NJN Recognized with Two NY Emmy Awards

STATEWIDE – The New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NY NATAS) presented both NJN’s Classroom Close-up, NJ, and Due Process with an Emmy. The winners of the 49th Emmy Awards were announced on Sunday, March 12, 2006, at The Marriott Marquis’ Broadway Ballroom in New York City. Founded in 1955, NY NATAS fosters creativity and inspires excellence through the renowned Emmy Award, the most prestigious honor and most coveted peer-recognition symbol of distinction in television. The awards will be broadcast on NYC TV, channel 25 on Monday, March 20, at 8 pm.

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING: Classroom Close-up, NJ Wanda Swanson, executive producer; John Barra, Kate Megargee, Kevin Ronan, segment producers; Richard Renner, series producer

CRIME PROGRAMMING: Due Process Sandra King, senior producer; Henrietta Parker, coordinating producer; Jeff Friedman, executive producer

Classroom Close-up, NJ is an original weekly program that features students, teachers and community members who develop and participate in creative and successful school programs. Classroom Close-up, NJ airs Mondays at 6:30 pm and Saturdays at 7 am. Due Process is NJN’s award-winning weekly series on law and justice issues. Launched in 1996, the program has covered everything from criminal and civil law to consumer and civil liberties law. Due Process airs Sundays at 9:30 am and 6:30 pm, and Tuesdays at 11:30 pm. Both programs are web cast at njn.net and can be seen on NJN’s JerseyVision and Time Warner Cable on channel 750 in New York.

“It is a great honor for each Emmy Award winner and for NJN to be recognized for excellence by our peers in broadcasting, and it inspires all of us to continue doing our best work,” says Elizabeth Christopherson, executive director, NJN Public Television & Radio.