KING wins Overall Excellence with GM Christy Moreno bringing some 50 people on stage and acknowledging how difficult a year it has been under the Nexstar/Tegna issue. It may get better, it may get worse. The courts will decide.
Good night for KIRO, which should make its fired ND Laura Evans a bit happier: Elle Thomas won the News Anchor Emmy, Chief Met Morgan Palmer for Weather, Morning News and Spot News.
Some former KING folks won: Jim Dever of Evening for Program Host and investigative reporter Kristin Goodwillie won a couple for her work, as did Bridget Chavez and Jim Nelson, who strongly and and passionately blasted social influencers in his thank you speech. He said they did not measure up to the true storytellers of TV news, who report the most important news informtion and score key, emotional on-camera interviews. Good for him to speak out. He needed a TUX badly, however. Not primetime.
Chris Egan of KING won for Sports Reporting, but Neil Everett of the Trailblazers Network won Sports Anchor again, based partially on his ESPN national and seasonal rep for the second year. Believe me, the local sports guys have railed against NATAS for allowing him to compete against those nominees who anchor sportscasts night after night. Point well taken.
KING won Evening News and Breaking News.
KOMO did not seem to do very well on any significant awards that I saw, nor did FOX 13
KXLY and KHQ won a couple in small market entries.
Kraken Hockey Network took down a couple despite a down NHL year.
This note: There were so many awards for long form content and short form content in a bunch of cranked-up categories, I lost track. It's more categories, more money for entries, nominees and dinner tickets for the org.
The show ran almost 30 minutes over and Chris Cashman wore the ugliest gold suit in creation. He did acknowledged that it was his 15th year of hosting despite this year's conflict of interest working at KING while doing the honors, thanking the GM.
Meawhile, how does the KING County Dept. of Natural Resources, Fishboat Media,Oregon Football and other obscure outfits win Emmys? They spend money to enter and attend the dinner and make it appear eclectic and fair, that's how.
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