CNN nominated for News and Documentary Emmys…
Broadcasting & Cable’s John Eggerton writes the News and Documentary Emmy nominations which were announced today. CNN is in a peculiar spot. Its cancelled Newsnight is up against the program that replaced it, Anderson Cooper 360, for the Oustanding Feature Story in a Newscast category. Though it’s not clear from the article that the 360 nomination in that category occurred after Newsnight was cancelled or it occurred when both programs were on the air.
The cable leader was not CNN or Fox, the latter does not enter, but History Channel with a dozen nominations, followed by National Geographic (OK, Fox part-enters since it is part owner, but FNC does not submit nominations), Cinemax with seven, HBO and CNN six apiece, and Discovery with five.
Can anyone explain why FNC does not enter? Certainly, they had some great coverage of the Katrina aftermath.
Comment by Scott — July 19, 2006 @ 11:03 am
After FNC submitted entries for five years without getting a single Emmy nomination, Roger Ailes concluded that the nomination process was broken and that Fox was being “blocked.” In protest, Ailes resigned from the National Academy of Arts & Sciences, and FNC hasn’t submitted anything for consideration since then.
My next post will have a link to the relevant article if the blog allows it.
Comment by David — July 19, 2006 @ 11:57 am
Here’s the article (from B&C) with more detail on why FNC doesn’t compete for the Emmys…
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA489027.html
Comment by David — July 19, 2006 @ 11:57 am
Good article. Do you know if anyone from the academy has made a serious effort to persuade Roger Ailes to rejoin and start submitting stories for nomination again? Have any reforms been made in the process since this article? If I was an academy official, I would want FNC included given their popularity, high media profile, and the good quality of many of their reporters.
Comment by Scott — July 19, 2006 @ 2:52 pm
I doubt that anything would persuade Ailes to rejoin the academy and resume submitting stories. If, as some suspect, the academy officials are most interested in furthering a left-wing agenda, Ailes SHOULDN’T consider reversing his decision; FNC is many things but a lefty propaganda tool isn’t one of them. But even if the officials really are looking for quality, Ailes — like too many people at Fox nowadays — has such a large ego that I doubt that he’d admit it and backtrack.
Does anyone know offhand how many Emmys CNN won in its first five years? I have to wonder if FNC’s failure to win any in that time has anything to do with the fact that academy officials simply felt that it hadn’t proven itself yet.
Comment by David Zinkin — July 19, 2006 @ 4:57 pm