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The '''Emmy Award''' is a television production award, similar in nature to the [[Peabody Award]]s but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the [[Oscars]].[http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/09/070917_emmy.shtml]dew BBC Learning English | Emmy awards
The '''Emmy Award''' is a television production award, similar in nature to the [[Peabody Award]]s but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the [[Oscars]].[http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2007/09/070917_emmy.shtml]
Three related but separate organizations present Emmy Awards:
Three related but separate organizations present Emmy Awards:
* the [[Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]] honors national prime time entertainment excluding sports;
* the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences honors national prime time entertainment excluding sports;
* the [[National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences|National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]] recognizes daytime, sports, news and documentary programming, and;
* the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences recognizes daytime, sports, news and documentary programming, and;
* the [[International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences|International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]] honors all programming produced and originally aired outside the United States.
* the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences]] honors all programming produced and originally aired outside the United States.
The best-known within the US are the Primetime Emmy Award, and the Daytime Emmy Awards, with both having categories classified as Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
The best-known within the US are the Primetime Emmy Award, and the Daytime Emmy Awards, with both having categories classified as Creative Arts Emmy Awards.
==History==
==History==
The first Emmy Awards were presented on January 25, 1949 at the Hollywood Athletic Club. The name "Emmy" was a feminization of "immy", a nickname used for the image orthicon tubes that were common in early television cameras. Shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy in the first awards ceremony. The Emmy Awards trophies are currently made by a private company with a manufacturing site at the maximum security El Dorado Correctional Facility, in El Dorado, Kansas.
The first Emmy Awards were presented on January 25, 1949 at the Hollywood Athletic Club. The name "Emmy" was a feminization of "immy", a nickname used for the '''image orthicon''' tubes that were common in early television cameras. Shirley Dinsdale has the distinction of receiving the very first Emmy in the first awards ceremony. The Emmy Awards trophies are currently made by a private company with a manufacturing site at the maximum security El Dorado Correctional Facility, in El Dorado, Kansas.
The statuette of a winged woman holding an atom has since become the symbol of the TV Academies' goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television: The wings represent the muse of art; the atom the electron of science.
The statuette of a winged woman holding an atom has since become the symbol of the TV Academies' goal of supporting and uplifting the art and science of television: The wings represent the muse of art; the atom the electron of science.