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Summer 2006 Telesphere

to read the latest from the world of NATAS.  Chicago/Midwest chapter news is highlighted.

This issue starts with an in-focus look at the recent Daytime Emmy Award Nominee announcement, broadcast live on ABC’s "The View." We go shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of other soap opera aficionados as they scream for their favorite stars hoping for nominations.

We then delve into what has recently been the hot-button issue that the entire broadcast media industry is talking about: the announcement by NATAS of the first Emmy Award for Non-Traditional Media, affectionately coined the "iPod-Emmy," in the Spring issue of Television Quarterly. We also take a look at the Lone Star chapter’s response to the challenge of launching the first Regional Emmy for this very same field of Emerging Media and the struggle to define just what this category is and who’s eligible to enter.

It seems everyone has a Hurricane Katrina saga, and our Cleveland chapter’s Bud Ford has quite an interesting one about a Big Easy PBS producer and his relocation to Ohio in the wake of the storm. And speaking of being shaken up, the announcement by UPN and the WB to form the new CW caught everyone by surprise. We take a look at two stations in our San Francisco chapter and see how they’re coping with the tremors of their brand new worlds.

In the spotlight, both Chicago and Nashville give us a personal look at their annual Emmy Award presentations; Heartland chapter takes its Road Show to Colorado Springs; Ohio Valley plans their next Fest on a riverboat; Pacific Southwest plans its first Gold Circle and Emmy Excellence gives every chapter a chance to have their regional winners’ work shine on our national website.