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Dan Rather and Jon Stewart will be among the honorees at the 65th annual New York Emmy Awards Gala, set to take place on Saturday, Oct. 8 at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square.
Rather, the former anchor of CBS Evening News and a recent Peabody Award honoree, will receive the Governors’ Award in recognition of his 70-year career in broadcast journalism. Throughout his career, Rather has earned three news and documentary Emmys, including two competitive awards for Dan Rather Reports and a 2003 lifetime achievement award along with other correspondents from CBS’ long-running series 60 Minutes.
Stewart, who currently hosts The Problem With Jon Stewart on Apple TV+, will receive the President’s Award, shared with activist Jon Feal for their efforts on behalf of 9/11 first responders. In July 2019, Congress passed a bill that would continue the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund for decades,...
Dan Rather and Jon Stewart will be among the honorees at the 65th annual New York Emmy Awards Gala, set to take place on Saturday, Oct. 8 at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square.
Rather, the former anchor of CBS Evening News and a recent Peabody Award honoree, will receive the Governors’ Award in recognition of his 70-year career in broadcast journalism. Throughout his career, Rather has earned three news and documentary Emmys, including two competitive awards for Dan Rather Reports and a 2003 lifetime achievement award along with other correspondents from CBS’ long-running series 60 Minutes.
Stewart, who currently hosts The Problem With Jon Stewart on Apple TV+, will receive the President’s Award, shared with activist Jon Feal for their efforts on behalf of 9/11 first responders. In July 2019, Congress passed a bill that would continue the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund for decades,...
- 9/28/2022
- by Tyler Coates
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“All right. I am told there is a tie.”
— Presenter N.J. Burkett, president of the New York chapter of NATAS, at the 2014 News & Documentary Emmy Awards
For decades, the biggest names in television news were honored at the annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards through a voting system that was designed to generate a bewildering number of ties.
Since the awards were launched in 1980, more than 280 categories ended in ties, including some crazy ones in the early years. At the inaugural awards in 1980, there were two nine-way ties and an eight-way tie. In 1981, a category ended in a 21-way tie. By 1985, a total of 24 awards – nearly half of all the those presented – ended in ties. During the 1990s, there were 124 ties, averaging more than 12 a year.
Records provided to Deadline by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences reveal that since 1980, only four of 39 shows didn’t include at least one...
— Presenter N.J. Burkett, president of the New York chapter of NATAS, at the 2014 News & Documentary Emmy Awards
For decades, the biggest names in television news were honored at the annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards through a voting system that was designed to generate a bewildering number of ties.
Since the awards were launched in 1980, more than 280 categories ended in ties, including some crazy ones in the early years. At the inaugural awards in 1980, there were two nine-way ties and an eight-way tie. In 1981, a category ended in a 21-way tie. By 1985, a total of 24 awards – nearly half of all the those presented – ended in ties. During the 1990s, there were 124 ties, averaging more than 12 a year.
Records provided to Deadline by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences reveal that since 1980, only four of 39 shows didn’t include at least one...
- 9/25/2019
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
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