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EMMY JUDGING ® 6th HD SEMINAR
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By Bob Goldberger
The Call for Entries has passed.
The DVDs delivered. The entry
fees paid (hopefully). Now comes
the excruciatingly long wait to find
out if your work will be nominated.
It’s all up to the judges, which
raises a lot of questions for many
of you, such as: Who are the
judges? How are they selected?
What makes them qualified to
judge my work?
The best place to start is at the beginning of the
process, the meeting of the Awards Chairs from all
20 regional chapters. Our Awards Chair for the
Northern California chapter is Javier Valencia. Last
year, he met with the other 19 regional Chairs and
Chapter Administrators to determine which chapters
will be “trading partners” this year. Javier says, ”A
few smaller chapters will trade all of their entries
with just one other region, but we find it works best
to select four or five different trading partners.”
That’s because a chapter our size has more than
900 entries, and that’s a lot of DVDs for another
chapter to try to judge within a few weeks. So, for
example, Breaking News entries may be sent to
Chicago for judging, while Documentaries are judged
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NATAS NIGHT A
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By Cynthia E. Zeiden, Activities/Programs Chair
Join us for an evening at c|net
Headquarters (235 Second Street, SF,
CA 94105) on Monday, March 26,
2007 from 7-9 p.m. At 7 p.m. we’ll
have registration, refreshments,
networking and a meet and greet with
a c|net Human Resources representa-
tive. c|net is looking for talented
people to join their team. At 7:30
p.m., we’ll start the program with a
tour of c|net, then Harry Fuller,
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San Francisco/Northern California Chapter
By Keith Sanders
Six years ago did you have HD in your home?
Probably not.
The SF/NorCal chapter’s first HD seminar oc-
curred late in 2001. The featured speaker was Sony
high-definition camera specialist Jeff Cree. His
background was not broadcast television…it was
feature films. But that’s not surprising. Many people
experienced HD theatricals at the Cineplex long
before being able to watch HD broadcasts at home.
In 2001, HDTVs on the showroom floor were still
outnumbered by platoons of cheap standard-defini-
tion sets. It’s true everyone gawked at the stunning
HD images, but reality set in as consumers pulled
out their wallets. Many decided they would still
rather fork over $300 for thirty-six inches of stan-
dard-definition color.
continued on page 4
HEADQUARTERS
HEADQUARTERS
Executive Editor, c|net News.com, will
talk about about c|net plans for the
future. We’ll see lots of samples of
c|net’s advanced media content.
We’ll also discuss the direction of
video on the web and how it will
affect the media industry. Admission
is free for NATAS members and guests
of c|net. RSVPs are necessary to
ensure a spot, e-mail:
cnet@emmysf.tv with your name and
affiliation or call: (650) 341-7786.
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continued from page 1 mystery markets. “When we set up
in Boston, Newscasts in Atlanta, and so our Emmy® trades, we make sure we
on. sign up chapters who can provide
Initial secrecy is critical. ”In an judges for all of our English and Span-
effort to avoid any conflicts, we do not ish language entries.”
announce our trading partners or the Awarding an Emmy® statuette is
categories they are judging prior to our not like hanging a wreath around the
entries being judged,” notes Javier. So winner of a horse race. Judges are
even now, after our entries have instructed to grade entries purely
already been mailed across the country, against a standard of excellence,
Javier won’t reveal who has them. which is very different than ranking
There is one way you can sneak a them from best to worst. That’s why
peak, though, by helping judge other it’s not uncommon to have no winner
chapters’ entries. If you’re judging Javier Valencia, in a particular category. If the judges
Seattle’s work, you know some of our Awards Chair don’t feel any entry is “Emmy®-
entries went to Seattle, you just don’t know which worthy,” their grading will reflect that. We also can
categories. A complete list of which chapters have more than one winner in a given category.
provided judges will be included in the May 12th As the other chapters finish judging, the ballots
Emmy® Awards printed program. are sent by Fed Ex direct to our accounting firm of
When each market’s Awards Chair receives our Spalding and Company. Javier says, “We hope to
entries, it’s up to him or her to recruit panel leaders, have all the results back by March 23rd so the
who in turn recruit peers to judge each entry fairly Awards committee can review the results and make
within the NATAS rules and regulations. A minimum the final selection of nominees and recipients.”
