Emmy Awards
The Emmy Awards are annual awards for excellence in the American television industry. Several annual Emmy Awards ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with its own rules and award categories. The two events that receive the most media coverage are the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Daytime Emmy Awards, which recognize outstanding work in American primetime and daytime entertainment programming, respectively. Other notable national Emmy events are the Children's & Family Emmy Awards for Children's and Family Television Programming, Sports Emmy Awards for Sports Programming, News & Documentary Emmy Awards for Documentary and News Programs, and the Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards and the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards for Engineering and Technology Achievement. Regional #Emmy Awards are also presented across the country at various times throughout the year, recognizing excellence in local and state television. In addition, the International Emmy Awards recognize excellence in television programming initially produced and broadcast outside of the United States.
The Emmy statuette, depicting a winged woman holding an atom, is named after "immy," an informal term for the orthicon video camera tube that was common in early cameras of TV. It is considered one of the four great annual awards of American entertainment, along with the Grammy for music, the Oscars (Academy Award) for cinema and the Tony for theater.
History
The Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) established the Emmy Award as part of an image-building and public relations opportunity. The first Emmy ceremony took place on January 25, 1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club, but solely to honor programs produced and broadcast locally in the Los Angeles area. Shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the first Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Personality, during that first awards ceremony.<ref="emmyHistory"/> The term "Emmy" is a French alteration of the television crews slang term "Immy", the nickname for an "image orticon", a camera tube used in television cameras.
In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event to honor shows broadcast nationwide on broadcast television. In 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) was formed in New York City as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast. While the ATAS held a separate ceremony to honor locally aired shows in the Los Angeles area, the NATAS established regional chapters throughout the rest of the United States, each developing its own local Emmy ceremony for programming. local.
Originally, only one Emmy ceremony was held a year to honor nationally broadcast shows in the United States. In 1974, the first Daytime Emmy ceremony was held to specifically honor achievements in national daytime programming. Other area-specific Emmy ceremonies soon followed. Also, in the early 1970s the International Emmy Awards, which recognize television shows produced and initially broadcast outside of the United States, were created in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the appearance of these separate, area-specific events, they appear along with the Primetime Emmy Awards in official ATAS records.
In 1977, due to various conflicts, ATAS and NATAS broke their ties. They agreed to share ownership of the Emmy statuette and brand, with each managing a specific set of award events. There was an exception regarding the Engineering Awards (those honoring individuals, companies or scientific or technical organizations in recognition of significant developments and contributions to engineering and technology aspects of television): NATAS continues to administer the Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards, while ATAS handles the Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards separately.
With the rise of cable television in the 1980s, cable shows were first eligible for the Prime Time Emmys in 1988, and the Daytime Emmys in 1989. In 2011, the The ABC Television Network canceled the soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live, and sold the licensing rights to both shows to production company Prospect Park so they could continue to stream from television; this prompted NATAS to create a new Daytime Emmys category for the 2013 ceremony to honor such web-only series. ATAS also began accepting streaming original television programs in 2013.
In December 2021, ATAS and NATAS announced a major realignment of the National Emmy Awards ceremonies in response to the growth of streaming TV shows, blurring the lines in determining which shows make it into Daytime or into the Primetime. The scope of each of the ceremonies will now revolve around factors such as the theme and the frequency of said programming, instead of parts of the day. Among the major changes, daytime dramas would remain on the Daytime Emmys, but most other scripted dramas and comedies would move to the prime-time Emmys, all children's programming would move to the newly created Children's and Family Emmys which The NATAS previously announced in November 2021, [The breakfast shows would move from the Daytime Emmys to the News and Documentary Emmys, and the talk shows would be split between the Daytime Emmys and the Prime Time Emmys based on "characteristics of format and style that reflect current programming in the daytime or nighttime slot". Realignment of game shows and instructional programming categories will be determined later in 2023.
Organizations
Three related organizations present the Emmys:
- The Academy of Arts and Television SciencesAcademy of Television Arts " Sciences) honors television in Diurno (first time). It doesn't include sports.
- The National Academy of Arts and Television SciencesNational Academy of Television Arts & Sciences) recognises sports programming, documentary and noticiera in daytime.
- The International Academy of Arts and Television SciencesInternational Academy of Television Arts & Sciences) honors native programming outside the United States.
The best known are the Primetime Emmy Awards, followed by the Daytime Emmy Awards, both have their categories from the Emmys to the Creative Arts (Creative Arts Emmys).
History of the statue
It had its origins in the term Immy, which was used in the early days of television to identify the camera's image recording tube. The initials of the word "image" in diminutive, Immy, became the name Emmy, with a more feminine character. The statuette, which represents a woman, was designed by engineer Louis McManus, whose model was his wife. Her statue was the last to arrive of the 48 that entered the contest, and she won the competition.
The wings represent the muse of art and the atom represents the "electron of science".
Primetime Emmy Awards
The Primetime Emmy Awards are presented in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming. The ceremony is held in mid-September, the Sunday before the start of the fall television season.
ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox networks rotate to broadcast the awards on television each year.
In Spain the last edition was broadcast live on the DKISS network.
In Latin America they are broadcast every year on TNT and TNT Series
Hispanictime Emmy Awards
The Hispanictime Emmy Awards are presented in recognition of excellence in US Spanish-language television programming on time (Hispanictime). They were first celebrated during the Primetime Emmy Awards and Daytime Emmy Awards in 2002.
The Univision, Telemundo and Azteca América networks rotate to broadcast the awards on television each year.
In Spain the last edition was broadcast live entirely by the DKISS network.
In Latin America, the last edition was broadcast live entirely by the networks: Azteca Uno (Mexico), Azteca Guatemala, Azteca Honduras, TNT Latin America and TNT Brazil
Daytime Emmy Awards
The Daytime Emmy Awards are presented in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming. They were first held during the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1972, getting their own ceremony in 1974.
Sports Awards
The Sports Emmy Awards are presented for excellence in sports programming. The awards ceremony takes place every spring, usually sometime in the last two weeks in April or the first week of May, and takes place on a Monday night in New York.
International Emmy Awards
The International Emmy Awards have been presented since 1973 by the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to television programs that have been produced and broadcast outside the United States. York. Includes all programming in the original English version broadcast by at least one free-to-air TV channel nationwide in at least one country.
In Spain the last edition was broadcast live on the DKISS channel.
News and Documentary
The Documentary and News Emmy Awards are presented for excellence in national news and documentary programming. The award ceremony is held every fall.
Technology and Engineering
The Engineering and Technology Emmy Awards are presented to individuals, companies, or to scientific or technical organizations, in recognition of progress and contributions to the engineering and technological aspects of television.