael Moore, WHBQ
Who's Watching Your Kids?, Scott Noll, WREG
Why Isn't the Hydrant Working?, Zina Bauman, Jeremy Finley, Don Mashburn, WSMV
WRAL.com, Jodi Glusco, CBC New Media

SERIOUS FEATURE NEWS REPORT
A Soldier's Portrait, Jeffrey Tang, WTVF
Audrey Caroline, Zina Bauman, WSMV
Charlotte's Future Transportation, Brien Blakely, Terrence Walker, WCCB
Her Blood on HIs Hands, Andy Benton, Stuart Watson, WCNC
Josh Gets a Bike, Nathan C. Sharkey, Jeffrey Tang, WTVF
Picking Cotton, Bob Buckley, WGHP
Remembering Anne Pressly, Mearl Purvis, Paul F. Sloan, David Stotts, WHBQ

SERIOUS FEATURE NEWS SERIES
Ann's Story, Dan Robbins, Ann Sheridan, WCNC
Battling Obesity: Life at 650 lbs., Nick Paranjape, Robert Brown, WZTV
Grave Injustice, Lee Marshall, WAFF
Protecting Patients, Don Dare, David George Wignall, WATE

LIGHT FEATURE NEWS REPORT
Birthday Caller, Scott Mason, Tom Normanly, WRAL
Lie To Me, Jill Monier, Michael Moore, WHBQ
Pizza Rocker Dude, Derric Curran, Tom Dees, WHBQ
Santa's Surprise , Kim Gebbia, Phillip Kivett, WXII
The Mustache Revolution, Alexander Wakefield Gordon, III, Paul F. Sloan, David Stotts, Joey Sulipeck, WHBQ

LIGHT FEATURE NEWS SERIES
A Day in the Life, Robert Brown, John Dunn, Bradley J. Pfranger, WZTV
Celebrate The Smokies, Kristin Farley, Ben Williams, WATE
Scooterman, Matt Jensen, Brad Jones, WGHP
Travelin' Tennessee, Bob Shrader, Flint Adam, Miranda Cohen, WZTV

INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
A Failure to Protect, Zina Bauman, Jeremy Finley, Don Mashburn, WSMV
Charity or Con?, Jim O’Donnell, Keli Rabon, WREG
Failure to Report, Jim O’Donnell, Keli Rabon, WREG
Locksmith Sting, Cullen Browder, Greg Clark, WRAL
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: General Sessions Court, Bryan Staples, Phil Williams, Kevin Wisniewski, WTVF
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: The Ticket Fixers, Bryan Staples, Phil Williams, Kevin Wisniewski, WTVF
What's the Deal in Jennette? , Alistair Clark, Eric King, Michael Moore, WHBQ

BUSINESS/CONSUMER REPORT
Credit Repair, Jim O’Donnell, Keli Rabon, WREG
Nashville's Last Outlaw, Ben Hall, Iain Montgomery, Kevin Wisniewski, WTVF
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Locked Out, Jennifer Kraus, Bryan Staples, WTVF
Scared to Buy, Wendy Halloran, Shane Hays, Denise Vickers, WHNT
Tough Cell Phone, Tanya Rivera, Alan Wagmeister, WFMY
Who's Making the Cut, Michelle Boudin, John Gray, WCNC

SPECIALTY ASSIGNMENT REPORT
Hope Without a Cure, Lauren Johnson, Michael Moore, WHBQ
M.L.K. Preparing a Legacy, Ben Watson, WMC
Old Soldiers Don't Fade Away, Christopher J. Bundgaard, WKRN
School Patrol, Charlie Woodward, Vicki Yates, WTVF
Textecution, Michael Hamlet, Nick Kenney, WMC
The Case of the Missing Heiress, Janice Broach, Jeremy Jones, Brian Svec, WMC

JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE - WITHIN 24 HRS
Shae Crisson - Breaking News & Exclusive Interviews, Shae Crisson Rozzi, WTVD
Sick Firefighter, Amanda Hara, Nathan C. Sharkey, WTVF

JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE
By Appointment Only, Andrew Douglas, Jeremy Jones, WMC
Home Sweet Meth Home, Jim O’Donnell, Keli Rabon, WREG
Molly Grantham Compilation, Molly Grantham, WBTV
Phil Williams Investigates, Bryan Staples, Phil Williams, WTVF
Protecting Patients, Don Dare, David George Wignall, WATE
PSI: Charlotte, Jamie Boll, Jeffrey Keene, WBTV

NEWS SPECIAL
10 Years of NewsChannel 5 Investigates, Jennifer Kraus, Bryan Staples, Phil Williams, WTVF
Presidential Debate 2008: At the Crossroads, Tammy Phillips, WMC
Remembering Coach Kay Yow, Erin Coleman, James A. Ford, Jr., Jeff Gravley, Pam Saulsby, Jennifer Sorber, WRAL
Turf War: Charlotte's 30 Year Battle, Molly Grantham, Kim Saxon, Brian Stephenson, WBTV

SPORTSCAST
Indy Car Errands and Dr. Big Time, David Foster, Paul H. Jones, WZTV
WAFF 48 Sports, Michaelene Tetteh, WAFF

SPORTS SEGMENT
Alabama Superfan, Jeremy Williams, Raycom sports
Cameron Craies, Jeremy Williams, Raycom Sports
Grief and Glory, Joe Dubin, WKRN
Macho, Alex Farmartino, Raycom Sports
The Faster Pastor, Kevin Wrenn, WGHP

SPORTS PROGRAMS
Football Saturdays in the South, David Barringer, Alex Farmartino, Robert Reichley, Beverly Rumley, Lance Stewart, Jeremy Williams, RaycomSports
Nashville Predators Straight Up #2, Steve Becker, FOX Sports South and SportSouth
Panthers Playoff Preview, Wendy Robbins, WSOC
Showdown in Motown, James A. Ford, Jr., Jeff Gravley, Tony W. Gupton, Debra Morgan, WRAL
The Best 16 Minutes in Nashville Sports Broadcast History, Cory Curtis, Dawn Davenport, Joe Dubin, WKRN
Under the Lights: Wake Forest Basketball. Steve Becker, Ray Goodrich, FOX Sports Carolinas and SportSouth

SPORTS EVENT/GAME
Hurricanes NHL Playoffs Game 7, Rohan Backfisch, Erik Barnhart, Hammond Reynolds, FOX Sports Carolinas
Pat Summitt's 1000th Win, Hammond Reynolds, Craig Ritchie, FOX Sports South and SportSouth

WEATHERCAST
Feb. 28, 2009 Mid-South Snow Storm, Henry Rothenberg, Mark Walden, WPTY
Spring Sizzle, Lisa Spencer, WSMV
StormChaser, John Wendel, WCNC
Stormtrack 2008: Hanna, Dan Bowens, Gregory B. Fishel, Michael Maze, WRAL

WEATHER - CONTINUING COVERAGE
Good Friday Tornadoes, Lisa Spencer, WSMV
News 2 Weather-Stormtracking the Good Friday Tornado, Justin Bruce, W. Davis Nolan, Lisa Patton, Jeff Ray, WKRN
Storm 5 HD Weather: Good Friday Tornadoes, Charlie Neese, Lelan A. Statom, WTVF

DOCUMENTARY – CULTURAL
$5 Cover Amplified: Ben Nichols and Valerie June, Alan Spearman, The Commercial Appeal
A Walk in Watkins Park, Maryann Byrd, Byrdword Productions
Footprints of a King, Steve Crump, WTVI
Hometown Stories: The Greek Americans of Charlotte, Linda Midgett Otzenberger, WTVI

DOCUMENTARY – HISTORICAL
History Makers 2008: Chattanooga Sit-ins, Linda Duvoisin, Dave Porfiri, Peter DeLynn, Mindflow Media/WTCI
I Am a Man, Jonathan D. Epstein, Ryan Goble, John Hubbell, Deanie Parker, Calvin Taylor, Running Pony Productions/Old Bridge Media/Memphis Tourism Foundation
Twist of Fate, Jay Jennings, Clay Johnson, WRAL

DOCUMENTARY – TOPICAL
Coming Out-- Coming In: Faith, Identity and Belonging, Donna Campbell, Georgann Eubanks, Rev. Laurie Hays Coffman, Wildacres Leadership Initiative/Minnow Media
Sudan: Suffering and Survival, Steve Crump, WTVI
Taylor Stokes: Finishing Well, Emily Pearce, Patrick Slattery, Vanderbilt University News Service
The Least among Us, Pierre Kimsey, WKNO
The Wild Horses of Corolla, Christopher Mason, Shaheen Syal, WRAZ

HISTORIC/CULTURAL PROGRAM
Global Connections: Europe, Rob Holliday, UNC-TV
In Remembrance There is Life: A Night of Storytelling, Russ A. Abernathy, Kip Cole, WKNO
Next Door Neighbors: Somali, Suzy Hence, Will Pedigo, Nashville Public Television
Passion for the Land, Tom Earnhardt, Mark Crews, Joe Albea, Natural World Productions
Tennessee's Black Heritage, Jeff Davidson, Anne Holt, WKRN

ARTS
El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III, Scott H. Davis, UNC-TV/Nasher Museum of Art
Tennessee Shines Episode 6, Larsen Jay, Michael Twardy, Brandon Ward, DoubleJay Creative

ENTERTAINMENT
Gershwin at One Symphony Place, Susan Bowman, Robert Swope, Christopher Toyne, Alan D. Valentine, Sunrise Entertainment
Gimme the Mike 2008, Sally M. Ganz, Melanie Johnson, Ron Johnson, Dave Kaminsky, Josh King, LaVonda Kinloch, James Kramp, David Payne, Craig Reynolds, Rossana Seitter, WSOC
I Won't Let My Guard Down, Matt Barker, Jim Boyd, Jonathan Britt, Derek Darmstaedter, Brent Dowdell, Joel Evans, Jonathan Howard, Mark JJames, Perry Jenkins, Darby Ledbetter, Scott Matthews, William Miller, Sean Mullen, Alan Pfeil, Lee Phipps, Strength Readiness Support Center
Levon Helm: Ramble at the Ryman, Martin Fischer, Jed Hilly, Daniel Petraitis, Edie Pfeffer, High Five Entertainment
The Price of Peace, Matt Barker, Jonathan Britt, Derek Darmstaedter, Brent Dowdell, Kathy Edwards, Joel Evans, Jonathan Howard, William Jones, William Miller, Alan Pfeil, O'Neil Williams, Jr., Stanley Willis, Mark Wojciechowski, Strength Readiness Support Center

MAGAZINE PROGRAM
2009 Summer Fun Guide, Eric Dappen, Geoff Johnson, WFMY
Tar Heel Traveler / Halloween, Scott Mason, Tom Normanly, WRAL
Tennessee's Wild Side: Connecting the Cumberlands, Barry Cross, Alan Griggs, Steve Hall, Doug Jackson, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center

MAGAZINE SERIES
Southern Accents, Peter DeLynn, Karen Elliott, Shaun Townley, WTCI
Tar Heel Traveler #8, Scott Mason, Tom Normanly, WRAL
Tennessee's Wild Side, Barry Cross, Alan Griggs, Steve Hall, Doug Jackson, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center

PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Appalachia, Ray Arzate, Christine Maddela, WKRN
Harvesting the Wind, Mark Bellinger, Mike Rose, WTVF
Next Door Neighbors: Hablamos Espańol , Kevi n Crane, Matthew Emigh, Suzy Hence, Will Pedigo, Nashville Public Television
Perry County 27% Unemployment, Christopher J. Bundgaard, Joe Gregory, WKRN
Smart Medicine, Joseph A. Stuber, Running Pony Productions
The Blake McMeans Story, Barry Cross, Steve Hall, Doug Jackson, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Beating Breast Cancer: The Test Every Woman Deserves, Dan Robbins, Ann Sheridan, WCNC
Next Door Neighbors, Beth Curley, Nashville Public Television
The Safe & Sound Project, Sarah Moore, WTVF
Underage and Under the Influence, Kevin Crane, Barry Cross, Steve Hall, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center/Nashville Public Television

INFORMATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM
Exploring Microgravity, John Hussey, Percy Luney, Janet Ivey, Steve Duensing, Janet's Planet
Get Out Alive, Russell Biven, Erin Donovan, Jake Resler, Bill Shory, WBIR
Mother Goose Club: "Baa Baa Black Sheep", Harry Jho, Sona Jho, Sockeye Media
Mother Goose Club: "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear", Harry Jho, Sona Jho, Sockeye Media
Stormtrack 2008, Phillipe Charles, Leesa Moore Craigie, James A. Ford, Jr., Bill Leslie, Martha Woodward, Shan Zhong, WRAL

INFORMATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL SERIES
Fighting the Ghost: The Cancer Doctors Can't See, Ann Sheridan, WCNC
Janet's Planet Health Interstitials, John Hussey, Janet Ivey, Janet's Planet
Mother Goose Club, Harry Jho, Sona Jho, Sockeye Media
Whole Body Health - Bee Sting, David Wasser, Retirement Living TV

CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS
It's a Farmer Jason, Jason Ringenberg, Vintage Flick
Smart Start Kids, Willa Brigham, Bill Jensen, Phyllis Parish Howard, Janet Walters, WRAL

SPECIAL EVENT - LIVE
Let Freedom Sing , Steve Hayslip, Brandon Jones, Jackie Pillers, Lelan A. Statom, Amy Watson, WTVF
Midsouth Emmy Awards - 23rd Live, Phillip L. Bell, Geneva M. Brignolo, Nicholas E. Dugger, Lewis Harkness, Clifton Hunt, Hal Ketchum, Rich Stone, Samantha Smith, NATAS Nashville/Midsouth
The Mike - Live Finale, Sally M. Ganz, Melanie Johnson, Ron Johnson, Dave Kaminsky, Josh King, LaVonda Kinloch, James Kramp, David Payne, Craig Reynolds, Rossana Seitter, WSOC

SPECIAL EVENT - EDITED
Charlotte's Extreme Makeover Home Edition, Josh King, LaVonda Kinloch, WSOC
Home for the Holidays, Thomas Adams, John Koski, Howard Langston, Paul F. Sloan, David Stotts, Alexander Wakefield Gordon, III, Valerie Calhoun, Mearl Purvis, WHBQ

PSA SPOT
Clean Hands Are Cool Hands, Debra L. Rhodes, Bohan Advertising/HCA Foundation
Get Real Get Tested Doctor to Doctor, Karen Denise Johnson, WRAZ
Hunger to Hope: Give Me Your Eyes, Jerry L. Walker, Brandon Heath, WTVF
Nailed, Rob Simpson, The Tombras Group
The Choking Game PSA, Nic Beery, Sarah Huck, B eery Media
Triangle High Five - We Can't Afford Dropouts, Anita Normanly, WRAL
When You Drink Don't Drive, Karen Denise Johnson, Justin Owen, Samuel Scott Reid, WRAZ

PSA CAMPAIGN
FOX E Team - Energy Offenders, Patrick Cox, Vanessa Ezernieks, Alexander Wakefield Gordon, III, David Stotts, Amanda Pannell, Drew Smith, WHBQ
Nashville Rescue Mission: Hunger to Hope Campaign, Jerry L. Walker, Brandon Heath, WTVF
Vote 2008, Ron J. DeJoseph, Jr., WSOC

