Primetime Emmys: Celebrating The Best Of TV

The “Primetime Emmy Awards”, sometimes known as “Primetime Emmys“, are among the many Emmy Awards given for artistic and technical excellence in the American television industry. The Primetime Emmy Awards are given by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) in recognition of outstanding work in American primetime tv programming. The award categories are broken down into three classes: regular Primetime Emmy Awards, Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards to acknowledge technical and other similar behind-the-scenes accomplishments, and Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards to honor noteworthy contributions to the engineering and technological facets of television. Before the International Emmy Award and the Daytime Emmy Award were established in the early 1970s to extend the Emmy to other facets of the television industry, the award was simply known as the “Emmy Award” when it was first presented in 1949.

Every September, on the Sunday before the commencement of the fall television season, the Primetime Emmy Awards are broadcast on television. Since 1995, the four main television networks (ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC) have alternated hosting the Emmy Awards ceremony every four years.

This award was presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

History

Syd Cassyd established the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) in 1946. At the Hollywood Athletic Club, on January 25, 1949, the first Emmy Awards presentation took place. There were only six awards given out, and tickets cost $5.

The Emmys were first used to honor local Los Angeles-produced and -aired television shows, but they quickly became a national ceremony in 1952 to celebrate initiatives seen across the country on broadcast television. For shows that were nationally televised in the US, there used to be just one Emmy ceremony conducted each year. When the “Outstanding Achievement in Daytime Programming” category was first created in 1968, judges had the option of awarding one Emmy or none at all, and in the end, they decided that no one should be nominated because of the voting regulations of the day.

Statuette

Louis McManus was the designer of the “Emmy statuette”. It combines imagery for the arts and sciences by showing a winged muse grasping an electron. After 47 other ideas were turned down, the Emmy statuette’s final design was selected. The name “Emmy” is derived from the nickname “Immy,” which was given to the image-orthicon camera tube, a notable technological advance in television image capture in the 1940s. The name “Immy” was changed to “Emmy” because the monument depicts a woman clutching an electron.

It takes five and a half hours to create the Primetime Emmy statuette, which is comprised of copper, nickel, silver, and gold. Each Emmy has a six-pound, 12-ounce weight.

Each category’s winners receive a different amount of statuettes. No team member is certain of receiving their own trophy. However, winners in big teams (like writers) can spend about $400 on their own awards.

Rules

According to the Primetime Emmy Award regulations, a show must have its premiere on American television between June 1 and May 31 of any given year in order to be eligible. A show must air between 6:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. to at least 50% of the nation in order to qualify as a national primetime show. It is prohibited for a show to compete in both the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Daytime Emmy Awards, as well as any other national Emmy competition. The daytime or primetime Emmy Awards are the only categories that syndication shows can be entered in (if they still achieve 50% national reach), but not both. In order to be eligible for the Daytime Emmy Awards, game shows that meet the 50 percent requirement must typically air before 8 p.m. (this includes the former “access hour” from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.); otherwise, they are only eligible for the Primetime Emmy Awards. Like shows in syndication, streaming television shows can only enter one of the national Emmy categories, and they must be accessible to more than 50% of the country via download or streaming.