News 12 Connecticut Honored with 35 New York Emmy Award Nominations

(NORWALK, CT, February 5, 2014) – The New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored News 12 Connecticut with 35 New York Emmy® Award nominations.  The award nominations were announced at the studios of CUNY-TV in New York City. 

"We’re incredibly proud of these 35 nominations and the talented staff who achieved them,” said Tom Appleby, News Director, News 12 Connecticut. “Every day we strive to deliver on our commitment to provide unique local coverage of the southwestern Connecticut communities and neighborhoods we serve, and we are honored to be recognized for that effort.”

The 2014 Emmy® Awards will be presented on Sunday, March 30, 2014 at The Marriott Marquee Times Square in New York City.  The New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, founded in 1955, is the preeminent membership organization serving the television industry. NY NATAS encourages the pursuit of excellence and promotes the highest standards of quality in television by conferring the industry’s classic and most-coveted peer-recognition symbol of distinction – the Emmy®.

News 12 Networks, which is comprised of seven individual local 24-hour news channels across Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, received a total of 104 New York State Emmy® Award nominations this year, more than any other news organization.

News 12 Connecticut New York Emmy® Award Nominations: 

·         News Excellence: News 12 Connecticut

·         Business/Consumer: News Feature: Four Plus

·         Children/Youth Programming: Meteorologist Miles Katz

·         Entertainment: News: (2) Flagpole Radio Café and Not Really a Sacrifice

·         Feature News Report: Light: Out of Sight

·         General Assignment Report: (2)  Sally's Place and Chicken Soup

·         Historical/Cultural: News: (2) The Dating Game and Progression of a Dream

·         Historical/Cultural: Program Feature/Segment: They Call Me Molasses

·         Human Interest: News: (2) Wee Warrior and What's In A Sign?

·         Human Interest: Program Feature/Segment: Reaching Kyle

·         Military: Program: The Accidental Spy

·         Religion: News: (2) Breaking Barriers and The Calling

·         Religion: Program: Restoring Glory

·         Sports: News Single Story: Nigerian Hoop Dreams Realized in America

·         Teen Programming: Growing Sober

·         Weather: News: (2) Snow Brigade and White Sabbath

·         Writer: News: (2) Andrea Cyr and Kristi Olds

·         Video Journalist: Lori Golias

·         Journalistic Enterprise: Christopher Wood

·         Editor: News: (3) Dan Renzetti and Christopher Wood and Andrew Christman

·         Photographer: News: (3) Dan Renzetti and Christopher Wood and Andrew Christman

·         On Camera Talent: Reporter - Features/Human Interest: (2) Kathryn Hauser and Kristi Olds

·         On Camera Talent: Reporter – Live: Brandon Walker

About News 12 Connecticut

News 12 Connecticut is the exclusive 24-hour local news channel dedicated to covering the southwestern Connecticut area, exclusively available on the local Cablevision cable system. News 12 Connecticut is a part of News 12 Networks, the country’s first, largest, and most watched regional news network.  Launched in 1986, today the network includes seven individual local 24-hour news channels, five traffic and weather channels, the award winning news12.com, and News 12 Interactive, channel 612 on Optimum TV.   News 12 Networks is owned and operated by Cablevision Systems Corporation.