PROMOTIONAL SPOT – NEWS
ABC11 Eyewitness News Morning Image 09, Khristopher Kahle, Curtis Miles, WTVD
Definition of Marriage, Jay Yovanovich, WRAL
Kicked to the Curb: DTV Transition, Jerry L. Walker, WTVF
Tarheel Traveler Image, Stacie Holyfield, Shan Zhong, WRAL
What They Make, Vanessa Ezernieks, David Stott, WHBQ
Wow! It's a Sham!, Brian Shrader, Jay Yovanovich, WRAL
Your World, Roger Hobbs, Jr., WNCN

PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN – NEWS
Bad Dog!, Jay Yovanovich, WRAL
Morning People, Jerry L. Walker, WTVF
Wake Up With Friends, Shelly Leslie, Christian McIlwain, WRAL

PROMOTIONAL SPOT – PROGRAMS
Analog Shut Off, Brent Kennedy, Jere S. Thomas, Onur Tukel, WTVI
January Hits, James Banks, Justin Owen, Samuel Scott Reid, WRAZ
Showdown in Motown, Shelly Leslie, Jay Yovanovich, Shan Zhong, WRAL
So FOX 50, James Banks, WRAZ

PROMOTIONAL CAMPAIGN - PROGRAMS
Father's Day, Alexander Wakefield Gordon, III, David Stotts, WHBQ
Take it to the House, Michael Brouder, Jon Johnson, Ali x Jones, FOX Sports South and SportSouth
The Big Read, Onur Tukel, WTVI
The Fanzone, James Banks, WRAZ

COMMERCIAL SPOT
Blown Away, Debra L. Rhodes, Bohan Advertising/Fazoli's
Car Tricks, Christian McIlwain, Lori McIlwain, Fourth Rule Films/Viamark Advertising
Gallins Coffee Fight. Council Bradshaw, Deja View Media
Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau: See What’s Cooking, Javier Leiva, Running Pony Productions /CS2 Advertising
Pregnancy, Debra L. Rhodes, Bohan Advertising/Ochsner Healthcare
Stomach & Wallet, Debra L. Rhodes, Bohan Advertising/Fazoli's
Town Hall #2, Cameron Cornelius, The Lampo Group

COMMERCIAL CAMPAIGN
Cali-Parody, Vanessa Ezernieks, Paul F. Sloan, David Stotts, Joey Sulipeck, WHBQ
Fazoli's New Menu Campaign, Debra L. Rhodes, Bohan Advertising/Fazoli's
Healthcare with Peace of Mind, Debra L. Rhodes, Bohan Advertising/Ochsner Healthcare
Hilton E-Sales, Javier Leiva, Running Pony Productions/CS2 Advertising
Rethink Church Campaign, Debra L. Rhodes, Bohan Advertising/United Methodist Communications

ANIMATION
Animation Hits, Justin Owen, WRAZ
MooElla’s Fresh Dance. Shan Zhong, Fourth Rule Films
Shan Animation Composite, Shan Zhong, WRAL

AUDIO
FOX 13 Composition, David Stotts, WHBQ
Gershwin at One Symphony Place, Michael Davis, Robert Swope, Sunrise Entertainment
Good Ol' Girls, Georgann Eubanks, Rusty Knott, Karen Pearce, Mark Williams, Minnow Media/UNC-TV
I Am a Man, Benjamin Rednour, Running Pony Productions/Old Bridge Media/Memphis Tourism Foundation

DIRECTOR – NEWS
Action News 5 at 10, Brent Green, WMC
Are You Ready For Some Football?, Lewis Harkness, WKRN
Coverage Composite 2009, James Ford, Jr., WRAL

DIRECTOR – PROGRAMS
Gershwin at One Symphony Place, Robert Swope, Sunrise Entertainment
I Am a Man, Jonathan D. Epstein, Running Pony Productions/Old Bridge Media/Memphis Tourism Foundation
Levon Helm: Ramble at the Ryman, James Yockey, High Five Entertainment
Mother Goose Club, John Hussey, Sockeye Media
Our State: Puppet Masters, Morgan P. Potts, UNC-TV

DIRECTOR - SHORT-FORM
ACC/SEC Basketball Open, Alex Farmartino, Jeremy Williams, Raycom Sports
One More Time, Again, Jerry L. Walker, WTVF
SEC Football Open Featuring Rascal Flatts, David Barringer. Raycom Sports
WRAL Composite, Shan Zhong, WRAL

EDITOR – NEWS
Andy Benton Stories, Andy Benton, WCNC
Mike Hamlet Composite, Michael Hamlet, WMC
Mike Moore Composite, Michael Moore, WHBQ
The Farrier, Bradley J. Pfranger, John Dunn, WZTV
Zina Bauman Editing Composite, Zina Bauman, WSMV

EDITOR – PROGRAMS
A Walk in Watkins Park, Charles Michael Lewis, Byrdword Productions
Our State: Puppet Masters, Morgan P. Potts, UNC-TV
The Blake McMeans Story, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center
The Wild Horses of Corolla, Christopher Mason, WRAZ

EDITOR - SHORT FORM
FOX 13 Composite, David Stotts, WHBQ
JWalker Cuts & Composites, Jerry L. Walker, WTVF
SEC Football Open Featuring Rascal Flatts, David Barringer, Chris Stevens, Jeremy Williams, Raycom Sports

GRAPHIC ARTS
Jon Johnson Composite, Jon Johnson, FOX Sports South and SportSouth
News 2 Graphics, Vince Conti, John Edmonds, Kinsey Grigsby, WKRN
Pat Summitt: Road to 1000, Adam Shumaker, FOX Sports South and SportSouth
Shan Graphic Arts Composite, Shan Zhong, WRAL

LIGHTING
Crossroads Charlotte, Randy Fulp, Brett Ray, Emulsion Arts/WTVI
Levon Helm: Ramble at the Ryman, Bob Peterson, High Five Entertainment
Lighting Up with Kip, Alexander Wakefield Gordon, III, WHBQ

MUSIC COMPOSER/ARRANGER
El Greco to Velazquez - Art During the Reign of Philip III, Fred Story, Concentrix Music and Sound Design
Hometown Stories - The Greek-Americans of Charlotte, Fred Story, Concentrix Music and Sound Design
I Am a Man, Scott Bomar, Deanie Parker, Running Pony Productions/Old Bridge Media/Memphis Tourism Foundation/Electraphonic Recording
Mother Goose Club, Robby LeDoux, J. Z. Barrell, Hudson Soundlab
Re-Thinking Church, Holly Heise, Leonard Wolf, Wolf Music and Sound Design

PHOTOGRAPHY – NEWS
Andy Benton Stories, Andy Benton, WCNC
Big Daddy Platter of News, Bradford Ingram, WGHP
Camerography 101, Geoffrey Levine, WRAL
D-Roll, Derric Curran, WHBQ
Nelson's News, Ted Nelson, WTVF

PHOTOGRAPHY – PROGRAMS
$5 Cover Amplified: What It Is and Valerie June , Alan Spearman, The Commercial Appeal
Duck River, William Bezubic III, Running Pony Productions
ESPN Gameday, Patrick Slattery, Vanderbilt University News Service
Puppet Masters. Michael Burke, UNC-TV
Tennessee's Wild Side: Short Springs Wildflowers, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center

PHOTOGRAPHY - SHORT FORM
JWalker Pictures, Jerry L. Walker, WTVF
SEC Basketball Close Featuring David Cook, David Barringer, Alex Farmartino, David Svenson, Jeremy Williams, Raycom Sports

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
1st Public Mobile DTV Venture, Tony W. Gupton, Peter Sockett, Frederick Kelly, Sam Matheny, Thomas G. Crowder, Matthew Brandes, Jay Adrick, Bill Weinel, WRAL
FOX 13 Home for the Holidays in HD, David Brant, Patrick McGinnis, Scott Prentice, WHBQ
Levon Helm: Ramble at the Ryman, Nicholas E. Dugger, High Five Entertainment/TNDV Television

WRITER – NEWS
27% Unemployment & A Taste of Freedom, Christopher J. Bundgaard, WKRN
Breach of Trust, Wendy Halloran, Denise Vickers, WHNT
Nick Kenney Composite, Nick Kenney, WMC
Scott Mason Stories, Scott Mason, WRAL
Tang's Tall Tales Three, Jeffrey Tang, WTVF

WRITER – PROGRAMS
Duck River, T. Leigh Starns, Running Pony Productions
Finishing Well, Emily Pearce, Vanderbilt University News Service
Footprints of a King, Steve Crump, WTVI
I Am a Man, John Hubbell, Running Pony Productions/Old Bridge Media/Memphis Tourism Foundation
Man & Mammoth, Tom Earnhardt, Natural World Productions
Mother Goose Club, Harry Jho, Sona Jho, Sockeye Media
Ruptured Brain Aneurysm, Stephanie Crayton, UNC Health Care

WRITER - SHORT FORM
An Incredibly Delightful Writing Composite, Anita Normanly, WRAL
Go Green with Dr. Gangrene - Werewolf of Nashville, Cameron McCasland, McCasland Releasing
Kip's Tips: Handy Hints for the Digitally Disenfranchised, Kip Campbell, Len Faulconer, UNC-TV

INTERACTIVITY
Crossroads Charlotte: Fortress, Robin Grey, Joanne Hock, Kay Thompson, Tracy Russ, Karen Collins, Emulsion Arts
Mother Goose Club Website, Harry Jho, Sona Jho, Sockeye Media
The Oxford Presidential Debate on MyFoxMemphis.com, May-Lin Biggs, William C. Dotson, III, Jeramia Trotter, WHBQ

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24th EMMY AWARDS PRESS RELEASE,

24th ANNUAL MIDSOUTH EMMY® NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED AT BMI PARTY
Darrell Waltrip to Host Live Emmy® Awards Telecast;
The Freedom Forum to Receive Governors’ Award

The Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced the nominations for the 24th Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy® Awards at a reception November 20 at BMI headquarters on Music Row

BMI’s Senior Director of Media Licensing, Mason Hunter, who serves on the board of governors of the academy, hosted the nomination party. He announced that NASCAR champion Darrell Waltrip will host the live telecast of the 24th Midsouth Emmy® Awards on January 30, 2010, at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. In addition to his spectacular racing career, Darrell played himself in the Will Ferrell movie Talladega Nights, and was the voice of Darrell Cartrip in the hit Pixar movie Cars. For his work as a sports commentator, Darrell was nominated for a national Emmy® Award for Outstanding Sports Personality.

NATAS National Trustee Gene Policinski of The First Amendment Center announced the inductees into the Silver Circle honoring quarter-century contributions to broadcasting. From Greensboro, North Carolina, anchor Sandra Hughes, who has been with WFMY since 1972. and Jerry Hayes, anchor at WHNT in Huntsville, Alabama, who began his career in 1978, will be honored.

NATAS National Trustee Phillip L. Bell announced that the Freedom Forum will be the recipient of the Governors’ Award for lifetime achievement, the academy’s highest honor. The Freedom Forum is a nonpartisan foundation that champions the first amendment as a cornerstone of democracy, and is the main funder of the operations of the Newseum, the First Amendment Center, and their television series, Speaking Freely. The First Amendment Center is housed in the John Seigenthaler Center at Vanderbilt University.

Chapter President Ellen Jones Pryor of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts expressed appreciation to BMI, Nic Dugger of Tennessee Digital Video, James Stevens, 615 Music Productions, and announcer, Beth Tucker Womack, for the nomination production. Ms. Pryor also announced that AT&T will be the primary telecast sponsor for the 11th year. She said the academy deeply appreciates the remote television facilities being provided by Camp Digital, with additional support from VER: Video Equipment Rentals. She announced that The Hilton Downtown Nashville will once again be the academy headquarters for the gala.

This year’s entries resulted in nominations for 61 companies in 68 categories. The complete list of nominations and company totals follows. The ballots, tabulated by Jennifer Lane of Decosimo Vaden, were judged by the Northwest Chapter of NATAS, based in Seattle, Washington.

For further information: Geneva Brignolo, 615-259-0040, emmynash@aol.com

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is a non-profit, professional organization dedicated to fostering excellence in television. The academy has 19 chapters with 15,000 members nationwide. The Nashville/Midsouth Region encompasses the States of North Carolina (except Asheville) and Tennessee, and northern Alabama.
 
PRODUCING COMPANY NOMINATIONS
WTVF 32
WRAL 31
WHBQ 24
WKRN 13
WSMV 11
Running Pony Productions 10
WMC 10
WCNC 9
WGHP 8
WRAZ 8
WZTV 8
Bohan Advertising 7
Fox Soorts South 7
Raycom Sports 7
Sockeye Media 6
The Renaissance Center 6
UNC-TV 6
WTVI 6
WBTV 5
WREG 5
WSOC 5
High Five Entertainment 4
Vanderbilt University News Service 4
Nashville Public Television 3
Sunrise Entertainment 3
WATE 3
WHNT 3
Byrdword Productions 2
Concentrix Music and Sound Design 2
Emulsion Arts 2
Fourth Rule Films 2
Janet's Planet 2
Minnow Media 2
Natural World Productions 2
Strength Readiness Support Center 2
The Commercial Appeal 2
WAFF 2
WFMY 2
WKNO 2
WPTY 2
WTVD 2
WVLT 2
Beery Media 1
CBC New Media 1
Deja View Media 1
DoubleJay Creative 1
Hudson Soundlab 1
McCasland Releasing 1
Mindflow Media 1
NATAS Nashville/Midsouth 1
Retirement Living TV 1
The Lampo Group 1
The Tombras Group 1
UNC Health Care 1
Vintage Flick 1
WBIR 1
WCCB 1
WNCN 1
Wolf Music & Sound Design 1
WTCI 1
WXII 1
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EMMY USAGE-TRADEMARK POLICY,

Policy Regarding the Use of: Trademarks, EMMY® statue(ette), and Clips from EMMY® Award Shows

I. TRADEMARK USE GUIDELINES
A. Consistent and Proper Use
The trademarks of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, also known as National Television Academy (“NATAS/NTA”) are valuable assets. Proper and consistent use of such trademarks is vital so that those marks maintain their value and NATAS/NTA may protect its legal rights in ownership of those marks.
Therefore, please familiarize yourself with, and abide by, the following use guidelines. Always follow these rules when using the National Television Academy trademarks:
1. Use trademarks as adjectives. Trademarks are adjectives, not nouns or verbs, and should always be followed by a noun.
Correct: Emmy® award
Emmy® award ceremony
Incorrect: The Emmy’s.
2. Never use trademarks in plural or possessive form.
Correct: Two Emmy® statuettes.
Incorrect: Two Emmy’s
3. Set trademarks apart from other words or the nouns they modify. Methods of distinguishing a mark include printing it in capitals, italicized text, using bold faced text, title case (providing that the surrounding text is not also in title case) and/or putting the mark in “quotation marks.”
Examples: the EMMY® award ceremony
the Emmy® award ceremony
the “Emmy” ® award ceremony
4. Never use any other trademark in conjunction with a National Television Academy trademark without express authorization from the National Television Academy.
5. Use the appropriate trademark symbol in the proper place and give proper attribution. While it is not always practical or feasible to use the appropriate trademark notice with every use of a word mark, try to use the appropriate symbol whenever the mark is displayed prominently and in the first occurrence of the mark in text on each page, including web pages. If the trademark consists of a logo or a design, the appropriate trademark notice should appear with every use of the logo or design.
B. Appropriate Symbols
® = registered trademark (a mark used in connection with goods) or service mark (a mark used in connection with services)
TM = trademark ownership claimed but mark is not registered
SM = service mark ownership claimed but mark is not registered
Correct: Emmy® Awards
SILVER CIRCLE® Program
C. Disclaimer
Acknowledge National Television Academy’s ownership of its trademarks. The following language should be included on all websites and materials that display National Television Academy trademarks:
“Use of the trademarks and service marks of the National Television Academy (“NATAS/NTA”), including the mark EMMY®, requires the prior express written permission of the National Television
Academy.”
D. Fair Use of Emmy Trademark
1. Note that while permission is required to use the National Television Academy trademarks in connection with products and services, others are allowed to make “fair use” of the mark to identify the
products and services of the National Television Academy. For example, a winning television show, may fairly advertise that it has won an EMMY® award.
E. Alteration
1. Never alter National Television Academy trademarks, including designs, colors, etc. without express written authorization from the National Television Academy.
F. Inappropriate Use
1. Never use National Television Academy trademarks in jokes, puns or in a derogatory fashion.
2. Notify the National Television Academy of any improper use of any of its trademarks. Report as much detail as possible about the misuse, including the name of the party, contact information, and copies or photographs of the potential misuse.
G. Subject to Change
1. Always follow all applicable marketing and legal guidelines. From time to time, the National Television Academy may modify these written guidelines making it imperative to review all updates. At all times, you are subject to the prevailing guidelines currently in effect.