of six television professionals must judge each entry, (We’ll go into the “blind ranking” process that
with no more than four of the six judges coming from determines the nominees and winners in April’s Off
a single TV station. That’s sometimes easier said Camera.) The nominations will then be announced
than done. Javier knows from experience. “It’s at events throughtout the chapter on Thursday,
getting harder to recruit judges as stations consoli- April 12th, and the Emmys® awards presented the
date and job responsibilities increase.” But he adds, night of Saturday, May 12th at the Palace of Fine
“While judging can be time consuming, it’s a great Arts in San Francisco.
opportunity to see the best work in your field from Good luck to all. Some of you are essentially
different parts of the country. It also provides some already winners— we just don’t know it yet.
great story ideas and gives you some tips for pre-
paring your future Emmy® entries.” That may be
one reason some of our chapter’s most frequent
winners are also our most reliable judges. Thursday, April 12, 2007
The people judging your work are a lot like you. Emmy® Award Nomination Parties
They are television professionals in comparable 6:30pm-8:30pm-Major chapter cities
markets who volunteer to be peer judges, meaning Saturday, May 12, 2007
they have experience and expertise in the 36th Annual Northern California Area
particular category they’re judging. While it’s en- Emmy ® Awards
couraged, judges are not required to be NATAS Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
members. We do put quite a bit of trust and faith in 4pm Reception; 5pm Awards Presentation
each chapter’s Awards Chair and the panel leaders 8pm Dinner & Dancing - The Exploratorium
he or she chooses, to make sure they are recruiting (Invitations mailed mid April)
only television professionals with a high level of
proficiency in their discipline, who have earned the
respect from their peers within their particular
station or market. That’s the type of person we ask
to help judge their work, and we expect no less.
The only significant change in the judging pro-
cess for our chapter this year is with Spanish lan-
guage entries. For the first time, they will all be
judged entirely by Spanish speaking peer judges, to
avoid the disadvantage of having English speaking
judges relying on a translation. But Javier says the JOB BANK at www.emmysf.tv
Spanish language entries were sent to the same
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 EMMY PREPARA
PREPARATIONS UNDER
ARATIONS UNDERW
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Mikaelian MacKenzie Heenan Sinkovitz Kohara Schechner Aguirre Beil Kim Mathai
By Keith Sanders, Emmy® Show Producer CBS 5, he served as a national
The 36th Northern California Area correspondent for NBC News Over-
Emmy® Awards Show will be held at night with Linda Ellerbee. Bill has
the Palace of Fine Arts in San Fran- won two San Francisco Emmy®
cisco. The date is Saturday, May Awards, a DuPont/ Columbia Univer-
12th. A baker’s dozen of presenters sity Award, the Edward R. Murrow
Lucero Lopez Vazquez
have been confirmed so far: Award, and the Charitas Award.
Gasia Mikaelian, a reporter for KTVU Channel Jessica Aguirre is the weekday co-anchor for
2. Prior to joining KTVU two years ago, she worked ABC7 News at 6. She joined ABC7 in July 1998.
as an Anchor/Reporter for KPRC-TV, the NBC affili- Aguirre moved to San Francisco from Los Angeles
ate in Houston, Texas. Her favorite part of the job where she was an anchor/reporter for KABC-TV. An
is reporting on breaking news and meeting new Emmy ® award winner, Aguirre is a member of the

people with exciting stories to tell. National Hispanic Journalists and is affiliated with the
Bob MacKenzie, a recently retired reporter Latin Business and Professional Women’s Organiza-
from KTVU Channel 2. He joined the station in 1978 tion.
