Due to the Obama visit in the Green Bay market and the Digital Conversion deadline, we are extending the Chicago/Midwest Emmy Entry Deadline to Wednesday, June 17th, at 5 pm.  This is an extension from our original deadline of Friday, June 12th.  Please know that we do not normally extend the deadline but due to these special circumstances, we decided to make an exception.

Get credit where credit is due! -- Enter your work in the 2008-2009 Chicago/Midwest Emmy Awards -- where excellence is celebrated AND rewarded.  Wouldn’t it be great to add those Nominations to your resume and the Emmy statue to your shelf?  Review your best work from the last year and remember you must enter to be eligible to win. 

Deadline for Entries: Friday, June 17, 2009, 5:00 pm

Eligibility Period: June 1, 2008 - May 31, 2009

Markets Covered: Chicago, IL; Rockford, IL; Green Bay-Appleton, WI; Madison, WI; Milwaukee, WI; Peoria-Bloomington, IL;South Bend-Elkhart, IN; Wausau-Rhinelander, WI

Please know that the Emmy entry process is now online through Emmy Express. Enter your paperwork online with Emmy Express, pay online with a credit card with Emmy Express (or pay with a check that you send in with your entry DVD-R), and then mail or drop off your entry DVD-R with 2 copies of the entry form to the NATAS Chicago/Midwest office. Our address is 218 S. Wabash, Ste. 700, Chicago, IL 60604.

ENTER HERE -- Emmy Express Online Entering System

If you are entering from a television station or local cable network, please click here

If you are entering from a college, production company, or any other entity, please click here 

See video from past winners and nominees, go to http://www.chicagoemmyonline.org/news/winners-and-nominees/2007-2008-emmy-winners.php

• Produce NEWS or PROGRAMMING for your College or University?  We now have new plaque-eligible student production categories! Look for the STUDENT CATEGORIES S-1 to S-5 that are listed near the end of the category list. Download a flyer to post at your school about the student categories.
• Live and work in a SMALL or MEDIUM market? Download a flyer for posting about entering from smaller markets. Entry fees tiered by market size, so you'll pay less to enter the Emmy Awards!
• Produce LOCAL COMMERCIALS for businesses or for your station?  We have a COMMERCIAL ANNOUNCEMENT category, past winners include Superspots and Walter E. Smithe! Look for Category 17!
• Produce outstanding PUBLIC ACCESS Television?  Public Access programs are eligible!  Last year, Rocket Productions won for their production "El Camino a la Secundaria" which aired on Chicago's CAN-TV!
• The Chicago/Midwest Chapter has not raised the entry fees for nearly a decade!  In this tough economy, we're trying hard to keep our fees low despite rising costs.
• Entries accepted on DVD-R not VHS.
• Members pay less - Join online before you enter, go to: http://www.chicagoemmyonline.org/members-b.php
• Online payment with credit card (for membership and Emmy entry)

"It is gratifying and humbling to be judged as worthy by one’s colleagues.
The award has meant recognition of my work and skill set across North America."

Ravi Baichwal, ABC 7 Chicago Anchor, 2008 Emmy Winner

Download a flyer with quotes from other past winners. 

Entry and payment must be submitted online. If for some reason, you can not enter your entry online, email us at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it for an entry form or download it here: Chicago/Midwest Emmy Entry Form 2009.  Please contact the TV Academy office for more information at 312-369-8600 or at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

Q.  With the tough economy, is there a chance the entry fees could be reduced or lowered?
A.  Members do receive a lower entry fee, but the Chicago/Midwest Chapter has actually not raised the entry fees for nearly a decade.  The entry fees have to cover the costs of the Emmy statues, Emmy nomination certificates, printing of Emmy invitations, shipping of DVDs to be judged by other markets, judging fees to sister-chapters for providing peer judging panels, the photocopied lists of entries and nominees at the Nomination Party, expenses for the Emmy Express online software for entries and the entrant database, and keeping the Chapter up and running year long. 

Additionally, most Chapters charge a per name fee for entries, so a typical news report entry with a producer and reporter, for example, requires that both pay a fee to enter.  Our Chapter has worked very hard scrutinizing cost-saving measures to be able to hold the line and keep charging only one fee per entry no matter how many names are included on the entry.