II. PROTECTION OF THE EMMY® STATUE(ETTE)
A. The Emmy® statue(ette) is the property of and all rights are reserved by the National Television Academy;
B. The Emmy® statue(ette) may not be reproduced or used in any commercial manner unless permitted by the National Television Academy, it being understood that possession of the same is solely for the benefit of the recipient and the recipient’s heirs or successors in interest.
C. If a recipient or the recipient’s heir or successor in interest proposes to sell or otherwise dispose of the Emmy® statue(ette), such persons shall be obligated to return the statue(ette) to the National Television Academy which will retain the same in storage in memory of the recipient.

III. USE OF EXCERPTS FROM EMMY® AWARDS SHOW
A. Clips from EMMY® Awards Shows may be used in news broadcasts to report on said awards shows. The policies governing such uses are as follows:
1. The clips are to be used only in the segment of the broadcaster’s news program that covers the EMMY® Awards ceremony.
2. Aggregate length of all clips in a news program is not to exceed one (1) minute.
3. Clips are not to be aired as a part of a news program in any time zone until completion of the airing of the EMMY® Awards shows in that time zone.
4. The broadcaster must assume all responsibility for obtaining union and/or music clearances, and must secure the consent of the network which broadcasts the show. The broadcaster must indemnify NATAS/NTA and ATAS against any claims. See Exhibit A (attached).
B. Other Use of Excerpts:
1. Clips from EMMY® Awards shows may be used in news stories (in addition to those covered under section A above) which relate to a recipient of an award upon his or her death.
1. Clips from EMMY® Awards shows may be used in retrospectives and similar shows dealing with the careers of recipients.
3. Clips from EMMY® Awards shows may be used in other awards shows.
4. Clips may not be used in entertainment-type shows.
C. Programs other than current news shows in which clips are used may be broadcast and rebroadcast without limitation. NATAS/NTA and ATAS would also agree that, in most cases, it is proper to allow usage of those clips in after-market applications, e.g., a retrospective of an artist which is first broadcast on television then released on home video.
D. Permission for use of clips (in shows other than news) must be obtained in each instance from NATAS/NTA and ATAS. The party seeking permission is responsible for securing any necessary union or music clearances. A copy of the standard form used in connection with EMMY® Awards Shows for this purpose is attached as Exhibit B. Please note that in the form, in some cases where NATAS/NTA or ATAS is dealing with a recognized company, there is an alternate paragraph that contains an indemnity against union and music claims, as opposed to a provision requiring the proposed user to obtain the clearances.
E. Use of Excerpts in Commercials:
1. It is felt that this type of use would dilute the value of the EMMY®. Accordingly, unless the Board of Trustees were to grant a waiver in a specific instance, excerpts from EMMY® Awards Shows may not be used in commercials.

IV. USE OF THE EMMY® NAME AND EMMY® STATUE(ETTE) IN ADVERTISING AND PUBLICITY
A. EMMY® Winners:
1. EMMY® Winners may at any time refer in advertising and publicity to the fact that they have won an EMMY® and may, for one year after the Award is won, use a replica of the statue(ette) in such advertising.
2. NATAS/NTA and ATAS are currently receiving requests for use of the statue(ette) on video cassettes of EMMY®-winning Shows. It is the policy of NATAS/NTA and ATAS that the statue(ette) may not be used on video cassette/disc copies of EMMY®-winning Shows. However, reference may be made in the printed material on the cover to the effect that the show is an EMMY® winner.
B. Sponsors of EMMY® shows:
1. In the past, we have allowed sponsors of EMMY® Awards Shows to use a copy of the EMMY® Statuette and the EMMY® name in both print and point-of-sale advertising, provided that (i) the advertising occurred at or about the time of broadcast of the Show, and (ii) the advertising made specific reference to their sponsorship of the Show.
C. Advertiser’s Use of Clips from Shows in Advertising:
1. Unless the Board of Trustees were to grant a waiver, clips from an EMMY® show (i.e., a clip showing someone winning an EMMY® award or a clip of someone wearing the advertiser’s product at the Show) may not be used in advertising.
D. Network / Station Uses:
1. Networks and local television stations may use the EMMY® name and EMMY® statue(ette) with appropriate copyright and trademark notices in connection with promotional announcements for programs
which, in fact, have won the EMMY® award, as long as it is done within one (1) year after the Award has been won and not thereafter.
2. Networks and local stations may announce the fact that they have won national EMMY® Awards or regional EMMY® Awards, as the case may be, by showing replicas of the statue(ette) and may refer to the name of NATAS/NTA or ATAS. Appropriate copyright and trademark notices should be affixed to any replicas of the statue(ette) as outlined above.

V. OTHER USES OF THE EMMY® NAME OR THE EMMY® STATUE(ETTE)
A. In Television Programs or Movies:
1. The EMMY® statue(ette) may be used as a prop in a program or movie as long as the use is not in any way derogatory to the statue(ette) and that the statue(ette) is an incidental part of the same.
B. In Published Works, etc.:
1. The EMMY® name and/or statue(ette) may be used in connection with printed works provided that the work is of an educational or informational nature, and the reference to the EMMY® name or statuette is
non-derogatory and is reasonably related to the purpose of the published work.
2. EMMY® winners are permitted to use pictures of themselves receiving the EMMY® award in personal resumes and self-promotion.
3. Pictures of EMMY® winners receiving their statue(ette)s may also be used in printed materials featuring biographical material about such winner, provided that the use is reasonably related to the biographical material, e.g., use of a picture of an EMMY® winner in a souvenir program of a stage play in which the EMMY® winner appears, use in biographical articles about the winner, etc.
4. We have received requests from corporate EMMY® winners to use replicas of the EMMY® on stationery and the like. Although EMMY® winners may make textual reference to the fact that they have won an EMMY® award, they may not use replicas of the EMMY® statue(ette) for this purpose.
C. Merchandising:
1. The EMMY® name and EMMY® statue(ette) may not be used in connection with merchandising items except with prior approval of the Board of Trustees. If any proposed merchandising uses are to be approved, that proposal must be coordinated with NATAS/NTA and ATAS.

EXHIBIT A
Dated:________________ Re: Use of Clips from the _________________________ Show
Gentlemen / Ladies:
You have requested permission to use excerpts (the “Clips”) from the broadcast by____(the network)________ of the ________________________Show.
Network has no objection to your use of the Clips, subject to the following terms and conditions:
You agree that the Clips will be used only in the segment of your program covering the Show and for no other purpose whatsoever without the written consent of the Network.
You agree that the aggregate length of all Clips used will not exceed one minute.
You agree that the Clips will not be aired as part of your program in any time zone, until completion of the airing of the Show in that time zone.
You acknowledge that as between Network and you, Network and/or the National Television Academy (NATAS/NTA) is the sole owner of all copyrights and exclusive rights in and to the Clips, and you agree to give Network and NATAS/NTA a credit for its grant of permission to use the Clips.
You will obtain all required authorization, clearances, consents, and releases necessary for your use of the Clips, including without limitation, consents from NATAS/NTA, from all performers and persons who rendered services in connection with the Clips, from all persons who appear recognizably in the Clips, as well as consents from all unions and guilds to the extent any of their respective members performed in or in connection with the Clips, including without limitation, AMF, AFTRA, SAG, DAGA and WGA. If music is in the Clips, you will also obtain music synchronization licenses from the owners of the music.
You agree to defend, indemnity and hold harmless NATAS/NTA, Network, its parent, subsidiary and affiliated companies, its owned and affiliated stations, and each of their respective officers, directors, agents, representatives, employees, successors and assigns, from and against any and all losses, actions, claims, demands, liabilities, damages or costs (including reasonable attorney’s fees) of any kind or nature whatsoever which may arise out of or result from your use of the Clips or your breach of this agreement.
You agree that NATAS/NTA and the Network has made no warranty or representation whatsoever, express or implied, with respect to the Clips or your use of them.
Very truly yours,
NETWORK
By:___________________________________________
ACCEPTED AND AGREED:
______________________________________________
(Name of Company)
By:___________________________________________
Title:__________________________________________

EXHIBIT B
Dated:___________________________
National Television Academy
111 West 57th Street, Suite 600
New York, NY 10019
Gentlepersons:
We desire to use a clip, sixty (60) seconds or less, from the _________________ Annual Emmy® Awards presentation featuring______________ accepting _________________ Award for “______________” in connection with the production and broadcast of ____________________ program, which is scheduled to be aired on _______________.
By your signature below, you consent to the use of the clip subject to the following:
A. We agree to obtain a written consent from_______________ and furnish you with a copy of the same, unless waived by _____________.
A. *ALTERNATE CHOICE * We understand that the use of the clips may require clearance from the networks that originally broadcast the clips and/or from unions representing persons whose services were rendered in connection with the clips. Our determination not to obtain clearances and/or our failure to obtain the same for any reason shall in no event excuse us from our agreement to indemnify you as set forth in subparagraph B. that immediately follows.
B. We agree to obtain all other consents and releases necessary for the use of the clip, including but not limited to, consents where required from those who appear recognizably in the clip or the results and proceeds of whose services are utilized in the clip, as well as from unions including AMF, AFTRA, SAG, DGA, and WGA. If music is in the clip, we shall also obtain music synchronization licenses from the owners of the music, if necessary, and consents from those performing music in the clip. We will furnish you, upon request, with copies of all such consents.
C. We also agree to indemnify and hold you harmless from and against any and all losses, actions, claims, demands, liabilities, damages or costs of any kind or nature whatsoever (including reasonable attorney’s fees) which may arise out of or in connection with our use of the clip or our breach of this agreement.
D. We agree that the clip shall be used only in connection with the aforementioned “________________” program and for no other purpose. We have no obligation to broadcast the clip.
E. We acknowledge that between us, you are the sole owner of all copyrights and exclusive rights in and to the clip.
Very truly yours,
_______________________________________
(Name of Company)
By: ____________________________________
Title:___________________________________
ACCEPTED AND APPROVED:
NATIONAL TELEVISION ACADEMY
By:_____________________________________
Peter Price, President and CEO

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SILVER CIRCLE NOMINATION FORM,

The Silver Circle is open to all persons who began their television careers at least 25 years ago, either in a performing, creative, technical, or administrative role within the industry, or in a peripheral area directly related to television, such as commercial production, journalism, or education, etc. Candidates must also have made a significant contribution to Midsouth television for a least part of their 25-year career.

THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES
SILVER CIRCLE NOMINATION FORM

Candidates or their sponsors are to submit a nomination form by September 1, 2009, for evaluation by the Silver Circle Committee, whose recommendations will be presented to the Board of Governors. The Honoree will be notified by November 20.2009. The induction will take place at the 24th Annual Emmy Awards on January 30, 2010. In preparation for the ceremony, sponsors/honorees will provide a recent portrait photograph, an historical photograph, and a two-minute videotape or DVD-R of his/her career including a retrospective interview.


Name of Honoree______________________________________________________________

Nominee Address______________________________________________________________

City____________________________________________State_________Zip______________

Telephone/Day__________________________Telephone/Evening________________________

Nominee e-mail_________________________________________________________________

Date & Place of First Employment in Television_______________________________________

Years of Employment in Television: From____________ To____________

Places of Employment in Television________________________________

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

Briefly State Significant Contributions to Television___________________

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

Present Occupation______________________________________________

Contributions to the community___________________________________________________







Please submit photo and biography in narrative or resume form with application, along with a list of historical pictures, films or tapes, which are available.

The historical videotape will be produced by _____________________________

Telephone___________________ e-mail__________________________

Submitted by ______________________________________________________

Company_________________________________________________________

Address___________________________________________________________

City________________________________ State____________ Zip__________

Telephone___________________________ e-mail________________________



DEADLINE SEPEMBER 1, 2009
RETURN NOMINATION FORM AND CURRENT PHOTOGRAPH TO:

SILVER CIRCLE NOMINATIONS
NATAS NASHVILLE
161 RAINS AVENUE
NASHVILLE, TN 37203
615-259-0040
emmynash@aol.com

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MIDSOUTH STUDENT AWARD WINNERS 2009,

MIDSOUTH STUDENT TELEVISION AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE 2009
HONORING HIGH SCHOOL PRODUCTION

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

WINNER: Silhouettes, Jessica Trevett, Ravenwood High School, Advisor: Sara Sweitzer
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Procrastination, Ryman Lloyd, Nashville School of the Arts, Advisor: John Newsom
The Beaux' Strategem, Brittany Flaherty, Justin Thurmond, Germantown High School, Advisors: Frank Bluestein, Ted Beasley, Jordan Liles

CRAFT ACHIEVEMENT

WINNER: Hoag Composite, Jon Hoag, Germantown High School, Advisors: Frank Bluestein, Ted Beasley, Bobby Ramsay
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Beatbox, Dillon Wing, Keithen Petty, Tanner Sharp, Wes Barrett, Centennial High School, Advisor: Dawn Marek
Devon Henry – Editor, Devon Henry, Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School, Advisor: Steven O'Neill

LONG FORM

WINNER: Black Friday, Jake Beitter, Nashville School of the Arts, Advisor: John Newsom
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Battle of the Stones River, Zachary Lovejoy, Ryman Lloyd, Nashville School of the Arts, Advisor: John Newsom
Dear Mr. President: Education in America, Malcolm Springer, Michelle Potts, Ravenwood High School, Advisor: Sara Sweitzer
Kyle and Conner Show, Morgan Gregory, Marc Torrence, Conner Brennan, Kyle Merriman, Centennial High School, Advisor: Dawn Marek