as a feature reporter for “The Ten O’Clock News” Larry Beil currently anchors sports coverage for
and ultimately was instrumental in the development the weekday ABC7 News at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m., as
of the very popular Segment 2. MacKenzie is the well as ABC7 News at 9 p.m. on Your TV20. Before
recipient of 13 local Emmy® Awards, a National joining the ABC7 News Team, he worked as a
Headliners award and numerous other professional SportsCenter anchor at ESPN. From 1989-1995 he
honors. was a weekend sports anchor and sports reporter
Catherine Heenan, an anchor for KRON 4 News for KTVU in Oakland. Larry also worked as a sports
at 4 and a general assignment reporter. She came director at KGMB in Honolulu.
to KRON 4 in San Francisco from WTMJ-TV in Before joining NBC11, Lisa Kim was an anchor/
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she received numer- host at MSNBC. She anchored the morning and
ous awards for investigative and general assign- weekend news in San Diego. Kim is the recipient of a
ment reporting. She was most recently awarded Golden Mike award and an Emmy® award. She is a
Best On-Air Newscast Anchor by American Women member of the Asian American Journalists Associa-
in Radio & Television. tion as well as the Northern California National
Tom Sinkovitz recently left KRON in San Fran- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
cisco. He was co-anchor for the 9 O’clock News. Raj Mathai serves as sports director for NBC11.
His career began with the Armed Forces Vietnam He anchors the nightly sportscasts plus you can
Network in 1969. Since 1970, he has worked in catch him as a sideline reporter for NBC Sports.
WHP-TV in Harrisburg, Pa., WCPO-TV Cincinnati, Mathai has been honored by the Associated Press
WBAL-TV Baltimore and WXIA-TV Atlanta. He joined for Outstanding Sports Segment. He’s also been
KRON in January 1990 when the station was still an awarded regional Emmy ® statuettes for Outstanding

NBC affiliate. Sports Program. Raj reported on-location from the

Sydnie Kohara brings years of experience to Olympic Games in Torino, Athens and Salt Lake City.
her position as co-anchor of the CBS 5 Eyewitness Santiago Lucero is reporter at KUVS Univision
News Early Edition. She provided live coverage for 19 in Sacramento. Born in San Luis, Argentina, he
the ABC network as a worldwide audience got its graduated from Brigham Young University. He worked
first glimpse of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake as a reporter for KUTH in Utah. He also wrote ar-
devastation. Kohara and her newsroom colleagues ticles for the local newspaper “Hispanic World.” He
at KGO-TV shared the prestigious George Foster moved to KUVS in 2005
Peabody Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award Maribel Lopez is anchor for “A Primera Hora” at
for Excellence in Reporting. KUVS in Sacramento. Maribel was born in Long
Bill Schechner joined CBS 5 in 1992 for the Island, New York. She moved to Puerto Rico when
second time, after working at the station from 1976 she was young. She started her television career as
to 1981. Bill was the host of CBS 5’s This Morning a reporter for WORA Puerto Rico. She began work at
and Eyewitness News at Noon. Between stints at KUVS in 1999 as a reporter.
continued on page 9
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 6th HD SEMINAR SPOTLIGHTS LOCAL HD TV

Haman Swanson Reyes Welch Crayton Salyer

continued from page
As you fast forward to 2007 you’ll notice every-
thing has changed. HDTV prices have shrunk and
screen sizes have grown. High-definition movies on
cable and satellite are abundant. Many national
shows and all major sporting events can be seen in
HD. Both HD DVD and Blu Ray DVD players are
available. A majority of local broadcasters are going
through the transition to HD at all levels, including
acquisition, production and transmission.
The 6th Annual HD Seminar took place on January
31st. It featured a panel of Bay Area HD experts
including Jim Haman from KTVU, Jim Swanson
from KRON, Janice Reyes from KGO, Steve Welch
from KQED and Angela Crayton-Smith from KNTV.
They described how their respective TV stations
were rolling out HD. Kim Salyer from Video Arts
rounded out the field by talking about HD post-
production in feature films.
Meet the Panelists
KTVU in Oakland was the first TV station in the
San Francisco market to convert
its daily newscast to HD, on
October 10 last year. Panelist Jim
Haman coordinated the station
effort to migrate KTVU News to
HD. He beg50
an work there 20 years ago as
a producer/director. He now holds
the position of Director of Broad-
cast Operations and is the winner
of 7 Emmy® and 5 Telly awards.
