How Network and Cable News Have Covered COVID-19
Original Airdates: May 1-3, 2020
TVC 491.1: A return visit by Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (aka the Daytime Emmys). Topics this segment include how viewership of the nightly network evening news broadcasts has increased by about 50 percent since the onset of the national lockdown in March, plus the impact that news coverage of COVID-19 may have on next year’s Emmy categories.
COVID-19’s Effect on the Sports Emmys and Other Awards Broadcast
Original Airdates: May 1-3, 2020
TVC 491.2: Part 2 of our conversation with Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The National Academy oversees The Daytime Emmys, the Sports Emmys, the News and Documentary Emmys, and the technical and engineering Emmys—the ceremonies for which have all been postponed for the time being because of the corona virus pandemic.
Rebranding the Daytime Emmys
Original Airdates: May 1-3, 2020
TVC 491.3: Adam Sharp, president of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, tells Ed the back story of the Daytime Emmys’ new logo—a dynamic new emblem that, in many respects, reflects the forward thinking embodied by the National Academy in recent years.