NEWS

WINNER: Mornin Rawr, Ethan Alvey, Steven Baird, Preston Barnes, Matt Cheathman, Phillip Gardner, Morgan Gregory, Denver Harris, Andrew Hunter, Layne Meltzer, Ryan Mitchell, Zack Park, Bryce Petty, Matt Seybold, Marc Torrence, Dillon Wing, Centennial High School, Advisor: Dawn Marek
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Behind Closed Doors, Kaitlyn Huckaby, Kelly Rash, Debbie Love, Amber Atkins, Jocelyn Madsen, Cheyanne Kyle, Kathleen High, Columbia Central High School, Advisor: Dan Bell
Indy News, Tyler Myers, Cody Muller, Chad Cordell, Ryan Pittman, Chancey Smithson, Kevin Wood, Joey Lachance, Cory Szatkowski, Independence High School, Advisor: Matt Balzer

PUBLIC AFFAIRS

WINNER: Skills USA Chili Dinner Commercial, Jonathan Wilson, Ernie Overton, Lianna Mizell, Independence High School, Advisor: Matt Balzer
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Stars Commercial, Jonathan Wilson, Ernie Overton, Independence High School, Advisor: Matt Balzer
Texting & Driving, Kevin Wood, Independence High School, Advisor: Matt Balzer

SPORTS

WINNER: Red Devil Contender, Kyle Dutton, Liam Street, Germantown High School, Advisors: Frank Bluestein, Ted Beasley, Jordan Liles, Bobby Ramsay
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Season Lost, Lessons Gained, Luke Driver, Germantown High School, Advisors: Frank Bluestein, Ted Beasley, Jordan Liles
Sports Composite, Luke Driver, Kyle Dutton, Will Walker, Germantown High School, Advisors: Frank Bluestein, Ted Beasley, Bobby Ramsay
The Coaches Show, Trevor Hyssong, Zack Park, Morgan Gregory, Jacob Estrada, Marc Torrence, Phillip Gardner, Centennial High School, Advisor: Dawn Marek

WRITING

WINNER: Real Teachers of Genius, Taylor Leslie, Enloe High School Eagle Productions, Advisor: Curry Leslie
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
Project Based Learning, Pat Mushid, Brooke Gooding, Garrett Fitzgerald, Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School, Advisor: Steven O'Neill
TWIGS of LeBonheur, Jocelynn Ramiah, Germantown High School, Advisors: Frank Bluestein, Ted Beasley

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STUDENT AWARDS RELEASE 2009,

2009 REGIONAL STUDENT TELEVISION
AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE

Nashville, Tenn. – The Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented its 7th Annual Regional Student Television Awards for Excellence honoring outstanding high school production on Thursday, April 16, 2009, at the Regions bank headquarters in Nashville. Senior Vice President LISA HARLESS welcomed 120 teachers and students, and television professionals to the event.

A seminar was held in the morning session, featuring the 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF NASA, presented by CLIFTON HUNT, NewsChannel 5 Network.. NASA provided DVD sets of their history for the students. DR. RICK CHAPPELL, Director of the Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory, presented a lecture called EXPLORERS AMONG US, encouraging the media to find and celebrate modern day explorers, identified as scientists, engineers and medical researchers.

Luncheon was sponsored by MAGGIANO’S LITTLE ITALY.

The awards ceremony was hosted by LELAN STATOM, Host of Talk of the Town and Meteorologist at Newschannel 5 WTVF.

Awards were presented in seven categories by leaders in the broadcasting industry.
PHILLIP L. BELL, Earnhardt Pirkle, Inc., and NATAS National Trustee
STACY CASE, Anchor, WZTV Fox 17
BETH CURLEY, President & CEO, NPT: Nashville Public Television
ANNE HOLT, Anchor, WKRN News 2
ELLEN JONES PRYOR, Frist Center for the Visual Arts and President NATAS/Nashville
AARON SOLOMON, Anchor, WSMV Channel 4
STEVEN WOMACK, Chair, Watkins Film School

From the 68 entries, which were judged by television professionals, the honors went to:
Columbia Central High School – 1 Honorable Mention
Centennial High School - 1 Winner and 3 Honorable Mentions
Germantown High School (Memphis, TN) – 2 Winners and 4 Honorable Mentions
Nashville School of the Arts – 1 Winner and 2 Honorable Mentions
Southeast Raleigh Magnet High School (Raleigh, NC) – 2 Honorable Mentions
Independence High School – 1 Winner and 3 Honorable Mentions
Ravenwood High School – 1 Winner and 1 Honorable Mention
Enloe High School (Raleigh, NC) – 1 Winner

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SILVER CIRCLE,

THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES
MIDSOUTH REGION SILVER CIRCLE

The Silver Circle is open to all persons who began their television careers at least 25 years ago, either in a performing, creative, technical, or administrative role within the industry, or in a peripheral area directly related to television, such as commercial production, journalism, or education, etc. Candidates must also have made a significant contribution to Midsouth television for a least part of their 25-year career. Silver Circle members are inducted at the Emmy Awards.

MEMBERS OF THE SILVER CIRCLE

Karen Adams
Larry R. Bearden
Fred Blackman
Bob Bomar
Rich Brenner
Larry Brinton
Jack Callaghan
Judson G. Collins
Dic Condra
Gary Conrad
Reynard A. Corley
Edwin Wilson Craig
Don Dare
Frank Deal
Guilford Dudley, Jr.
Jack Eaton
Cullen Ferguson
Charlie Gaddy
Adrian Gibson
Jane Dowden Grams
Stuart Grasberg
Ed Greaney
Don Griffin
Tom Griscom
Bill Hall
Dick Hawley
Chuck Hemrick
Hope Hines
Anne Holt
Ralph Hucaby
Dana Kaye
Evelyn Keller
Thomas H. Kennemer
Lee William Kinard, Jr.
Fred Kirby
Charles Lewis
Keith Lowhorne
Loonis McGlohon
Lee Meredith
Bernie Mintz
Bob Mueller
Charlie Orr
Clyde G. Payne
Charlie Scott
Aaron Shelton
Robert Shepherd
Jim Stanley
Robert Stoldal
Tom Suiter
C. J. Underwood
Bill Williams
Richard M. Wright

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PUBLICATIONS,

The National Academy publishes a newsletter and the professional journal, Television Quarterly, which are available online at emmyonline.org.

The Nashville/Midsouth chapter publishes a monthly electronic newsletter, NATASNEWS

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SCHOLARSHIPS,

NATAS/VANDERBILT PROFESSIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TO POYNTER

The Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has joined with Vanderbilt University to offer the NATAS/Vanderbilt Professional Scholarship to Poynter. The Poynter Institute is a school dedicated to teaching and inspiring journalists and media leaders. It promotes excellence and integrity in the practice of craft and in the practical leadership of successful businesses. It stands for a journalism that informs citizens and enlightens public discourse. The award of $1,000 will be given to the first media professional working in the Midsouth Region (States of North Carolina and Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama) who is accepted to Poynter and has applied to NATAS Nashville between September 1, 2005 and August 30, 2006. To apply for the scholarship, submit an application form to Poynter, and send an e-mail notification to emmynash@aol.com, with your name, title, company, address, phone number, e-mail address, and the dates/title of the seminar. Application forms are available at poynter.org.

JOHN CANNON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

The Foundation of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will award one $40,000 college scholarship to a high school student planning to pursue a career in television or a related field. The JOHN CANNON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP is open to any graduating high school senior planning to major in communications at a four-year college or university. Applications must be postmarked by December 12, 2005 For more information and a link to application forms, go to http://www.emmyonline.org/emmy/scholarship.html

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23rd MIDSOUTH EMMY® AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED 11/21/08,

MIDSOUTH REGIONAL EMMY® AWARDS
23RD ANNUAL NOMINATIONS
Compiled by THE VADEN GROUP, PC, CPA’S

NEWS EXCELLENCE
Action News 5, Tammy Phillips, Tracey Rogers, WMC
NewsChannel 5 Network, Sandy Boonstra, Mike Cutler, WTVF
WCNC, Mary Alvarez, WCNC
WRAL-TV, Rick Gall, WRAL
WSMV-TV Channel 4 News, Matthew Hilk, WSMV

NEWSCAST/EVENING
Channel 4 News at 6:00: A 32-year Scoop, Christy Brown, Matthew Hilk, WSMV
Damn It's Hot!, Rhonda Roberts, Ken Smith, WZTV
Killer Tornadoes, Matt Peace, WPTY
Marcia's Murder Solved?, Rhona Roberts, Ken Smith, WZTV
NewsChannel 5 at 6, Jamie Berry, Vicki Yates, WTVF
WCNC News at 11, Melody Taylor, WCNC

NEWSCAST/DAYTIME
Channel 4 News Today: Killer Tornadoes, Christy Brown, Sara Dorsey, Nickie Jennings, Maurice Miller, Aaron Solomon, Holly Thompson, WSMV
News 2 at 4, Alison Coe, Bob Mueller, Matthew Zelkind, WKRN
Newschannel 5 This Morning Trail of Tornadoes, Kelly Broadway, Alison Butler, Amy Watson, WTVF
Tennessee Tragedy, Molly Day, Jennifer Johnson, Tom Randles, WSMV

NEWSCAST /WEEKEND
NewsChannel 5 This Morning, Clay Farrar, Jennifer Kraus, WTVF
Shooting for San Antonio, Rae Lyn Hartley, WPTY
WRAL News at 11 "Ocean Isle Fire", Kelcey Carlson, Ken Smith, Martha Woodward, WRAL
WRAL News at 11 "Wind and Fire", Dan Bowens, Kelcey Carlson, Kim Deaner, Ken Smith, Martha Woodward, WRAL

SPOT NEWS
Let Me Smoke It, Ted Nelson, Amy Rao, WTVF
Plane Crash, Michelle Boudin, WCNC
Ripped Apart, Richard DeVayne, Frankie Gunnell, WCNC

BREAKING NEWS
Fugitive Manhunt, Erin Steinbruchel, WKRN
Police Chase, Mary Alvarez, WCNC
SEC Basketball - Tornado Coverage, David Barringer, Gary Clem, Alex Farmartino, Roger Roebuck, Raycom Sports
WREG - Severe Weather Coverage, Jim Jaggers, Tim Simpson, WREG

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORT - WITHIN 24 HOURS
Downtown Wayfinding, Frank Graff, WNCN
Fire Forges Faith, Mike McCarthy, WVLT
Real Gun, Fake Gun, Cam Cornelius, John Dunn, WZTV
Second Harvest, Ted Nelson, LaCheryl Tucker, WTVF
Twins, Baby!, Scott Mason, Tom Normanly, WRAL

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORT - NO TIME LIMIT
Finally Home, Andy Benton, Mike Redding, WCNC
I Might Say…, Amy Rao, WTVF
Life of a Fighter, Beau Fleenor, Amy Napier Viteri, WKRN
Men at Work?, Cam Cornelius, Scott Couch, Brad Pfranger, WZTV
Nanny Cam, Dan Bowens, Chad Flowers, Amanda Lamb, WRAL
Prayer and Medicare, Ben Hall, Iain Montgomery, Bryan Staples, Kevin Wisniewski, WTVF

CONTINUING COVERAGE - WITHIN 24 HOURS
Eve Carson Murder, Rick Gall, WRAL
News2 Tornado Coverage, Bob Mueller, Matthew Zelkind, WKRN
Tennessee Tragedy, Matthew Hilk, WSMV
WGHP - May Tornadoes, Karen Koutsky, WGHP

CONTINUING COVERAGE - NO TIME LIMIT
13 and Pregnant, Julie Luck, Chris Weaver, WGHP
Lee High School Bus Crash: 1 Year Later, Kanobia Blackman, Chris Chapman, Liz Hurley, Amanda Jarrett, WAFF
Service and Sacrifice, Laura Faber, Brian Hallett, Ken Smith, WZTV

SERIOUS FEATURE NEWS REPORT
Bikers Against Child Abuse, Nick Beres, Ted Nelson, WTVF
Implementation #35, Richard Adkins, Bruce Mildwurf, WRAL
Jail Babies, Jeff Tang, WTVF
Marty, Scott Mason, WRAL
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep, Jeff Davidson, Anne Holt, WKRN
School Survivor, Iain Montgomery, Amy Watson, WTVF

SERIOUS FEATURE NEWS SERIES
Giving Jane Doe a Face, Beau Fleenor, Erin Steinbruchel, WKRN
Milton's Dream, Iain Montgomery, Barry Simmons, WTVF
Miracle Child, Brent Frazier, Nathan Sharkey, WTVF
Secret Prayer, Barbara Gibbs, WTVD
The Border, Ray Arzate, Christine Maddela, WKRN

LIGHT FEATURE NEWS REPORT
April Fools!, Terry Bulger, WSMV
Bail Bondsman, Ted Nelson, LaCheryl Tucker, WTVF
Devil's Tramping Ground, Scott Mason, WRAL
Fox 13 BBQ Man, Derric Curran, Tom Dees, Pansy Hall, WHBQ
Fox 13 Bikini Lawn Care, Derric Curran, Tom Dees, WHBQ
Kindred Spirit, Scott Mason, WRAL
Snowglobe Buy, Frank Graff, WNCN

LIGHT FEATURE NEWS SERIES
A Day in the Life, Robert Brown, John Dunn, WZTV
Channel 4's Cool Schools, Thomas Davis, Aaron Solomon, Josh Winstead, WSMV
Dave's Diamond Darlings, Dave Staley, WTVC
In Your Dreams, Laura Faber, Brad Pfranger, WZTV
Tiger Time Lawn Care, Andrew Douglas, Mike Hamlet, WMC
Travelin' Tennessee, Miranda Cohen, Bob Shrader, WZTV

INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
Ice Cream Man, Jeni Diprizio, WPTY
Newschannel 5 Investigates 911, Bryan Staples, Phil Williams, WTVF
Stories of Abuse, Bryan Staples, Phil Williams, Kevin Wisniewski, WTVF
WCNC Investigates: Broughton Hospital, Ken Shermer, Jeff Sonier, WCNC

BUSINESS/CONSUMER REPORT
An Alarming Failure, Jennifer Kraus, Bryan Staples, Kevin Wisniewski, WTVF
Playing with Fire, Jennifer Kraus, Iain Montgomery, Bryan Staples, Kevin Wisniewski, WTVF
Sickening Slices, John Gray, Kelly Rice, Jeff Sonier, WCNC
Stinky Fish, Anna Crowley, John Gray, Kelly Rice, WCNC

SPECIALTY ASSIGNMENT REPORT
Buried in Antarctica, Jeff Tang, David Willis, WTVF
Deal or Dud, Melissa Painter, Chris Weaver, WGHP
MLK Preparing a Legacy, Ben Watson, WMC
NewsChannel 5 Health Report, Kristin Priesol, Mike Rose, WTVF
USS North Carolina, Richard Adkins, WRAL

JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE - NO TIME LIMIT
Ben Hall: Enterprises, Ben Hall, WTVF
COVERTN, Don Dare, Dave Wignall, WATE
Fox 13 Problem Solvers, Alistair Clark, Scott Madaus, WHBQ
I-Team Composite, Jeremy Finley, Don Mashburn, Zina Bauman, WSMV
The Sanitation Strike, Jeremy Jones, WMC
Untold Stories of a Fading Past, Trent Faris, Molly Grantham, WBTV

NEWS SPECIAL
Changing Lanes: The I-40 Shutdown, Tonja Burk, WBIR
The Sobering Truth: Cyberparenting the MySpace Generation, Molly Grantham, Kim Saxon, WBTV
The Young and the Lawless, Jeremy Finley, Zina Bauman, WSMV

