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; plus Morning News and Breaking News.
Some former KING folks won: Jim Dever of Evening for Program Host and investigative reporter Kristin Goodwillie won 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 information and score key, emotional on-camera interviews. Good for him to speak out. He needed a TUX badly, however. No polos in 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, Spot News, Team and Continuing Coverage.
Fox 13 won for coverage of Kohlberger-Idaho murders. Matthew Smith of Fox 13 won in a writing category.
KOMO was shut out! They claim they are the ratings leader in Seattle, so do they care if they don't win. Oh, yeeahhhh.
Spokane's KXLY and KHQ won a couple in the small market categories.
Laurel Porter, Kyle Iboshi and Katherine Cook all won categories for Portland's KGW. KOIN's retired longtime anchor Jeff Gianola won for his personal story about his cochlear implant, called 'Journey Out of Silence.' OPB won several categories.
Kraken Hockey Network took down a couple, including the pre-game show.
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 acknowledge 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.
Meanwhile, 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.
Full list of winners here noted by the Emmy image next to the winner:
https://natasnw.org/emmy-awards/nominees/
You're welcome. Just wanted to let you faithful readers know, if interested. I went back and corrected a few original errors. Thanks.
I have always wondered what these mean in terms of- there must be some emmy awards that are relevant, and some that are just trumped up categories. Are some "wins" actually just that? Thought of high in the inner circles of the business?
ReplyDeleteLocal.Emmys are prevalent in TV markets with so many overblown categories and big numbers of nominees from companies who are NOT on TV, all designed to drive revenue for the organization. Their value has diminished as a result. They were far more valued years ago when there were limited, meaningful categories and hard competition. As a fellow blogger has written, they have become participation trophies, given away like chiclets. That said, I think the National Emmys still have some reputational weight, but mostly only in NYC and LA.
ReplyDeleteThank you for enduring this spectacle of an awards show and reporting on it for us readers!
ReplyDeleteJim Nelson's speech was the highlight of the night! He showed that he is in this business for the right reasons. KING is lucky to have him!
It is good news for KIRO that they won some awards! Perhaps it will give Apollo/Cox some motivation to invest a little more in the station.
As for the King County Deptartment of Natural Resources, Fishboat Media, and Oregon Football, why on earth did they this competition? They aren't TV news outlets. Is this competition now open to all outlets who produce visual media?
It's been that way for a while now, I believe, and I it weakens the entire contest and program. The TV people sitting at the tables are saying out loud to each other, "Sound Transit got an Emmy." It's been an obvious money grab for more categories and entries and nominees and dinner tickets. NATAS had to reinvent the revenue stream. If I were a judge and saw these entries, I would abstain.
DeleteHow dissapointing to see this competition sink to such lows. I wouldn't mind seeing independent journalists enter and win awards. But not government agencies!
DeleteOn Saturday night, Greg Copeland and Parella Lewis stayed behind to cover at KING. He also read the sports and had a good, sarcastic line (ad-libbed?) about the OKC Thunder's elimination from the NBA Playoffs.
ReplyDeleteDid that Dusty Baker guy survive his K5 gaffe? On Sunday night, Madison Wade (apparently still on-air) also did sports. Seems like this weekend might've been the time for Baker to make an appearance.
This past weekend would have been a good time for Baker to make an appearence. He needs to start working on redeeming himself after his gaffe, and the World Cup is fast approaching!
DeleteInteresting, I would have expected Orsuto to handle with Egan at the dinner, but not using Baker is a bit of a surprise even at this early stage. Maybe he's still moving. I have not heard any major blowback on his post. A top manager told me they didn't think it was done purposely, but said things like that can chip away at cred. As I think I posted previously, it was looked at as mostly a bad first impression.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, does anyone know the KING awards budget?
ReplyDeleteI wish I did. I would be curious to know just how much all the stations, especially KING, spend on entering competitions like this.
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