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closeThursday, Oct. 22, 2009
Lone Star Emmys: Everyone's a winner, but some are bigger winners than others
Robert Philpot
The Lone Star Emmy Awards were presented last weekend, with WFAA/Channel 8 and KXAS/Channel 5 coming away with armloads. But practically every DFW station won at least one.
Not kidding when I say I've been trying to get this post up for days. There are a lot of categories in the Lone Star Emmy Awards, and the categories aren't always the easiest things to translate into English. Not to mention that when stations win them, they tend to boast about their own wins without acknowledging anyone else's.
WFAA/Channel 8, however, was the big winner. WFAA won 14 awards, including top awards for news excellence and station excellence. Univision’s KUVN/Channel 23 also won station excellence for its program Siempre Presente, which was among four Lone Star Emmys for the station, including Texas Heritage -- News Single Story/Series/Feature for Patriotas Del Sur I & II, anchored and reported by Angel Pedrero.
WFAA’s other awards included best 10 p.m. newscast in the top 25 Texas markets; best sportscast; and best promotion/campaign for Dale & Delkus/Boston Legal, a series of promos featuring bantering sports anchor in a recurring riff on Boston Legal’s show-closing conversations between Alan Shore and Denny Crane. Here’s one of those promos:
Hansen also won in the cumbersomely named On-Camera Talent Commentator/Editorialist/Performer/Narrator category for his "Hansen Unplugged" commentaries, as did Gordon Keith for his intriguingly titled Angry Fan, Vampire and Disaster. Keith's now sadly defunct The Gordo Keith Show won the Magainze Program -- Program/Special Emmy for an installment titled Budgets, Will Smith, Racial Issues & Super Heroes.
KXAS/Channel 5 won 11 awards, which they have handily announced here. NBC 5 6 a.m. today won for best morning newscast among the Top 25 Texas markets. NBC-5’s Matt Barrie won for sports reporting, and for Feature News Report -- Serious Feature/Series for "A Game of Hope," his report on incarcerated teens finding redemption through football, which you can see here.
Nada Ruddock, NBC-5's director of Community Affairs, won the Community Service Emmy for her work in promoting the 2009 Komen Race for the Cure. NBC-5's other Lone Star Emmys included Specialty Assignment Report -- Program/Special/Feature/Segment for ”Spotlight: Cleared By DNA,“ reported by Kristi Nelson, and Writer/News for "Beijing Bound," written and reported by Brian Curtis.
Nancy Leal of Telemundo’s KXTX/Channel 39 won a Lone Star Emmy in the On-Camera Talent/News Anchor category. KDFW/Channel 4’s Dan Henry won for weather anchor. Daniel Morales of the Fort Worth-based Telemundo Production Center won in the Features/Human Interest reporting category.
KTVT/Channel 11’s Bennett Cunningham won in the investigative-reporter category. Cunningham and CBS-11’s Jack Fink won in Continuing Coverage for reporting on salaries at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, and Cunningham was also the reporter on a DART travel-spending investigation that won in the Politics/Government -- News Single Story/Series/Feature category.
KDFW/Channel 4’s special Avoid the Ditch in Your Digital Switch, anchored by consumer reporter Steve Noviello, won for News Special. Fox-4 investigative reporter Becky Oliver was the lead reporter on Milking Medicare, which won in the Investigative Report -- Series category. Fox-4’s "Cranky Tim" promos featuring Good Day co-host Tim Ryan won for best single-spot news promo. In all, Fox-4 won four Lone Star Emmys.
KERA/Channel 13 won four Emmys, including Health/Science -- News Single Story/Series/Feature for The Chip That Jack Built: Jack Kilby and the Invention of the Microchip, written, directed and produced by Linda Stogner (who also won an editing Emmy for the story); Texas Heritage -- Program Feature/Segment for "High Hopes," a segment of Nowhere But Texas 2 produced and directed by Tom Pribyl; and Texas Heritage -- Program/Special for Nowhere But Texas 2: Mighty Mites, directed and produced by Stogner. Pribyl was also honored for his work on The Chip That Jack Built and Mighty Mites; Therese Powell produced both Emmy-winning Nowhere But Texas 2 entries, and Rick Thompson worked on Chip and both Texas segments. Rob Tranchin and Gila Espinoza also received Emmys for various work on the films.
KDAF/Channel 33 won three Emmys, among them Arts/Entertainment -- News Single Story/Series /Feature for "Strings, Symphony and Cyberspace," reported by Walt Maciborski; Politics/Government -- Program/Special/Feature/Segment for Canvassing the Community, reported by Dawn Tongish; and Sports -- One Time Special for Farewell to Texas Stadium, anchored by Dave Crome, with reporting by Desmond Purnell.
KTXA/Channel 21 received the Promotion -- Program -- Sports Emmy for TXA 21: Home fo the Mavs.
Whew. And that wasn't even a comprehensive list, but you can find that here, where it would be nice if they would provide links so I wouldn't spend so much time searching for them.
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