The Emmy Award Winning Video Collection consists of videos from 1989 to 2004 of some of the News and Documentary nominees and winners as well as some of the Sports nominees and winners. All of the videos in the collection are the actual production videos predominately recorded on Beta Cam SP’s, Beta Cam’s, and 3/4 inch VHS Tapes from the individual networks that were presented as a nominee in the corresponding categories. This collection also contains some of the documents from the Emmy Awards that lists the nominees and winners of each category for both News and Documentary from 1979 to 2000 and Sports from 1990 to 2000.
The Emmy Award Winning Video Collection was deposited at Marist College in 1997.
The Emmy Awards are hosted by the Academy of Television Arts Sciences. The Academy was founded by Syd Cassyd in 1946, just one month after network television was created. The nonprofit organization is devoted to advancement of telecommunications arts and sciences and to fostering creative leadership in the telecommunications industry. It is also the only major organization devoted entirely to television.
The first Emmy Awards ceremony was held in 1949. This event was created to recognize excellence in television programming. The name “Emmy” came from “Immy,” a nickname for the image orthicon camera tube, which was a key element in the development of modern television. The word was feminized as “Emmy” to complement the design chosen for the statuette, which features a winged woman holding an atom. There are three sister organizations that hold the Emmy Awards each year: the Academy of Television Arts Sciences (Primetime), the National Academy of Television Arts Sciences (Daytime, Sports, News and Documentary), and the International Academy of Television Arts Sciences (International).
All videos contained in this collection were nominated for a category in either the News and Documentary or Sports Emmy Awards Ceremony. Some titles for the News and Documentary videos include “Iraq Invades Kuwait,” “Flood of '93,” and “CNN's Coverage of the Olympic Park Bombing;” some of the Sports titles include “1992 Winter Olympics,” “This Is The NFL,” “X–Games,” and “Babe Ruth.”
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