Sports And Tech Emmys Postponed Due To Coronavirus; Daytime Emmys Still On
The Nationwide Academy of Tv Arts & Sciences stated Friday that it’s suspending the 41st annual Sports activities Emmy Awards and 71st annual Expertise & Engineering Emmy Awards dinner, each of which had been scheduled for April.
The group stated it should look to maneuver each occasions to a later date this 12 months, and comes as a response to the rising world coronavirus pandemic.
The Sports activities Emmys had been set for April 28 within the Frederick P. Rose Corridor at Jazz at Lincoln Middle. Sports activities Emmy Award government director Justine Gubar stated the choice to postpone was “based mostly on authorities steerage relating to occasions of 500 folks or extra throughout the persevering with unfold of the novel coronavirus.”
The Expertise & Engineering Emmys dinner was scheduled for April 19 in Las Vegas as a kickoff to the Nationwide Affiliation of Broadcasters’ NABShow 2020, which was canceled earlier this week. The plan is to reschedule the ceremony to correspond with NAB’s fall conference in New York.
NATAS president and CEO Adam Sharp stated the group remains to be shifting ahead with the Daytime Emmy Awards on June 12-14 in Pasadena, and the Information & Documentary Emmy Awards in September in New York.
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“We’re intently monitoring public heath authorities’ steerage, searching for suggestions from our awards communities, and evaluating the pliability of our venue and manufacturing companions as we make determinations round these different occasions based mostly on day-to-day developments,” Sharp stated.
“In each case, the well being and security of our occasion attendees and workers will stay our paramount concern. We’re significantly grateful to and pleased with the hundreds of NATAS members throughout America’s native newsrooms who’re doing the front-line work of informing the general public on this time of tension, confusion, and ever-changing data.”