Saturday, February 17th KGO in San Francisco
became the second station in the market to begin
broadcasting HD news, along with their 3pm live
lifestyle and entertainment show
The View from the Bay. The
programs are switched using a
new automated system called
Ignite HD. Panelist Janice Reyes
led a team of engineers who
developed Ignite HD along with
sister-station KABC in Los Ange-
les. Janice is the Vice President of
Engineering for KGO-TV/DT. She’s
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been working for ABC-owned TV stations for 21
years.
Last year panelist Jim Swanson served as
Executive Producer for more than 100 high-definition
shows at KRON in San Fran-
cisco. Thirty years ago
Swanson began his career
there. In 1983 he began work at
KPIX producing documentaries
and weekly shows. He then
returned to KRON in 1996 to
head up local production.
Swanson has won 15 Emmy®
awards in categories ranging
from Sports to History to Technical Achievement.
KQED in San Francisco will be the first TV station
in the market to migrate all
local programming to HD.
Panelist Steve Welch was
recently named Vice President,
Television Engineering & Opera-
tions for Northern California
Public Broadcasting (which
includes KQED, KTEH and
KCAH). He has successfully led
the operations and engineering
departments through KQED’s revolutionary transition
to digital technology. Welch received the PBS
Engineering Individual Achievement Award in 1995,
among other honors.
Panelist Angela Crayton-Smith is Director of
New Technology & Broadcast Engineering, NBC11
and Telemundo 48, San Jose and
San Francisco. In 1994 Angela
landed a job in Denver, Colorado,
as Producer Director for News and
Specials. By 2003 she’d moved to
NBC Network in New York. Angela
was soon promoted to Director of
On-Air Systems. In this role she
maintained all of NBC Network
Distribution as well as Northeast
HUB Operations. She led the team that built 3 HD
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 LOCAL S
OCAL TATIONS GO HD
ST
continued from page 4
Program Integration rooms for the 2006 Winter
Games. Recently she accepted a position at the
brand new all digital KNTV and KSTS facility in San
Jose.
Panelist Kim Salyer is the co-founder and
President of Video Arts, Inc., Northern California’s
leading independent High Defini-
tion post-production studio. Kim
co-founded Video Arts in 1976
as a two-person production
company. After 10 years Salyer
moved the company’s focus
from production to post-produc-
tion. In 1986 Video Arts opened
as one of the first all-compo-
nent video post houses and
computer graphics studio in the U.S. Video Arts has
provided color grading and finishing services for ten
films nominated for Academy Awards.
5 Stations…5 HD Solutions
Each television station made the transition to HD
its own way. On one end KQED spent $28 million over
three years to upgrade all shows to HD. The public
television station uses three HD production formats;
HDV, XDCam HD and HDCam. “Over the past several
months we have converted our entire production
capability to HD” said Steve Welch.
In contrast independent station KRON created
over 100 HD shows last year on a shoestring budget.
The KRON engineering team assembled five Dell
computers right out of the box, loaded Canopus Edius
NLE software, then added a lot of RAM, an HD video
card, and lots of high-capacity firewire drives to
make the HDV or DVC Pro HD edit stations. “It’s a
very low tech solution. My department survives
because we’re able to keep the costs down,” said
Jim Swanson, “as soon as costs get too much the
shows go away, it’s as simple as that.”
There was one similarity among the different HD
solutions. HD newscasts from KTVU and KGO both
use the automated Grass Valley system Ignite HD.
“After last year’s NAB there was a lot of attention
and focus paid to Ignite as a software, hardware and
automation system for newscasts” said KTVU’s Jim
Haman. The control room has a new HD GVG 4 M/E
Kayak switcher to manage all the video sources. An
HD GVG Concerto router manages the new HD graph-
ics, HD Weather and Traffic systems and HD studio
cameras.
