This news was originally published in [itvt] Issue 6.85 dated Wednesday July 26, 2006.
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Interactive Media Peer Group has just revealed the winners of the 2005-6 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Television. (Note: the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is one of two organizations behind the US television industry's annual Emmy Awards--the other is the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Both organizations have, for some time now, given out Emmy Awards for interactive television; the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' ITV Emmys are for creative achievement while the National Academy's Emmys are technology-focused. The Television Academy's interactive TV Emmys this year recognize achievement in two categories: programming designed for television and programming designed for new delivery platforms.)
The ITV Emmy winners were announced minutes ago at the American Film Institute Digital Content Festival by Brian Seth Hurst, co-governor of the Interactive Media Peer Group. The winners will be presented with their awards at the Television Academy's Creative Arts Awards event on August 19th at the Shrine Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles.
The winner of the Award for Outstanding Achievement for Enhanced or Interactive Programming: Television is the TiVo Service (TiVo). The other finalists in this category were: AOL Music on Demand (AOL/Time Warner Cable/Zetools); CNN Enhanced (CNN); and DirecTV Interactive Sports (DirecTV).
The winner of the Award for Outstanding Achievement for Enhanced or Interactive Programming: New Delivery Platforms is the ABC.com Full Episode Streaming Player (ABC). The other finalists in this category were Danny Bowles and the Jade Treasure, Stranger Adventures (Riddle Productions in association with Red Car); MLB.TV Mosaic (Major League Baseball/Ensequence); and Vongo Video Download Service (Starz Entertainment Group).
The finalists were selected by the membership of the Television Academy's Interactive Media Peer Group, who made their selections through an online voting system. The winners were then chosen by a "Blue Ribbon" panel that met July 10th at the Academy. The Blue Ribbon panel was composed of:
Richard Cardran, Zetools
Jon Dean, DirecTV
Patrick Donoghue, Cablevision
Joanna Drake Earl, Current Media
Craig Engler, SciFi Channel
Shawn Gold, MySpace
Rob Hayes, Showtime
Scott Holmes, United Future
Lynda Keeler, Delight Networks
Brian Kralyevich, Microsoft eHome
Ross Levinsohn, Fox Interactive
Rebecca Lim, Starz Encore Group
John Penney, HBO
Margret Schmidt, TiVo
Tim Shey, Shey Media
Erik Smith, MobiTV
Brinley Turner, CBS/Innertube
Bill Via, V Street Productions
The 2005-6 Interactive Media Peer Group Awards Working Group is Co-chaired by David Jensen of Zetools and Marcia Zellers of the AFI Digital Content Lab. The Working Group is composed of Ty Ahmad-Taylor, Comcast; Adam Bain, Fox Interactive; Patrick Donoghue, Cablevision; Marcelino Ford-Livene, Intel (note: Ford-Livene is co-governor of the Interactive Media Peer Group); Julie Glassman; Brian Seth Hurst, Opportunity Management Company (note: Hurst is co-governor of the Interactive Media Peer Group); Brent Imai; Geoff Katz, TiVo; Bob Kernen, A&E; Dale Herigstad, Schematic; Margie Gilmore and Paul Marcum, Yahoo!; and Bill Via, V Street Productions.
Congratulations to the winners and all the nominees!
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