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- Why do they call the Emmy Award “Emmy”? “It’s a feminization of ‘Immy,’ which is short for the image orthicon tube,” explains John Leverence, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences svp awards. The image orthicon, which revolutionized TV, was originally built to guide flying explosive weapons in World War II.
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Aug 16, 2011 · Why do they call the Emmy Award “Emmy”? “It’s a feminization of ‘Immy,’ which is short for the image orthicon tube,” explains John Leverence, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ...
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The 63rd annual Primetime Emmy Award nominees were announced...
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Sep 22, 2019 · According to the Emmys site, Syd Cassyd, who founded the organization in 1946, suggested naming the award “Ike,” which was the nickname for the iconoscope tube, which was used in television...
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- How Did The Emmys Get Their Name?
- Who Designed The Emmy Statuette?
- When Were The First Emmys held?
Syd Cassyd, who founded the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 1946, originally did not want to hand out awards, according to the academy’s official site. He eventually changed his mind, but his first suggestion for the new award’s name was “Ike,” the nickname for an iconoscopetube, the first practical video camera tube to be used in early TV...
The Television Academy rejected 47 proposals before accepting the statuette designed by television engineer Louis McManus, whose wife served as its model for the winged woman, who is holding an atom. Her wings represented the muse of art, and the atom and its electrons the science and technology of the new medium. McManus was presented with an Emmy...
The first Emmy Awards, which only honored Los Angeles programming, were held on January 25, 1949, at the Hollywood Athletic Club in Los Angeles.
The Emmy® Awards are conceived in 1948. The Television Academy’s founding fathers struggle to name the award: Television Academy founder Sid Cassyd suggests “Ike,” the nickname for the television iconoscope tube.
Sep 18, 2015 · The initial proposal of “Immy” was changed to “Emmy” because it sounded more like a name that might belong to the the woman in the statuette, according to the Academy’s official history of the...
The Emmy Awards, or Emmys, are an extensive range of awards for artistic and technical merit for the worldwide television industry. A number of annual Emmy Award ceremonies are held throughout the year, each with their own set of rules and award categories.
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The Academy members liked it, but felt is should be more feminine, to match the statuette, so switched it to the name “Emmy”. Runner up for the name of the award was “Ike”, suggested by Academy founder Syd Cassyd.