SPORTSCAST
NewsChannel 5 Sports, Eric Yutzy, WTVF
The Sore Hand, Paul Jones, WZTV
WAFF 48 Sports: Women in Race Cars, Michaelene Tetteh, WAFF

SPORTS SEGMENT
A League of Their Own, Andy Benton, Mike Redding, WCNC
A Wish for Chase, Brian McKeegan, Eric Yutzy, WTVF
Cortland Finnegan: Wired for Sound, Jennifer Holt, Dean McCondichie, WZTV
Fox 13 Tiger Practice VIP, Kevin Barbee, Lauren Lee, WHBQ
Skipper, Alex Farmartino, Raycom Sports

SPORTS PROGRAMS/SERIES
Football Saturdays in the South, Dave Barringer, Alex Farmartino, Rob Reichley, Beverly Rumley, Lance Stewart, Jeremy Williams, Raycom Sports
Grizzlies Insider: Year in Review, Patrick Stage, Memphis Grizzlies
It's Our Time, Ernie Freeman, Paul Sloan, Matt Stark, David Stotts, WHBQ
Joe Scott Memories of the Negro Leagues, Pierre Kimsey, WKNO

SPORTS EVENT/GAME
ACC Basketball - Miami at Wake Forest, Erik Barnhart, FSN- South
ACC Baseball Championship - Miami vs. Virginia, Erik Barnhart, FSN- South
Predators vs. Red Wings Playoffs, Terry Crisp, Mitch Jordan, Bob Kohl, Karen Roncelli, Pete Weber, David White, Steve Wrigley, Nashville Predators
Titans on 2 - Titans vs. Packers, Joe Dubin, Lewis Harkness, Greg Logan, Dirk Mooth, WKRN

WEATHERCAST
Goldsboro Storm Damage, Greg Fishel, James A. Ford, Jr., Sloane Heffernan, Stacy Wimmer, WRAL
Heat Wave, Brad Panovich, WCNC
Storm 5 HD Weather: Let It Snow, Kelly Cox, Ron Howes, Charlie Neese, Lelan A. Statom, WTVF
Tennessee Heat Wave, Lisa Spencer, WSMV

DOCUMENTARY/CULTURAL
Beautiful Tennessee: Our Scenic Waterways, Kevin Crane, Matt Emigh, Will Pedigo, Nashville Public Television
Exploring North Carolina: Fossil Fields, Joe Albea, Mark Crews, Tom Earnhardt, Natural World Productions
Live from Graceland, Anna Marie Hartman, Jeremy Jones, WMC

DOCUMENTARY/HISTORICAL
Call of Duty: WWII in the Midsouth, Susan Grissom, WKNO
Heroes from the Valley, Peter G. DeLynn, Shaun Townley, WTCI
Nashville WWII Stories, Matt Emigh, Justin Harvey, Nashville Public Television
Senator No, Chris Frank, John Wilson, UNC-TV

DOCUMENTARY/TOPICAL
CRANK: Darkness on the Edge of Town, Sally Jo Fifer, Todd Jarrell, Mitch Jordan, Tika Laudun, Becky Magura, Two Six Productions/WCTE/ITVS
Dishonorable Deceptions, Bryan Staples, Phil Williams, Kevin Wisniewski, WTVF
Fulfilling the Dream, Jeremy Jones, Ursula Madden, WMC
Taking Initiative: A Look Inside Guilford County, Shannon Vickery, Elizabeth Wilder, UNC-TV
The Other North Carolina, Clay Johnson, WRAL

HISTORIC/CULTURAL PROGRAM/SPECIAL
9/4/1957, Steve Crump, WTVI
Cruising Carolina: The Lower Banks, David M. Dalton, Theresa Rossi Dalton, Blue Water Media
Great Scenic Railway Journeys – Steam, Robert C. Van Camp, Wide Eye Productions
Little Kurdistan, Kevin Crane, Matt Emigh, Will Pedigo, Nashville Public Television
Postcards from Tennessee, Jeff Davidson, Anne Holt, WKRN

ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
Carolina Ballet: Monet Impressions, Bill Hannah, Peter Olafson, UNC-TV
Carolina Traveler: The Lion King, Allison Andrews, Andy Benton, Mike Redding, WCNC
Jumpin' Time, Terry D. Choate, The Crosswind Corporation
New South Crossings, Donna Chavis, Beverly L. Penninger, David Tang, WTVI/Firebird Arts Alliance
World in a Week: The Nashville Film Festival, Demetria Kalodimos, David Sussman, WSMV

MAGAZINE PROGRAM/SPECIAL
Be-Lo Murders, Shaheen R. Syal, WRAZ
Carolina Traveler: Camp CARE, Andy Benton, Mike Redding, WCNC
Tar Heel Traveler #1, Scott Mason, WRAL
Tennessee Crossroads: Smokin', Joe Elmore, Ed Jones, Ken Simington, Nashville Public Television
Tennessee's Wild Side: Fish Tales, Barry Cross, Alan Griggs, Steve Hall, Doug Jackson, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center

MAGAZINE SERIES
Carolina Traveler: Miracle League, Andy Benton, Mike Redding, WCNC
Fingerprints, Victor Frank, Dave McDonald, Linda Midgett, Beverly L. Penninger, Elyse Williams, WTVI
NC Weekend #536, Galen Black, Deborah Holt, Amy Meiggs, Will Mikes, UNC-TV
Our State: Somerset Place, Jim Bramlett, Mike Burke, Daniel Cook, Brian Faulkner, Morgan Potts, Bland Simpson, Fred Story, Lisa Waldo, Amy Wood, UNC-TV
Tennessee Crossroads: Compilation, Matt Emigh, Will Pedigo, John Pratt, Ken Simington, Rob Wilds, Nashville Public Television

PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Baby Daddy/Baby Momma, Barry Cross, Steve Hall, Doug Jackson, Annette Nole-Hall, Ken Tucker, David Van Hooser, The Renaissance Center
It Matters: Are We Prepared?, Russ Abernathy, Kip Cole, Angela de Jong-Angelici, Pierre Kimsey, WKNO
System on Trial: The Case of Brittany Willis, David Creech, Keith Papke, Katie Prince, Shaheen R. Syal, Melanie Thomas, WRAZ
The Mecklenburgers - Scamming Brady, Daniel Diehl, Mecklenburg County Government

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Action News 5 Holiday Food Drive, Chris Conroy, Tammy Phillips, WMC
Kids to Love, Lee Marshall, WAFF
Presbyterian Hospital Invitational Criterium, Baron Murphy, WBTV

INFORMATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM
DTV 411, James Benedict, Jay Jennings, Clay Johnson, WRAL
Janet's Planet: Zoom Through Space, John Hussey, Janet Ivey, Janet's Planet
The Wellmont Connection: Heart Disease, Patrick Kane, Stacey King, Dale Wicks, Wellmont Health System

INFORMATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL SERIES
Janet's Planet: Health Interstitials, John Hussey, Janet Ivey, Janet's Planet
Living In Fear, Cam Cornelius, Scott Couch, WZTV
Smart Medicine Composite, Joe Stuber, Running Pony Productions
The Mecklenburgers – Complilation, Daniel Diehl, John McGillicuddy, Mecklenburg County Government
When Seconds Count, Tony Burbeck, Rachel Clapp, Maria Kotula, Alex Reed, Jennifer Schnabel, WCNC

CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING
It's Farmer Jason, Matt Emigh, Ed Jones, Jason Ringenberg, Nashville Public Television
Little Panthers Game of the Week, Doug Bell, Riley Fields, Peter Vacho, Time Warner Cable
Smart Start Kids, Willa Brigham, Phyllis Parish Howard, Bill Jensen, Janet Walters, WRAL

SPECIAL EVENT/LIVE
CMA 2007 - After the Show, Karen Brown, Jeff Davidson, Dirk Mooth, Neil Orne, Brad Schmitt, Matthew Zelkind, WKRN
Midsouth Emmy Awards - 22nd Annual, Phillip L. Bell, Geneva M. Brignolo, Nicholas Dugger, Clifton Hunt, Mick Mixon, Pete Weber, Shan Zhong, NATAS Nashville/Midsouth
Salute to Our Troops Parade, Tony Gupton, Randy Mews, Phyllis Parish, Pam Saulsby, WRAL

SPECIAL EVENT/EDITED
Christmas at Belmont 2007, Clark Santee, Nashville Public Television
Home for the Holidays, Nick Burchett, John Koski, Howard Langston, Ethel Sengstack, WHBQ

PSA SPOT
Campaign 4 Change, Justin Owen, Scott Reid, WRAZ
DTV Transition: Adjustments, James Benedict, Jay Jennings, Clay Johnson, WRAL
Get Real, Get Tested "Your Dreams", Karen D. Johnson, WRAZ
Help! It's the UNC-TV Speakers Bureau, Len Faulconer, UNC-TV
NPT 8K Run, Hugh Brian O'Neill, Nashville Public Television

PSA CAMPAIGN
Action News 5 Holiday Food Drive, Drew Hamilton, Rich Wales, WMC
Healthwise Moments: FitKidsNC.com, Len Faulconer, Kristin Tharpe Lingle, UNC-TV
Help! It's the UNC-TV Speakers Bureau, Len Faulconer, UNC-TV
Still Green, Yesenia Herrera-Ibarra, Josh King, Von Kinloch, Jennifer Watkins, WSOC

PROMO SPOT/NEWS
Bestaurants/Worstaurants, Marc Morriston, Stephen Reynolds, WCNC
Breaking News, Ron DeJoseph, Scott Schweers, WSOC
DUALDoppler5000, Shelly Leslie, Shan Zhong, WRAL
Get Mobile, Ron DeJoseph, Melanie Johnson, Scott Schweers, WSOC
O-Fishel Weather Station, Shelly Leslie, Christian McIlwain, Shan Zhong, WRAL
The 9-1-1 Call, Beth Howard, Jerry Walker, WTVF
What Does NYC Know about Memphis News?, Ernie Freeman, Paul Sloan, David Stotts, WHBQ
Willie Realty, Vanessa Ezernieks, David Stotts, WHBQ

PROMO CAMPAIGN/NEWS
Branders Campaign, Roger Hobbs, Andy Spain, WNCN
Five on Your Side, Jay Yovanovich, WRAL
Hoops Headquarters, Shelly Leslie, Shan Zhong, WRAL
No Hype Weather Song, Vanessa Ezernieks, Maggie Malyn, Paul Sloan, David Stotts, WHBQ
What Does NYC Know about Memphis News?, Ernie Freeman, Paul Sloan, David Stotts, WHBQ

PROMO SPOT/PROGRAMS (NON-NEWS)
NPT Explore/Johnny Cash, Hugh Brian O'Neill, Nashville Public Television
NPT Joy of Painting, Hugh Brian O'Neill, Nashville Public Television
NPT Nashville WWII Stories, Hugh Brian O'Neill, Nashville Public Television
NPT/Nature "Minkin Girls", Hugh Brian O'Neill, Nashville Public Television
Only Here - FOX 50, Justin Owen, Christine Van Cott, WRAZ

PROMO CAMPAIGN/PROGRAMS (NON-NEWS)
Double Doug and Two Men, Christine Van Cott, WRAZ
Gimme the Mike Charlotte, Ron DeJoseph, Melanie Johnson, Josh King, WSOC
Holiday Spots, Kevin Maguire, Wes Pollard, WREG
It's a Wonderful Life, Todd Boggess, WAXN
NPT Beautiful Tennessee: Our Scenic Waterways, Hugh Brian O'Neill, Nashville Public Television
NPT/Nature "Minkin Girls", Hugh Brian O'Neill, Nashville Public Television
NPT/Nature "My Baby" Campaign, Hugh Brian O'Neill, Nashville Public Television

COMMERCIAL SPOT
Aging, D.L. Rhodes, BOHAN Advertising/Marketing
Five Mile Ride - Splash Country, D.L. Rhodes, BOHAN Advertising/Marketing
Geography: New Orleans, D.L. Rhodes, BOHAN Advertising/Marketing
Pouncer in Training", Jerit Abart, Jonathan Epstein, Benjamin Rednour, Eric Thompson, Running Pony Productions/CS2 Advertising
The Resurrection, Andy Dean, Dana Key, Dean Film & Video

COMMERCIAL CAMPAIGN
Embracing the Miracle, Michelle Collis, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare & Carpenter, Sullivan, Sossaman
Everywhere You Need Us, D.L. Rhodes, BOHAN Advertising/Marketing
Five Mile Ride, D.L. Rhodes, BOHAN Advertising/Marketing
Grizzlies Insider: New Game Campaign, Patrick Stage, Memphis Grizzlies
Inner Wild Child,Will Bezubi, Ryan Goble, Wally Green, Sue Lynn Perry, Rod Starns, Running Pony Productions

ANIMATION
2007 Liberty Bowl, Javier Leiva, Running Pony Productions
Andy Spain WNCN Reel, Andy Spain, WNCN
Animation Compilation - Justin Owen, Justin Owen, WRAZ
Animation Composite - Ron DeJoseph, Ron DeJoseph, WSOC
Wild Music Exhibition, Jeff Williford, NC Museum of Natural Sciences

AUDIO
Jumpin' Time, Dennis Ritchie, The Crosswind Corporation
Mazza-Mills Sound, Jeremy Mazza, Adam Mills, Songwriters USA
Nashville Predators Game Opener, John Hussey, P-K Pictures
New South Crossings, David L. Cook, Brent Kennedy, David Tang, WTVI/Firebird Arts Alliance

DIRECTOR/NEWS
Action News 5 at 5, Brent Green, WMC
Coverage Composite - WRAL News, James A. Ford, Jr., WRAL

DIRECTOR/PROGRAM (NON-NEWS)
Great Scenic Railway Journeys – Steam, Robert C. Van Camp, Wide Eye Productions
It's Our Time, Paul Sloan, David Stotts, WHBQ
Jumpin' Time, Matt Coale, The Crosswind Corporation
Our State: An Artist's Reflections, Morgan Potts, UNC-TV
Tennessee Crossroads: Smokin', Ed Jones, Ken Simington, Nashville Public Television

DIRECTOR/SHORT FORM (PSA/PROMO/COMMERCIAL
DUALDoppler5000, Shelly Leslie, Shan Zhong, WRAL
Fox 13 Composite, David Stotts, WHBQ
NPT Promos & PSAs, Hugh Brian O'Neill, Nashville Public Television
O-Fishel Weather Station, Shan Zhong, WRAL

EDITOR /NEWS
EditCamPosite, Cam Cornelius, WZTV
Lester Street House, Mike Moore, WHBQ
Secret Prayer, Jim DeLuca, WTVD
Six Flash Frames by Brad, Brad Ingram, WGHP

EDITOR/PROGRAM (NON-NEWS)
Baby Daddy/Baby Momma, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center
Great Scenic Railway Journeys – Steam, Robert C. Van Camp, Wide Eye Productions
It's Our Time, David Stotts, WHBQ
Jumpin' Time, Bradford L. Van Demark, The Crosswind Corporation
Nashville WWII Stories, Matt Emigh, Nashville Public Television
Our State: An Artist's Reflections, Morgan Potts, UNC-TV