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Ignite HD is also central to KGO’s newscast. “The
important part for engineering is that it links the
newsroom with the control room, which in television
has always been an issue,” said Janice Reyes. Ignite
HD features an integrated video switcher, audio mixer
and teleprompter that consolidates news production.
KGO’s system interacts with legacy Vinten Robotic
camera pedestals.
The KNTV all new digital facility was built with HD
in mind. However NBC is still determining the best
system to use. “NBC will not roll out HD until they
have completely studied the workflow” said Angela
Crayton-Smith. “Our photographers are going with
the Edius Pro and Canopus in the field, in preparation
for HD,” she added.
Video Arts was the only HD production company
represented on the panel. “We do corporate video,
big events, advertising, independent films and docu-
mentaries,” said Kim Salyer. “For us, HD is the holy
grail that we’ve been working towards all these
years” he mentioned. Video Arts has been doing HD
since 2003 and the company has recently moved into
a new 13,000 square foot facility.
The Snader Connection
The 6th Annual HD Seminar was housed in the
Snader Visual Solutions Expo for the second year
in a row. If you haven’t seen their event, think of a
mini-NAB located in the South San Francisco Conven-
tion Center. Over 90 companies were represented at
76 booths. The 2007 attendance broke 1,000 includ-
ing exhibitors and attendees. One of the most popular
activities was the “camera shootout” in the Camera
Corral. All seminars took place in front of standing
room only crowds (including our HD Seminar).
Snader & Associates kindly donated over $1,000
worth of food and drink for famished HD seminar
guests. Snader also included our event in their
printed ads. “It’s a win-win situation for both organi-
zations,” said Snader Event Coordinator Katie
Carney.
This year the use of HD at many local TV stations
is undergoing a major expansion. The South San
Francisco Convention Center is also undergoing a
major expansion of over 4,000 square feet. Next year
the 7th Annual HD Seminar should be even bigger
and better!
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OWNER IN HAWAII
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It took nearly two years, but KGMB-TV in Hawaii
now has a new owner, MCG Capital, based in
Virginia. The company is a relatively new player in
the Television industry. MCG Capital has interests in
communications, publishing, newspaper, cable and
broadcasting companies, which gives the corpora-
tion partial interests in five television stations in
Alabama, Texas, Wyoming and Nebraska. But MCG
Capital managing director Michael McHugh says,
“We don’t have any control-equity investments in
TV stations,” until now.
After KGMB went up for sale in May 2005, there
was industry talk about the possibility of relocating
the station and using its valuable property on
Kapiolani Blvd. to build a mixed-use high-rise on the
site. MCG won’t discuss its plans for the station. “I
can’t comment on our specific plans for the station,
except to say that we plan on returning the station
to number one in the market,” McHugh says.
The seller, Emmis Communications Corp., will
reward employees who stuck it out during the long
sales period with a one-time “success” bonus equal
to three months’ pay. They paid the same bonus to
employees who stayed at their other Hawaii station,
KHON, until its sale closed.
PENNA HONORED
The
Huntington’s
Disease Society
NorCal chapter
honored KOVR
CBS13 Health
Reporter Diana
Penna at the
Celebration of
Hope dinner on February 6th. HD Director Penny
Riley presented the award, also pictured KOVR
CBS13 weather anchor Dave Bender.
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ANO THER CHANGE ON
ANOTHER
GOOD DAY SSA
DA ACRA MENT
CRAMENT O
MENTO
Stefanie Cruz Taryn Winter Brill
Veteran news anchor Abbott Dutton has been let go
from Ch. 31 and Good Day Sacramento, after nine years
with KMAX. Dutton also co-hosted the 5 a.m. and 9 a.m.
segments of the five-hour morning program.
Station management announced Stefanie Cruz will
replace Dutton on the Good Day” news desk, and Ch 31
will hire a new co-host for the 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. hours.
Cruz has been the weekend anchor of Good Day.
Replacing Cruz on weekends is Taryn Winter Brill.
“We just want to go in a different direction with the
show,” says Brent Baader, Channel 31’s news director.
“We’re always looking to improve.”
Dutton’s dismissal comes two months after longtime
Good Day weather anchor Tom Loffman was replaced
by Cody Stark from sister station Channel 13.
