Vanessa Williams Host (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
The 36th annual Daytime Emmy Awards for 2009 was held in Los Angeles, California.
The Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards (for film), Grammy Awards (for music) and Tony Awards (for stage).
The Emmy is presented in various sectors of the television industry, including entertainment programming, news and documentary shows, and sports programming.
Rachel Melvin (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
The best known of these ceremonies are the Primetime Emmy Awards, honoring excellence in American primetime television programming (excluding sports), and the Daytime Emmy Awards, honoring excellence in American daytime television programming.
The first Emmy Awards were presented on January 25, 1949 at the Hollywood Athletic Club, but solely to honor shows produced and aired locally in the Los Angeles area.
In the 1950s, the ATAS expanded the Emmys into a national event, presenting the awards to shows broadcast nationwide. In 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) was formed in New York as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys. The NATAS also established regional chapters throughout the United States, with each one developing their own local Emmy awards show for local programming.
Gilles Marini & Vanessa Williams (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Originally there was only one Emmy Awards ceremony held per year to honor shows nationally broadcast in the United States. That changed when the Daytime Emmy Awards, a separate awards show specifically just for daytime programming, was first held in 1974.
Other area-specific Emmy Awards ceremonies followed. The International Emmy Awards, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U.S., was established in the early 1970s. Meanwhile, all Emmys awarded prior to the emergence of these separate, area-specific ceremonies are listed along with the Primetime Emmy Awards in the ATAS' official records.
Cast & crew of The Bold & the Beautiful (AP Photo/Matt Sayles)
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The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences was founded by my Great Uncle, Syd Cassyd, and Candice Bergen's father, Edgar.
As Uncle Syd explained it, the original intention of the Emmy's Founders that the award would be given out only when there was a special achievement. The ‘annual’ part came about since all the other awards like the Oscars were once a year.
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