EDITOR/SHORT FORM (PSA/PROMO/COMMERCIAL)
Daughtry ACC Football Open, David Barringer, Raycom Sports
J Walker Cuts, Jerry Walker, WTVF
Mahr Composite, Scott Mahr, WMC
O-Fishel Weather Station, Shan Zhong, WRAL
Steve Reynolds Composite, Stephen Reynolds, WCNC

GRAPHIC ARTS
Mahr Composite, Scott Mahr, WMC
Midsouth Emmy Awards - 22nd Annual, Shan Zhong, Shan Zhong Design
News2 Graphics, Vince Conti, Erik Edmondson, Kinsey Grigsby, WKRN
Shan Zhong Graphic Arts Composite, Shan Zhong, WRAL

LIGHTING
Christmas at Belmont, Jim DeMarco, Nashville Public Television
Great Scenic Railway Journeys – Steam, Robert C. Van Camp, Wide Eye Productions
Mills-Pessoni Shows, Adam Mills, Matthew Pessoni, Songwriters USA
Randy Fulp – Composition, Randy Fulp, WTVI

MUSIC COMPOSER/ARRANGER
Formula One on Speed, Randy Wachtler, 615 Music Productions
NASCAR on Speed - Be There, Randy Wachtler, 615 Music Productions
Our State: An Artist's Reflections, Fred Story, Concentrix Music and Sound Design
Raggs – Dinosaurs, Michael McGinnis, Fred Story, Rebecca Kent Story, Concentrix Music and Sound Design

PHOTOGRAPHY/NEWS
21,112 Frames of Big Daddy Ingram, Brad Ingram, WGHP
Mike Hamlet Photography Entry, Mike Hamlet, WMC
Phil Dunaway Composite, Phil Dunaway, WSMV
TV 'tog, Richard Adkins, WRAL

PHOTOGRAPHY/PROGRAM (NON-NEWS)
Cruising Carolina: The Lower Banks, David M. Dalton, Blue Water Media
Great Scenic Railway Journeys – Steam, Robert C. Van Camp, Wide Eye Productions
Our State: An Artist's Reflections, Mike Burke, UNC-TV
Somerset Place, Mike Burke, UNC-TV
Tennessee's Wild Side: Machine Falls, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center

PHOTOGRAPHY SHORT FORM
Compilation - Andy Dean, Andy Dean, Dean Film & Video
Daughtry ACC Open, David Barringer, Jeremy Williams, Raycom Sports
Fox 13 Photography, David Stotts, WHBQ
J Walker Pictures, Jerry Walker, WTVF
Steve Reynolds Composite, Stephen Reynolds, WCNC

WEATHER - CONTINUING COVERAGE
A Tennessee Tragedy, Matthew Hilk, Dan Thomas, Lisa Spencer, Sara Dorsey, WSMV
Storm 5 HD Weather: Tornado Outbreak, Kelly Cox, Charlie Neese, Lelan A. Statom, WTVF
Super Tuesday Tornadoes, Justin Bruce, Davis Nolan, Lisa Patton, WKRN
Super Tuesday Weather Coverage, Nick Austin, Tom Britt, Brad Douglass, Brad Grantham, Keli McAlister, Mike McEvoy, Gary Pickens, WBBJ

WRITER /NEWS
Mike Redding Stories, Mike Redding, WCNC
Not Necessarily the News, Brent Frazier, WTVF
Scott Mason Composite, Scott Mason, WRAL
Tang's Tall Tales Too, Jeff Tang, WTVF
Tiny Steps, Marguerite Ayers, Time Warner Cable Adcast

WRITER/PROGRAM (NON-NEWS)
9/4/1957, Steve Crump, WTVI
Beautiful Tennessee: Our Scenic Waterways, Will Pedigo, Nashville Public Television
CRANK: Darkness on the Edge of Town, Todd Jarrell, Two Six Productions
Cruising Carolina: The Lower Banks, Theresa Rossi Dalton, Blue Water Media
Grizzlies Insider: Writing Composite, Patrick Stage, Memphis Grizzlies
Tennessee's Wild Side: Terry's Stories, Terry Bulger, The Renaissance Center

WRITER/SHORT FORM (PSA/PROMO/COMMERCIAL)
Entertainment Tonight Campaign, Dave Boyd, WUXP
Eyewitness News Composite, Mark Leichner, WPTY
J Walker Words, Jerry Walker, WTVF
NPT Promos & PSAs, Hugh Brian O'Neill, Nashville Public Television
The Faulconer Files, Volume II, Len Faulconer, UNC-TV

ADVANCED MEDIA NEWS PROGRAMMING
2008 Primary Coverage, John Conway, CBC New Media Group
Mending a Broken Heart, Princine Lewis, Emily Pearce, Pat Slattery, Vanderbilt University News Service
Your Brain on Law, Pat Slattery, Amy Wolf, Vanderbilt University News Service

ADVANCED MEDIA PUBLIC/CURRENT/COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Journey of Discovery, Emily Pearce, Pat Slattery, Amy Wolf, Vanderbilt University News Service
WRAL's Komen for the Cure Project, Bill Burch, Phyllis Parish Howard, Shelly Leslie, WRAL

ADVANCED MEDIA SPORTS
Previews, Mitch Light, Athlon Sports
The Backstretch Blog, Heather Williams, www.NewsChannel9.com
Vanderbilt Women's Bowling, Emily Pearce, Pat Slattery, Amy Wolf, Vanderbilt University News Service

ADVANCED MEDIA ARTS / ENTERTAINMENT
Celeb Interviews, Scott Reid, WRAZ
Hard-Fi in Concert, Vaughn Skow, Ruckus Films/Sunset Island Studio
Staging the Mike, Andrew Manzella, WSOC

ADVANCED MEDIA DOCUMENTARY
Fox 13 MLKinMemphis.com, May-Lin Biggs, Will Dotson, Ken Jobe, WHBQ
Goodwill Is Changing Lives, Council Bradshaw, Tim Snider, Deja View Media
Scholar Identity Institute, Lyle Jackson, Learning Sciences Institute

ADVANCED MEDIA INTERACTIVITY
Consumer Action Center/WCNC, Amy Lehtonen, WCNC
WRAL.com Grocery Cart Tracker, John Conway. CBC New Media Group

ADVANCED MEDIA COMMERCIAL
No Hype Weather Song, Paul Sloan, David Stotts, WHBQ
Steam Promo, Robert C. Van Camp, Wide Eye Productions
What Does NYC Know about Memphis News?, Paul Sloan, David Stotts, WHBQ

ADVANCED MEDIA ANIMATOR / MOTION GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Previews, Corey Snyder, Athlon Sports
Stax Music Academy: From Soulsville to Memphis, Rafe Murray, Rafe Murray Post

ADVANCED MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHER
Scholar Identity Institute, Lyle Jackson, Learning Sciences Institute
Slattery Photography Composite, Pat Slattery, Vanderbilt University News Service
Steam Promo, Robert C. Van Camp, Wide Eye Productions

ADVANCED MEDIA VIDEO EDITOR
Scholar Identity Institute, Lyle Jackson, Learning Sciences Institute
Slattery Editing Composite, Pat Slattery, Vanderbilt University News Service
Steam Promo, Robert C. Van Camp, Wide Eye Productions

ADVANCED MEDIA WRITER / PRODUCER
Pearce Composite, Emily Pearce, Vanderbilt University News Service
Scholar Identity Institute, Lyle Jackson, Learning Sciences Institute
Steam Promo, Robert C. Van Camp, Wide Eye Productions
Trash Day of the Dead, Cameron McCasland, New Valiant Productions

NOMS COMPANY
32 WTVF
30 WRAL
21 Nashville Public Television
20 WCNC
18 WHBQ
13 UNC-TV
13 WSMV
12 WKRN
12 WMC
12 WZTV
9 Wide Eye Productions
8 WRAZ
7 Vanderbilt University News Service
6 WSOC
6 WTVI
5 BOHAN Advertising/Marketing
5 Raycom Sports
5 The Renaissance Center
5 WGHP
4 Learning Sciences Institute
4 Running Pony Productions
4 The Crosswind Corporation
4 WNCN
4 WPTY
3 Blue Water Media
3 Memphis Grizzlies
3 WAFF
3 WBTV
3 WKNO
2 615 Music Productions
2 Athlon Sports
2 CBC New Media Group
2 Concentrix Music & Sound Design
2 Dean Film & Video
2 FSN- South
2 Janet's Planet
2 Mecklenburg County Government
2 Songwriters USA
2 Two Six Productions/WCTE/ITVS
2 WREG
2 WTVC
2 WTVD
1 Deja View Media
1 Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare & Carpenter, Sullivan, Sossaman
1 Nashville Predators
1 NATAS Nashville/Midsouth
1 Natural World Productions
1 NC Museum of Natural Sciences
1 New Valiant Productions
1 P-K Pictures
1 Rafe Murray Post
1 Ruckus Films/Sunset Island Studio
1 Shan Zhong Designs
1 Time Warner Cable
1 Time Warner Cable Adcast
1 WATE
1 WAXN
1 WBBJ
1 WBIR
1 Wix Pix Productions
1 WTCI
1 WUXP
1 WVLT

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EMMY AWARD WINNERS - January 26, 2008,

22nd ANNUAL MIDSOUTH REGIONAL EMMY® AWARD WINNERS
COMPILED BY KV FINANCIAL GROUP, P.C., CPA’S

NEWS EXCELLENCE
Fox 13 News, Ken Jobe, WHBQ

NEWSCAST/EVENING
Fox13 News at 9, Ken Jobe, Mearl Purvis, Steve Dawson, Joey Sulipeck, Matt Stark, WHBQ

NEWSCAST/DAYTIME
Good Morning Memphis - American Idol Auditions, Angela Angelici, Valerie Calhoun, Tom Dees, Ernie Freeman, WHBQ

NEWSCAST/WEEKEND
Dragster Crash, Megan Pope, Syan Rhodes, WMC

SPOT NEWS
Snake Bit, Mike Rose, WTVF

BREAKING NEWS
WCNC: Police Chase, Mary Alvarez, WCNC

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORT
WCNC: Police Beating, Reid Bennett, Glenn Counts, WCNC

CONTINUING COVERAGE
WGHP - Eastern Guilford Fire, Karen Koutsky, WGHP

FEATURE STORY
Homeless Singers, Barbara Gibbs, WTVD

FEATURE SERIES
TV Pitch People, David Stotts, WHBQ

HUMAN INTEREST STORY
Underwater Warriors, Robert Goulston, Jarod Rogers, WTVF

HUMAN INTEREST SERIES
The Bravest Kids - Medicine & Miracles, Laura Faber, Brad Pfranger, WZTV

INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
NewsChannel 5 Investigates: Bill Heard Chevrolet, Jennifer Kraus, Bryan Staples, Phil Williams, Kevin Wisniewski, WTVF

BUSINESS/CONSUMER REPORT
Something's Fishy, John Gray, Kelly Rice, Stuart Watson, WCNC

SPECIALTY ASSIGNMENT REPORT
Bargain Thursday: Diamonds and Angels, Valerie Calhoun, Alistair Clark, WHBQ

JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE
The Case of Bonnie Neighbors, Katie Prince, WRAZ

NEWS SPECIAL
Defend Charlotte, Brien Blakely, Rebecca Clark, Tim Mullican, Angela Robbins, Terrence Walker, Ken White, WCCB

SPORTSCAST
NewsChannel 5 Sports, Eric Yutzy, WTVF

SPORTS SEGMENT
Unbreakable Kos, Andy Benton, Mike Redding, WCNC

SPORTS PROGRAMS/SERIES
Wheels of Fortune, Jay Jennings, Clay Johnson, WRAL

SPORTS EVENT/GAME
Carolina Hurricanes vs. Florida Panthers, Erik Barnhart, FSN - South

ADVANCED MEDIA SPORTS
More Than Just a Game, Emily Pearce, Patrick Slattery, Vanderbilt University News Service

WEATHERCAST
Drought 2007, Lisa Spencer, WSMV

DOCUMENTARY/CULTURAL
Louisville's Own Ali, Steve Crump, WTVI

DOCUMENTARY/HISTORICAL
The Spirit of Sacajawea, Beverly Penninger, Alyson Young, Naka Productions

DOCUMENTARY/TOPICAL
The Chemo Ate My Homework, Craig Leake, Pacific Pictures South

ADVANCED MEDIA DOCUMENTARY
Freedom Ride 2007, Emily Pearce, Patrick Slattery, Vanderbilt University News Service

ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
Carolina Traveler 2-3-07, Andy Benton, Mike Redding, WCNC

ADVANCED MEDIA ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
MobiJokes ™, Amariah Olson, Larry Olson, Obin Olson, DV3 Productions

MAGAZINE PROGRAM/SPECIAL
Tennessee's Wild Side: A Plan for Preservation, Barry Cross, Alan Griggs, Steve Hall, Doug Jackson, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center

MAGAZINE SERIES
Our State, Jim Bramlett, Mike Burke, Daniel Cook, Brian Faulkner, Morgan Potts, Lisa Waldo, UNC-TV

PUBLIC AFFAIRS
NC Wanted, David Creech, WRAZ

COMMUNITY SERVICE
The Food Bank, John Koski, Susan Sanford, WHBQ

ADVANCED MEDIA PUBLIC/CURRENT/COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Rev. James Lawson Returns, Joe Fisher, Emily Pearce, Patrick Slattery, Vanderbilt University News Service

INFORMATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL
Janet's Planet, John Hussey, Janet Ivey, Janet's Planet

CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING
Fort Donelson: A Place for Heroes, Steve Hall, Doug Jackson, Ken Tucker, David VanHooser, The Renaissance Center

SPECIAL EVENT/LIVE
One Symphony Place, Susan Routh Bowman, Robert Swope, Christopher Toyne, Alan Valentine, Sunrise Entertainment

SPECIAL EVENT/EDITED
St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway, Waheed AlQawasmi, Nathan Babian, Rahn K Evans, Harris Jones, Vincent Price, C J Rasul, Universal Productions

ADVANCED MEDIA INTERACTIVITY
WRAL.com Video Player, Nathan Clendenin, WRAL.com

PSA SPOT
Escape, Amariah Olson, Larry Olson, DV3 Productions

PSA CAMPAIGN
School Tools 2006, Tom Atkins, Todd Boggess, Ron DeJoseph, WSOC

PROMO SPOT/NEWS
Vote with Your Remote, Chris Franklin, Alexander Gordon, David Stotts, WHBQ

PROMO CAMPAIGN/NEWS
Get Wise Campaign, Tim Doyle, WREG

PROMO SPOT/PROGRAMS (NON-NEWS)
NPT "Give the Gift of Membership"/Out of Sync, Hugh Brian O'Neill, Nashville Public Television

PROMO CAMPAIGN/PROGRAMS (NON-NEWS)
myfoxmemphis.com, Vanessa Ezernieks, David Stotts, WHBQ

COMMERCIAL SPOT
Pigeon Forge - Kelly Johnson, D.L. Rhodes, BOHAN Advertising/Marketing

COMMERCIAL CAMPAIGN
University of Memphis Football - Get Ready for the Tigers at Home #1, Jerit Abart, Jonathan Epstein, Ryan Goble, Dave Wells, Running Pony Productions