KHON ANCHOR
TO PBS HAWAII
HAW
KHON news anchor Leslie
Wilcox has been selected
president and CEO of PBS
Hawaii to replace Mike
McCartney, who stepped
down last May to head the
state Democratic Party.
The selection of Wilcox
concluded a nationwide
search by the PBS Hawaii’s
board of directors.
“We’re delighted to have someone of Leslie’s
stature to play a significant role in our leadership
team,” board chairman Neil Hannahs said. “She is
known and respected throughout the community as
someone who cares greatly about our Islands and
holds compassion for the people of Hawaii.”
Wilcox leaves KHON on March 2.
“The mission of PBS Hawaii is magnetic, and I am
inspired by their mission and the strong and resource-
ful team already in place,” she said. “Together, we’ll
look for new opportunities for creative programs,
community service and civic engagement.”
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SILVER CLE PR
CIRCLE OFILE
PROFILE
MANNY RAMOS
By David Mills
Manny Ramos remem-
bers the incident well.
It was the mid-1970s.
He was a new reporter at a
Sacramento station, one of
that region’s first Latino on-air personalities. In a
serious tone, the news director told Manny his name
sounded “too ethnic.” He suggested Manny use
“Randy Ramos” instead. Manny refused, saying
“Manuel” was his father’s name.
That was the less-than-auspicious beginning of
what has turned out to be a distinguished television
news career for Manny Ramos. It’s a path that
eventually led him to KPIX-TV, where he has been an
on-air institutition the past quarter-century.
Manny’s solid reporting skills have earned him four
Emmy® awards. His skills, likability and community
activism gave him a spot in the Silver Circle, when he
was elected to that exclusive club in 2000.
It’s been a long journey from the town of Salinas,
where Manny grew up. His mother stayed at home
while his father toiled as a gardener and farmworker.
Manny got an early taste of what life would be like
without an education. Whenever he or his siblings
misbehaved or received poor grades, their father
took them into the fields to work. It was a lesson
learned early and well.
Manny got his first inkling he wanted to be a
reporter in grade school. “I always wanted to know
what was going on,” he recalled. “And I wanted to be
the one to tell everybody.” However, Manny was
Hispanic, so he was put on a non-college “track.” He
remembers teachers who helped him complete the
classes and get the grades he needed to get into
San Jose State.
He graduated from there in 1974, just when
television stations were under pressure to put people
AND THE A WARD
AW
GOES TO...
TO
CBS 5’s (KPIX, San Francisco) Investigative Unit
has won the Bill Stout Award for Enterprise News by
the Associated Press Television and Radio Associa-
tion of California, Nevada and Hawaii (APTRA).
The winning entry was titled “The Unabomber
Evidence Revealed.” I Team members Anna
Werner, Alexander Gurevich, Gerard Watson,
and Greg Marasso will receive their award during a
ceremony in Hollywood on March 3. ”Investigative
Off Camera, March 2007, page 7
Class of 2000
of different ethnicities
on the air. Manny
was hired first by
KOVR in Sacramento.
He joined KRON in San
Francisco in 1979.
The next year, he was hired at KPIX, where he has
been the past 27 years. He has covered virtually
every beat and worked just about every shift at the
CBS station.
Manny is on the board of directors of Latinos in
Communications and is a member of the National
Association of Hispanic Journalists. The veteran
reporter is active in raising money for college scholar-
ships and speaks frequently to students.
Manny lives in Marin County with his wife, Robin.
He has three children and three grandchildren.
Manny credits his success to his parents, “the two
smartest people I ever met,” who taught him right
from wrong. “I think of them all the time,” he says.
As for journalists just getting into the business,
Manny has some advice. “Never let anyone discour-
age you,” he says. “One of the first news directors
to see my audition tape out of college told me, ‘I just
don’t think you have any future in front of a cam-
era.’ 32 years later, I’m still in front of one.
SAVE THE DATE!
