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Nov 5, 2019 · 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...
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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 svp awards. The...
The award depicts a winged woman holding an atom, the wings representin... Television engineer Louis McManus used his wife Dorothy to design the Emmy statuette.
- 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.
Runner up for the name of the award was “Ike”, suggested by Academy founder Syd Cassyd. In this case, he was naming it after the Iconoscope tube, which incidentally got its name from the Greek εἰκών (“image”).
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Sep 22, 2019 · First, to be clear on what we’re talking about, “Emmy” refers to the award itself. The trophy of the winged lady holding the big atom is an Emmy. (We’ll get to more details on why it looks...