ADVANCED MEDIA COMMERCIAL
GOLO.com, Christian McIlwain, Shan Zhong, WRAL.com

ANIMATION
JC Composite, Jonathan Case, WCCB

AUDIO
Fox 13 Composite, David Stotts, WHBQ

DIRECTOR/NEWS
Channel 4 News at 10 - Election Coverage, Lee Hope, WSMV

DIRECTOR/PROGRAM (NON-NEWS)
The Chemo Ate My Homework, Craig Leake, Pacific Pictures South

DIRECTOR/SHORT FORM
Fox 13 Composite, David Stotts, WHBQ

EDITOR /NEWS
Allen Fairbanks Composite, Allen Fairbanks, Jr., WDEF

EDITOR/PROGRAM (NON-NEWS) - TIE
Jennifer Holt Edit Composite, Jennifer Holt, WZTV
The Spirit of Sacajawea, Susan Rayborn Miller, Naka Productions

EDITOR/SHORT FORM
WREG Composite, Kevin Maguire, Wes Pollard, WREG

ADVANCED MEDIA VIDEO EDITOR
WRAL.com "Create Your Own Promo", Christian McIlwain, WRAL.com

GRAPHIC ARTS
WTVF GFX Mix, Terrance Boyce, Tammie Dodge, Beth Howard, WTVF

LIGHTING
WRAL 2007 HD Talent Opens, Steve Elizondo, Shelly Leslie, Jay Yovanovich, WRAL

MUSIC COMPOSER/ARRANGER
Monet in Normandy, Fred Story, Concentrix Music and Sound Design

PHOTOGRAPHY/NEWS
Nelson's News, Ted Nelson, WTVF

PHOTOGRAPHY/PROGRAM (NON-NEWS)
Tennessee's Wild Side: Life of a Stream, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center

PHOTOGRAPHY SHORT FORM
Jwalker Pictures, Jerry Walker, WTVF

ADVANCED MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHER
Slattery Composite, Patrick Slattery, Vanderbilt University News Service

SET DESIGN
Titans All Access, Jennifer Holt, WZTV

TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
The Selmer Solution, Cary Clark, Mark Martin, WTVF

WRITER /NEWS
Terry Bulger Stories, Terry Bulger, WSMV

WRITER/PROGRAM (NON-NEWS)
Carolina Traveler, Mike Redding, WCNC

WRITER/SHORT FORM
WREG Composite, Tim Doyle, Kevin Maguire, Wes Pollard, WREG

ADVANCED MEDIA WRITER / PRODUCER
Emily Pearce Composite, Emily Pearce, Vanderbilt University News Service

CO WIN CITY ST
WHBQ 10 Memphis TN
WTVF 8 Nashville TN
WCNC 6 Charlotte NC
Vanderbilt University News Service 5 Nashville TN
WRAL and WRAL.com 5 Raleigh NC
The Renaissance Center 3 Dickson TN
WREG 3 Memphis TN
WSMV 3 Nashville TN
WZTV 3 Nashville TN
DV3 Prods 2 Wilmington NC
Naka Prods 2 Charlotte NC
Pacific Pictures South 2 Memphis TN
WCCB 2 Charlotte NC
WRAZ 2 Durham NC
BOHAN Advertising/Marketing 1 Nashville TN
Carolina Hurricanes/FSN South 1 Raleigh NC
Concentrix Music 1 Charlotte NC
Janet's Planet 1 Nashville TN
Nashville Public Television 1 Nashville TN
Running Pony Productions 1 Memphis TN
Sunrise Entertainment 1 Nashville TN
UNC-TV 1 Raleigh NC
Universal Productions 1 Southaven MS
WDEF 1 Chattanooga TN
WGHP 1 High Point NC
WMC 1 Memphis TN
WSOC 1 Charlotte NC
WTVD 1 Durham NC
WTVI 1 Charlotte NC

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EMMY AWARDS PRESS RELEASE for ceremony January 26, 2008,

The Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) presented the 22nd Annual Midsouth Emmy® Awards at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Saturday, January 26, 2008. The Midsouth Chapter encompasses the States of North Carolina and Tennessee and northern Alabama.

Chapter President Ellen Jones Pryor of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts welcomed a record crowd of 535 to the cocktail reception and gala banquet. The live telecast was hosted by Mick Mixon*, Voice of the Carolina Panthers, and Pete Weber*, Voice of the Nashville Predators.

Awards were presented in 70 categories (complete list follows), including the new Advanced Media awards. The presenters were
UNC-TV, Jeff Smith and Mitch Lewis
WBTV/WTVI, Steve Crump
WCCB. Brien Blakely
WCNC, Mike Redding and Anna Crowley
WGHP, Karen Koutsky
WHBQ, Mearl Purvis and Joey Sulipeck
WKRN, Anne Holt
WMC, Bill Lunn
WRAL, Ken Smith and Bill Leslie
WSMV, Lisa Spencer
WTVF, Amy Watson and Steve Hayslip
WZTV, Scott Couch

The Rising Star Award went to Todd Jarrell*, Independent Filmmaker, well known for his documentary work on the spread of Methamphetamine in Tennessee. The award, honoring an industry professional in the Midsouth Region who shows extraordinary promise, was presented by Pete Weber and Perry Gibson of the Tennessee Film, Entertainment and Music Commission, sponsors of Rising Star.

Patrick “Pat” Slattery* of the Vanderbilt University News Service was inducted into the Silver Circle, honoring quarter-century contributions to television. The presentation was made by Phillip L. Bell of Earnhardt Pirkle and National Trustee of the Academy, and long-time colleague Demetria Kalodimos of WSMV.

The Governors’ Award for Lifetime Achievement was awarded to Judy Girard*, President of HGTV at Scripps Networks. She was honored by Laura Faber, Anchor at WZTV and Alternate National Trustee of the Academy, and Deborah McDermott, President of Young Broadcasting.

The telecast of the 22nd Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy® Awards was sponsored by AT&T, the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau, and Regions Bank, with closed captioning provided by Vanderbilt University.

The over 700 entries were judged by the NATAS Chicago/Midwest Chapter and the Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter, based in Phoenix. Their ballots were tabulated by Kurt Vitolo of the KV Financial Group, P.C., CPA’S
* MICK MIXON
Currently in his 27th year as a sports announcer, Mick is a former radio and TV “Voice of the Maine Guides” Triple-A Baseball Club. He spent 16 years as Color Analyst and Production Manager for the Tar Heel Sports Network. Mick was named play-by-play announcer for the NFL’s Carolina Panthers in April, 2005, and calls games for Fox Sports South.
Mick was named North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year in 1999 and 2004, and has taught at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communications. He is the only non-official to be inducted into the Atlantic Coast Conference Football Officials Association. Mick is married to Kristin Lyn Tucker, and plays drums in two working bands, “Franklin Street” and “Mick & The Ultras” He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in Broadcast Journalism/Radio, Television, Motion Pictures.

* PETE WEBER
During his years as a sportscaster, Pete Weber has demonstrated his versatility by calling action in the NHL, NFL, NBA, the Winter Olympics; and Triple A baseball, along with college hockey, football, and basketball.
Pete is currently the voice of the Nashville Predators. He also spent two seasons as radio play-by-play man for the Buffalo Sabres and three seasons as color commentator for the Los Angeles Kings. He traveled to Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, to cover the 1984 U.S. Olympic team for the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Pete was color commentator on the Buffalo Bills radio network, and hosted their television and radio shows.
Pete's baseball experience includes Voice of the Buffalo Bisons. In basketball, he called TV play-by-play for the Seattle SuperSonics, and color commentary for the legendary Chick Hearn on the Lakers broadcasts when Pat Riley left to join the coaching ranks. Pete was Mutual Broadcasting's analyst for the 1980 NBA Championship Series between the Lakers and the Philadelphia 76ers.
Pete had a voice role in the 1981 ABC-TV movie "Miracle on Ice," and in 1999, he was honored with induction into the Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame. Holder of a Master of Arts degree in Communications from Notre Dame, Pete and his wife Claudia reside in Antioch, TN.

* TODD JARRELL
Methamphetamine is a familiar topic to writer/producer Todd Jarrell. A resident of Cookeville, Tennessee, the primary location for this film and the hub of the Upper Cumberland mountain area, Jarrell watched a meth crisis grow from a few early print stories in the local Herald Citizen to a social issue garnering the attentions of the national press. First reporting on the home made drug in 2004 for Nashville’s WPLN (NPR), Jarrell’s public radio series In Meth’s Grip garnered three national awards and was cited by Public Radio News Directors Inc. as the “most comprehensive, listen-able, and eye-opening coverage of the meth problem we have heard to date.” Following that series, Nashville’s WKRN NEWS 2 (ABC) invited Jarrell to collaborate on exploring Tennessee’s meth problem in a one-hour prime time news special. The ensuing, Meth In Tennessee, was nominated for the 2006 National EMMY in Community Service.
Jarrell’s previous television work includes the PBS feature Tree Safari: A Sculptural Journey, (PBS) filmed in South Africa on the mythic and medicinal aspects of sculptor Brad Sells’ exotic wood medium. Change of Heart, examining one spiritual young man’s work with Cape Town’s street children. Now in production are The Koa Connection, the second of the Tree Safari series and TUBA U: Basso Profundo, which follows an unlikely ensemble to Carnegie Hall.
Jarrell’s audio work includes the award-winning audiobook Slow Dance with the Planet (HighBridge), and features for All Things Considered; Weekend America; The World; The Savvy Traveler; Great Lakes Radio Consortium; CBC Radio One (Canada); Radio Netherlands World Service; andBBC Radio 4. Print/Internet features include: National Geographic News; CNN.com; Hemispheres (USA), Wingspan (Japan), Traditional Boats and Tall Ships (UK), Houston Chronicle, New Orleans’ Times Picayune, andCanada’s national daily The Globe and Mail.
Jarrell’s work has earned recognition from: National & Regional EMMY nominations, Associated Press, AURORA Awards, TELLY Awards, GABRIEL nomination, PRNDI, LOWELL THOMAS Awards, the SILVER MICROPHONE, the COMMUNICATORS Crystal, and more.

* PATRICK SLATTERY
Pat Slattery, a national award-winning videographer and longtime chief photographer at WSMV-TV, joined the Vanderbilt University News Service in August 2006, as broadcast technical and production manager. He serves the university and medical center as videographer for live shots at VUStar, Vanderbilt's campus broadcast facility, as well as facilitating audio production and shooting and editing stories for external media and VUCast, Vanderbilt's news Web site.
Pat was on staff at WSMV-TV for more than 24 years (1982-2006), serving as chief photographer for 11 of those years. As chief photographer, he oversaw and mentored a staff of 24 photojournalists, editors and ENG technicians.
Al Tompkins, former WSMV news director, and currently the broadcast/online group leader at the Poynter Institute, said “There are few photojournalists who have touched as many professional lives as Pat Slattery. The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) turned to Pat to teach at national conferences, where he taught and mentored countless photojournalists, video editors and reporters. His work stretches from documentaries that saved an inner city preschool in Nashville to major works shot in the slums of Haiti, the former Yugoslavia, and the glory of the Olympics in Athens.”
Pat came to Nashville from KSL in Salt Lake, where he was photojournalist for Dimension 5, a weekly newsmagazine. Pat’s earlier experience includes WHAS and WLKY in Louisville, and WEHT in Evansville. His professional career began in 1978, after graduation in Radio-TV from Murray State University.
In addition to the twenty Emmy® Awards he won while at WSMV, Pat is nominated eight times tonight in the advanced media categories. He is the recipient of hundreds of awards, including the National Headliner Award, the IRIS (NATPE), and National Press Photographers Association awards.

* JUDY GIRARD
Judy Girard, president of HGTV, assumed her position in November 2005 after serving as president of Shop At Home Network. During her tenure at Shop At Home, she managed the network’s integration into the television commerce strategy for Scripps Networks and its lifestyle television brands: HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network and Fine Living.
Previously Ms. Girard served as president of Food Network, where she was responsible for programming, marketing and promotions for the network and content on foodnetwork.com.
Additionally, Ms. Girard served as senior vice president of programming and content development for Scripps Networks. She was responsible for the planning and coordination required for using programming content generated by all the Scripps Networks brands and the development of the DIY Network.
Ms. Girard, a long-time television executive, also served as senior vice president of programming for Americast, a joint venture of Disney, BellSouth, SBC Communications, Ameritech and GTE Corp., where she oversaw video and interactive services. At Americast, Ms. Girard worked with Disney and other partners to build a 125-plus channel programming entity.
Prior to Americast, Ms. Girard was senior vice president, programming and production at Lifetime. At Lifetime, she was responsible for revamping the company’s programming department, launching “Intimate Portrait” and developing a new monthly movie franchise, Lifetime Original Movie, which included the highly-successful, “Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story.”
From 1991-1993, Ms. Girard was vice president of broadcasting at New York’s WNBC-TV. From 1989-1991, Ms. Girard served as vice president of program development for the NBC owned-and-operated stations. Ms. Girard also was instrumental in developing successful syndication partnerships between Multimedia Entertainment talk shows, such as “Phil Donahue” and “Sally Jessy Raphael,” and the NBC-owned stations.
From 1979-1987, Ms. Girard held various positions within Hearst Broadcasting including director of programming operations and promotion for WTAE-TV, Pittsburgh and WBAL-TV, Baltimore. From 1973-1979, she served as station manager at WOWK-TV, Huntington, West Virginia and program manager for WBNG-TV, Binghamton, New York. Her television career began in 1968 at WPVI-TV, Philadelphia.
Ms. Girard graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Science degree in radio-television-film. She resides in Knoxville, Tennessee and Wilmington, North Carolina.