NATAS Gold & Silver Circle 2007 Induction Luncheon
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Holiday Inn Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco
NOMINATIONS DEADLINE: Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Nomination applications are available at
www.emmysf.tv Click on Silver Circle or Gold Circle, or
contact the TV Academy office at circles@emmysf.tv
or call 650-341-7786.
journalists look beneath the surface to find impor-
tant stories that have been overlooked or hidden.
Our I-team’s stories on the Unabomber did just that,
and it’s very gratifying to have that work recognized
with this prestigious award,” says Dan Rosenheim,
Vice President and News Director for CBS 5.
 By Terri Maria Amos
In the pursuit of excellence….right in the middle
of the Emmy® season…what exactly does that
mean? As members of this Academy, we are com-
mitted not only to recognize outstanding achieve-
ment in the television industry with an Emmy®
Award, but also to advance the arts and sciences of
television and foster creative leadership within our
individual areas of expertise. Mentoring goes hand
in hand with this vision.
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President Lynn Friedman wants you to Mentor!
Do you remember your first person …the first
person to take an interest in you? The person who
let you take ‘em out for a cup of coffee so you
could ask your questions? There was a one-on-one
connection. Each one of us can name that special
person who took an interest when we first started
out, someone “who showed us the ropes.” Our
professional careers were impacted by the time and
interest that special person paid to us.
This is a great opportunity for you to become
that special person to someone else!
I know what you’re thinking… ‘I’m already so
busy, I don’t have the time.’ However, signing up to
be a mentor is not a huge time commitment. It is
simply the formal process connecting two profes-
sionals for the informal one-on-one connection.
Mentoring is a great way to broaden the
community of professionals that strive for excellence
and impact on the next generation of television
professionals.
For more information on becoming a Mentor (or
requesting a Mentor), please send an e-mail
mentor@emmysf.tv. Terri Maria Amos is the Mentor
Match contact.
Off Camera, March 2007, page 8
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By Alison Gibson
The San Francisco/Northern California Chapter of
will award five $3,000 collegiate student scholarships
this year. The Peter J. Marino Television Produc-
tion Scholarship; the Abrazos & Books, Rigo
Chacon Reporting Scholarship; the Sheldon
“Shelly” Fay Videography; the Thomas F.
Drayton Minority Scholarship; and new this year, the
Board of Governors’ Advanced Media Scholarship.
The Chapter awards these scholarships to encour-
age individuals who demonstrate leadership and talent
in advancing the artistic, cultural, educational, and
technical qualities of television.
Scholarship applicants
• must be actively engaged in a collegiate-level
curriculum in one or more areas of the television
industry and be attending a college within the
Chapter area — Northern California (Visalia to
the Oregon border), Hawaii, and Reno, Nevada.
• have completed at least one undergraduate
academic year of television studies, or be
enrolled in a television graduate program.
• have at least one remaining year of under-
graduate or graduate study.
Entrants may receive only one scholarship per
year. Scholarship recipients are not eligible for a
second scholarship in the year following their award.
Complete rules and applications are available on
the chapter website at www.emmysf.tv Com-
pleted applications must be postmarked by
Monday, April 2, 2007. The Committee then screens
the applications, reviews the DVDs and essays to
select the recipients.
The five successful applicants will receive their
scholarships at the San Francisco/ Northern California
annual Emmy® Awards Ceremony on Saturday
evening, May 12, 2007.
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IN MEM OR
MEMOR Y
ORY
DICK RILEY
Richard C.H. (Dick Riley) Smith Sept. 23, 1926
- Feb. 13, 2007. Born in Los Angeles, grew up in
Tulare, attended Pomona College in 1943 and got
drafted in 1945, returned to graduate from UCLA.
After receiving his English degree, Dick got a job
at a radio station in Modesto! Before the year was
out, he (cornet/trumpet player) and a Pomona
classmate (clarinet) took off across country to visit
New Orleans, mecca for those who played Dixieland
jazz. One night, while listening to a favorite band in
a bar on Bourbon St., he got a phone call from a
colleague in New York, saying they had a chance to
play on a TV show. That gig turned into five years in
NYC - playing with Conrad Janis and his Tailgate
Band, working for CBS, winning the Arthur Godfrey
Talent Scouts with their band, getting married,
having a daughter, and getting a phone call from
Turk Murphy, who needed a trumpet player for his
San Francisco band. As Dick never learned to read
music, life with Turk was brief. He then played with
Kid Ory and finally hung up his horn in 1960 to work
in radio.
