Emmy Award

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Emmy Award
Comedian Garry Shandling during the rehearsal of the 45th Primetime Emmy Awards, 1993
Awarded forExcellence in the television industry
CountryUnited States
Presented byATAS/NATAS/IATAS
First awardedJanuary 25, 1949; 75 years ago (1949-01-25)
WebsiteATAS Official Emmy website
NATAS Official Emmy website
IATAS Official Emmy website

The Emmy Awards are United States television production awards which are given out each year. They are the television version of the Academy Awards. The first Emmy Awards were given out on January 25, 1949 at the Hollywood Athletic Club. Shirley Dinsdale was the very first person to be given an Emmy in the first awards ceremony.

Three organizations give Emmy Awards:

The best-known of the awards are the Primetime Awards (some of which are named "Creative Arts Emmys") and the Daytime Emmy Awards.

The Emmy Awards is a statuette of a woman with wings holding an atom. It was created by television engineer Louis McManus, using his wife as a model. The trophies are made by a company that has a manufacturing site at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, a prison in El Dorado, Kansas.

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