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23rd MIDSOUTH EMMY® AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED 1/24/09,

23RD ANNUAL WINNERS MIDSOUTH REGIONAL EMMY® AWARDS

Compiled by THE VADEN GROUP, PC, CPA’S

NEWS EXCELLENCE
NewsChannel 5 Network, Sandy Boonstra, Mike Cutler, WTVF

NEWSCAST/EVENING
Killer Tornadoes, Matt Peace, WPTY

NEWSCAST/DAYTIME
News 2 at 4, Alison Coe, Bob Mueller, Matthew Zelkind, WKRN

NEWSCAST /WEEKEND
WRAL News at 11 "Wind and Fire", Dan Bowens, Kelcey Carlson, Kim Deaner, Ken Smith, Martha Woodward, WRAL

SPOT NEWS
Ripped Apart, Richard DeVayne, Frankie Gunnell, WCNC

BREAKING NEWS
WREG - Severe Weather Coverage, Jim Jaggers, Tim Simpson, WREG

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORT - WITHIN 24 HOURS
Downtown Wayfinding, Frank Graff, WNCN

GENERAL ASSIGNMENT REPORT - NO TIME LIMIT
Finally Home, Andy Benton, Mike Redding, WCNC

CONTINUING COVERAGE - WITHIN 24 HOURS
WGHP - May Tornadoes, Karen Koutsky, WGHP

CONTINUING COVERAGE - NO TIME LIMIT
Service and Sacrifice, Laura Faber, Brian Hallett, Ken Smith, WZTV

SERIOUS FEATURE NEWS REPORT
Marty, Scott Mason, WRAL

SERIOUS FEATURE NEWS SERIES
Milton's Dream, Iain Montgomery, Barry Simmons, WTVF

LIGHT FEATURE NEWS REPORT - TIE
Devil's Tramping Ground, Scott Mason, WRAL
Fox 13 BBQ Man, Derric Curran, Tom Dees, Pansy Hall, WHBQ

LIGHT FEATURE NEWS SERIES
Dave's Diamond Darlings, Dave Staley, WTVC

INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
Stories of Abuse, Bryan Staples, Phil Williams, Kevin Wisniewski, WTVF

BUSINESS/CONSUMER REPORT
An Alarming Failure, Jennifer Kraus, Bryan Staples, Kevin Wisniewski, WTVF

SPECIALTY ASSIGNMENT REPORT
Buried in Antarctica, Jeff Tang, David Willis, WTVF

JOURNALISTIC ENTERPRISE - NO TIME LIMIT
The Sanitation Strike, Jeremy Jones, WMC

NEWS SPECIAL
The Young and the Lawless, Jeremy Finley, Zina Bauman, WSMV

SPORTSCAST
The Sore Hand, Paul Jones, WZTV

SPORTS SEGMENT
Skipper, Alex Farmartino, Raycom Sports

SPORTS PROGRAMS/SERIES
Football Saturdays in the South, Dave Barringer, Alex Farmartino, Rob Reichley, Beverly Rumley, Lance Stewart, Jeremy Williams, Raycom Sports

SPORTS EVENT/GAME
ACC Baseball Championship - Miami vs. Virginia, Erik Barnhart, FSN- South

WEATHERCAST
Tennessee Heat Wave, Lisa Spencer, WSMV

DOCUMENTARY/CULTURAL
Beautiful Tennessee: Our Scenic Waterways, Kevin Crane, Matt Emigh, Will Pedigo, Nashville Public Television

DOCUMENTARY/HISTORICAL
Nashville WWII Stories, Matt Emigh, Justin Harvey, Nashville Public Television

DOCUMENTARY/TOPICAL
CRANK: Darkness on the Edge of Town, Sally Jo Fifer, Todd Jarrell, Mitch Jordan, Tika Laudun, Becky Magura, Two Six Productions/WCTE/ITVS

HISTORIC/CULTURAL PROGRAM/SPECIAL
Little Kurdistan, Kevin Crane, Matt Emigh, Will Pedigo, Nashville Public Television

ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT
Jumpin' Time, Terry D. Choate, The Crosswind Corporation

MAGAZINE PROGRAM/SPECIAL
Tar Heel Traveler #1, Scott Mason, WRAL

MAGAZINE SERIES
Carolina Traveler: Miracle League, Andy Benton, Mike Redding, WCNC

PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Baby Daddy/Baby Momma, Barry Cross, Steve Hall, Doug Jackson, Annette Nole-Hall, Ken Tucker, David Van Hooser, The Renaissance Center

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Kids to Love, Lee Marshall, WAFF

INFORMATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM/SPECIAL
DTV 411, James Benedict, Jay Jennings, Clay Johnson, WRAL

INFORMATIONAL/INSTRUCTIONAL SERIES
Janet's Planet: Health Interstitials, John Hussey, Janet Ivey, Janet's Planet

CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING
It's Farmer Jason, Matt Emigh, Ed Jones, Jason Ringenberg, Nashville Public Television

SPECIAL EVENT/LIVE
Midsouth Emmy Awards - 22nd Annual, Phillip L. Bell, Geneva M. Brignolo, Nicholas Dugger, Clifton Hunt, Mick Mixon, Pete Weber, Shan Zhong, NATAS Nashville/Midsouth

SPECIAL EVENT/EDITED
Christmas at Belmont 2007, Clark Santee, Nashville Public Television

PSA SPOT
DTV Transition: Adjustments, James Benedict, Jay Jennings, Clay Johnson, WRAL

PSA CAMPAIGN
Help! It's the UNC-TV Speakers Bureau, Len Faulconer, UNC-TV

PROMO SPOT/NEWS - TIE
Bestaurants/Worstaurants, Marc Morriston, Stephen Reynolds, WCNC
Breaking News, Ron DeJoseph, Scott Schweers, WSOC

PROMO CAMPAIGN/NEWS
Five on Your Side, Jay Yovanovich, WRAL

PROMO SPOT/PROGRAMS (NON-NEWS)
NPT/Nature "Minkin Girls", Hugh Brian O'Neill, Nashville Public Television

PROMO CAMPAIGN/PROGRAMS (NON-NEWS)
NPT/Nature "Minkin Girls", Hugh Brian O'Neill, Nashville Public Television

COMMERCIAL SPOT
Five Mile Ride - Splash Country, D.L. Rhodes, BOHAN Advertising/Marketing

COMMERCIAL CAMPAIGN
Embracing the Miracle, Michelle Collis, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare & Carpenter, Sullivan, Sossaman

ANIMATION
Animation Composite - Ron DeJoseph, Ron DeJoseph, WSOC

AUDIO
New South Crossings, David L. Cook, Brent Kennedy, David Tang, WTVI/Firebird Arts Alliance

DIRECTOR/NEWS
Coverage Composite - WRAL News, James A. Ford, Jr., WRAL

DIRECTOR/PROGRAM (NON-NEWS)
Our State: An Artist's Reflections, Morgan Potts, UNC-TV

DIRECTOR/SHORT FORM (PSA/PROMO/COMMERCIAL
Fox 13 Composite, David Stotts, WHBQ

EDITOR /NEWS
Secret Prayer, Jim DeLuca, WTVD

EDITOR/PROGRAM (NON-NEWS)
Jumpin' Time, Bradford L. Van Demark, The Crosswind Corporation

EDITOR/SHORT FORM (PSA/PROMO/COMMERCIAL)
Daughtry ACC Football Open, David Barringer, Raycom Sports

GRAPHIC ARTS
News2 Graphics, Vince Conti, Erik Edmondson, Kinsey Grigsby, WKRN

LIGHTING
Randy Fulp – Composition, Randy Fulp, WTVI

MUSIC COMPOSER/ARRANGER
Raggs - Dinosaurs, Michael McGinnis, Fred Story, Rebecca Kent Story, Concentrix Music and Sound Design

PHOTOGRAPHY/NEWS
TV 'tog, Richard Adkins, WRAL

PHOTOGRAPHY/PROGRAM (NON-NEWS) - TIE
Our State: An Artist's Reflections, Mike Burke, UNC-TV
Tennessee's Wild Side: Machine Falls, Ken Tucker, The Renaissance Center

PHOTOGRAPHY SHORT FORM (PSA/PROMO/COMMERCIAL)
Daughtry ACC Open, David Barringer, Jeremy Williams, Raycom Sports

WEATHER - CONTINUING COVERAGE
Super Tuesday Tornadoes, Justin Bruce, Davis Nolan, Lisa Patton, WKRN

WRITER /NEWS
Scott Mason Composite, Scott Mason, WRAL

WRITER/PROGRAM (NON-NEWS) - TIE
Beautiful Tennessee: Our Scenic Waterways, Will Pedigo, Nashville Public Television
CRANK: Darkness on the Edge of Town, Todd Jarrell, Two Six Productions

WRITER/SHORT FORM (PSA/PROMO/COMMERCIAL)
NPT Promos & PSAs, Hugh Brian O'Neill, Nashville Public Television

ADVANCED MEDIA NEWS PROGRAMMING
Mending a Broken Heart, Princine Lewis, Emily Pearce, Pat Slattery, Vanderbilt University News Service

ADVANCED MEDIA PUBLIC/CURRENT/COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
WRAL's Komen for the Cure Project, Bill Burch, Phyllis Parish Howard, Shelly Leslie, WRAL

ADVANCED MEDIA SPORTS
Vanderbilt Women's Bowling, Emily Pearce, Pat Slattery, Amy Wolf, Vanderbilt University News Service

ADVANCED MEDIA ARTS / ENTERTAINMENT
Hard-Fi in Concert, Vaughn Skow, Ruckus Films/Sunset Island Studio

ADVANCED MEDIA DOCUMENTARY
Goodwill Is Changing Lives, Council Bradshaw, Tim Snider, Deja View Media

ADVANCED MEDIA INTERACTIVITY
WRAL.com Grocery Cart Tracker, John Conway. CBC New Media Group

ADVANCED MEDIA COMMERCIAL
What Does NYC Know about Memphis News?, Paul Sloan, David Stotts, WHBQ

ADVANCED MEDIA ANIMATOR / MOTION GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Previews, Corey Snyder, Athlon Sports

ADVANCED MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHER
Steam Promo, Robert C. Van Camp, Wide Eye Productions

ADVANCED MEDIA VIDEO EDITOR
Steam Promo, Robert C. Van Camp, Wide Eye Productions

ADVANCED MEDIA WRITER / PRODUCER
Steam Promo, Robert C. Van Camp, Wide Eye Productions

WINNERS BY COMPANY:
WRAL 11
Nashville Public Television 9
WTVF 5
Raycom Sports 4
WCNC 4
UNC-TV 3
WHBQ 3
Wide Eye Productions 3
WKRN 3
The Crosswind Corporation 2
The Renaissance Center 2
Two Six Productions/WCTE/ITVS 2
Vanderbilt University News Service 2
WSMV 2
WSOC 2
WTVI 2
WZTV 2
SINGLE WINNERS:
Athlon Sports
BOHAN Advertising/Marketing
CBC New Media Group
Concentrix Music and Sound Design
Deja View Media
FSN- South
Janet's Planet
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare/Scott Fowler Productions
NATAS Nashville/Midsouth
Ruckus Films/Sunset Island Studio
WAFF
WGHP
WMC
WNCN
WPTY/WLMT
WREG
WTVC
WTVD

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23RD EMMY AWARDS PRESS RELEASE,

23rd ANNUAL EMMY® WINNERS ANNOUNCED
NASA TV and Marshall Space Flight Center Receive Governors’ Award
Joe Birch and Dave Brown Join Silver Circle on WMC-TV’s 60th Anniversary


The Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) announced the winners of the 23rd Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy® Awards at a banquet and live telecast at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville on Saturday, January 24, 2009

Hal Ketchum, noted songwriter, musician, singer and television personality hosted the telecast.

NATAS National Trustee Gene Policinski, of The First Amendment Center, announced the recipient of the Governors’ Award for Lifetime Achievement. The academy recognized the 50th Anniversary of NASA, in particular NASA TV. U.S. Representative Bart Gordon, Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology, presented the award to NASA. Astronaut Mike Fincke accepted from the International Space Station. Dr. Rick Chappell of the Dyer Observatory at Vanderbilt, presented the award to the Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama. A tribute to NASA TV was narrated by Nick Clooney.


NATAS National Trustee Phillip L. Bell, honored WMC-TV in Memphis, the first station in the Midsouth Region, on their 60th anniversary. Phil and Linn Sitler of the Memphis and Shelby County Film and Television Commission, inducted two members of the WMC-TV team into the Silver Circle, honoring quarter-century contributions to the industry: Dave Brown, Chief Weathercaster, has been at WMC over 30 years, and was with WHBQ for 13 years prior to that; and Joe Birch, who has delivered the news for over 30 years at WMC-TV.

Category presenters included: The academy’s Alternate national trustee, Laura Faber. From Charlotte, North Carolina: Alex Reed, WCNC, and Steve Crump, WBTV/WTVI. From Huntsville, Alabama, Lee Marshall, WAFF. From Memphis, Tennessee, Ernie Freeman and Lauren Lee, WHBQ. From Nashville, Tennessee: Joe Elmore, NPT: Nashville Public Television; Anne Holt and Bob Mueller, WKRN; Jennifer Johnson, Demetria Kalodimos, and Lisa Spencer, WSMV; Amy Watson, Lelan Statom, and Vicki Yates, WTVF, Scott Couch and Paul Jones, WZTV. From Raleigh, North Carolina, Sloane Heffernan,WRAL

Chapter President Ellen Jones Pryor of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, announced that AT&T was the primary telecast sponsor for the 10th year, Closed Captioning was provided by Vanderbilt University, and Videostreaming was supported by Regions Bank. The Hilton Downtown Nashville was the academy headquarters for the gala.

Nearly 750 entries resulted in nominations for individuals from 63 stations and companies in 75 categories.
The complete list of winners and company totals follows. The ballots, tabulated by Jennifer Lane of the The Vaden Group, were judged by the Ohio Valley Chapter, which includes Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati, and by the Suncoast Chapter in Florida.

For further information: Geneva Brignolo, 615-259-0040, emmynash@aol.com

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is a non-profit, professional organization dedicated to fostering excellence in television. The academy has 19 chapters with 15,000 members nationwide. The Nashville/Midsouth Region encompasses the States of North Carolina (except Asheville) and Tennessee, and northern Alabama.

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EMMY TELECAST VIDEOSTREAM 2009,

Videostream of 23rd Annual Midsouth Emmy Awards, presented January 24, 2009

http://tinyurl.com/bwje6z

or

http://mfile.akamai.com/18566/wmv/etouchsyst2.download.akamai.com/18355/wm.nasa-global/emmy/emmy_stream.asx

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MEDSOUTH EMMY PHOTOS FROM 1-24-09,

The still photographic images from the 23rd Annual Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards are now ready to be viewed online.
The web address is
www.digiproofs.com/TommyLawson
The password is EMMY

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LINKS WE THINK YOU'LL LIKE!,

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Link

CONTACT US!

Feel free to e-mail the Academy office if you have any questions or comments about our chapter or activities.

mailto:EmmyNash@aol.com

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Link


ZAP2IT.COM (Formerly the ULTIMATE TV LIST)
A great place to catch up on all the latest TV talk, plus, how to contact any television station in the country!

http://www.zap2it.com/


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VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY TELEVISION NEWS ARCHIVES
This searchable archive allows you to find summaries of network newscasts dating from August, 1968 to the present. A great
resource!

http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu


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MEDIA LITERACY WEBSITE
Jay Pfaffman of the Learning Technology Center at Vanderbilt University has created a Web application called a Webliographer(c) which enables groups of people all across the country to share links to media literacy sites and media literacy projects on the web.

http://relax.ltc.vanderbilt.edu/natas/


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Freedom Forum First Amendment Center

http://www.freedomforum.org/first/

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RISING STAR ENTRY FORM,

For the 22nd Annual Emmy Awards, The Tennessee Film and Music Commission is sponsoring the fourth annual "Rising Star." This award honors an industry professional in the Midsouth Region who shows extraordinary promise. Entries are to be made by the head of a department in a television station, production company, or new/advanced media company, for entrants whose work exhibits creativity, vision and high ethical standards. The nominees will be chosen by the board of governors of the academy from those entrants whose efforts hold promise for the industry's future. The entry deadline is January 7. The award is a crystal pillar to be presented at the Emmy® Awards on January 26, 2008, at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

Former Rising Star winners are: Bridget Kling, Documentary Producer; Nicholas E. Dugger, TNDV.com; and Bridget Lovelle, Assistant News Director, WPTY.

RISING STAR ENTRY FORM

Person Submitting Entry______________________________________________________________

Title______________________________ Company_______________________________________

Address___________________________________________________________________________

Voice______________________________ e-mail_________________________________________


Name of Entrant_____________________________________________________________________

Current Job Title and Company_________________________________________________________

Address___________________________________________________________________________

Voice_____________________________ e-mail_________________________________________

Outstanding Qualities________________________________________________________________
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Extraordinary Accomplishments________________________________________________________
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Future Goals________________________________________________________________________
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Please attach a photograph of the entrant.
Return by January 7 to emmynash@aol.com

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