This was followed by a career in TV news as a
writer-producer, first at KRON, where he initiated the
first hour-long newscast in the Bay Area, and then
at KGO, where he wrote and produced for news
anchor Van Amburg. He retired in 1989 to focus on
his love for cooking and traveling. He leaves Judy,
daughter, Hilary, son-in-law, Peter, and two grand-
children.
EMMY PREP ®
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Sayra Vazquez anchors the 6pm and 11pm
news Monday thru Friday at KFTV in Fresno. Sayra
arrived in the United States at age 13, settling down
in Truckee, Nevada. Later she attended the Univer-
sity of Nevada in Reno. In 1996 she began working
for Channel 68, a Univision affiliate. She was hired
by KUVS in 2000 as an anchor and reporter, before
moving to KFTV.
Eventually nine pairs of presenters will hand out
Emmy® awards in as many as 63 categories. There
was a record 948 entries submitted this year, well
over 100 more than last year. This could mean that
more Emmy® awards will be given away. Significant
steps are being taken to keep the show time down,
since it will be followed by a dinner and after party
at the Exploratorium next door.
“The planning and preparation for 2007’s After
Party is in full swing!” said Executive Producer Terri
Maria Amos. She added that “Hatfield & Walker is
our lighting and design team, the band will be pro-
vided by Associated Entertainment, and Knights
Catering will serve us appetizers and dinner.”
Formal invitations will be mailed to all SF/NorCal
NATAS members and entrants in April.
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THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS
OFFICERS:
Lynn R Friedman, ABC 7, President
Javier Valencia, KRON 4, VP, SF (Awards)
Thomas Drayton, Fox 40, VP, Sacramento
Nancy Osborne, ABC 30, VP, Fresno
Terri Russell, KOLO 8, VP, Reno
Duncan Armstrong, NBC 8, VP, Hawaii
SAN FRANCISCO
Tamar Sarkissian, Freelance, VP, Sm. Mkts. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Keith Sanders, SJ State University, Secretary 4317 Camden Avenue
Sharon Navratil, KTVU 2, Treasurer San Mateo, CA 94403
David Mills, CBS 5, Past President (Alt. Trustee)
NATIONAL TRUSTEES:
Linda Giannecchini, KQED 9 (Museum) Kym McNicholas, KFTY 50
Alison Gibson, Media Cool (Education) Deanne Moenster-Poitras, KTVU 2
Cynthia Zeiden, Zeiden Media (Activities) Jeanette Pavini, CBS 5
GOVERNORS: Wayne Philippo, CBS 5
Dan Adams, KXTV 10 Sheraz Sadiq, KQED 9
Terri Maria Amos, Independent Tamar Sarkissian, Freelance
Brian Avery, Avery Media (Membership) Gary Schultz, ABC 7
Samuel Belilty, Univision 21 Annika Wood, Independent
John Burgess, KFTY 50 Pamela Young, KITV 4
Joe Cherubini, KRON 4 COMMITTEE CHAIRS:
Martin Christian, KVIE 6 John Catchings, Catchings & Assoc.(Museum)
Christopher Conybeare, Univ. of Hawaii Darryl Cohen, Cohen & Cooper (Legal)
Janice Edwards, NBC 11 David Perry, David Perry & Assoc. (Marketing)
Wayne Freedman, ABC 7 James Spalding, Spalding & Co. (Finance)
Albert Garcia, Univision 19 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
Bob Goldberger, ABC 7 Darryl R. Compton, NATAS
Justin Kanno, KOLO 8 Off Camera
Ronald Louie, KTVU 2 Bob Goldberger, Editor
Terry Lowry, LaCosse Productions Darryl R. Compton, Publisher
Danny McGuire, Spirit Productions
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