August 31, 2009
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WGBH wins five Daytime Emmy Awards
WGBH was honored with five awards at the 36th Annual Creative Arts & Entertainment Daytime Emmy® Awards grand gala in the California Ballroom of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. PBS was the biggest winner, taking home a total of 16 awards, including Outstanding Lifestyle Program for the PBS home improvement series This Old House. A Lifetime Achievement Award went to Sesame Street for 40 years of educating and entertaining children.
The honor for Outstanding Pre-School Children’s Series went to WGBH’s popular children’s program Between the Lions. The show also won an award for Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series. Between the Lions is a multimedia educational initiative created to help children ages three to seven acquire beginning reading skills and a love of reading.
WGBH’s From the Top at Carnegie Hall was honored with awards for Outstanding Children’s Program and Outstanding Multi-Camera Editing. Based on the popular NPR program and hosted by acclaimed pianist Christopher O’Riley, the series takes viewers backstage with today’s rising young classical musicians and captures the excitement of their Carnegie Hall debuts.
The award for Outstanding Single-Camera Editing went to WGBH’s Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie. The food, travel, and culture series takes viewers on a “food first” international adventure with each episode telling an intimate culinary tale through the eyes of foodies from around the world.
Following is a list of WGBH’s Emmy wins with credits:
Outstanding Pre-School Children’s Series
Between the Lions
Brigid Sullivan, Executive Producer
Norman Stiles, Executive Producer
Judith Stoia, Executive Producer
Christopher Cerf, Executive Producer
Beth Kirsch, Series Producer
Diane Hartman, Coordinating Producer
Chris Cardillo, Coordinating Producer
Bill Berner, Coordinating Producer
Rick Klein, Coordinating Producer
Philippa Hall, Coordinating Producer
Scott Colwell, Producer
Carol Klein, Producer
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Outstanding Writing in a Children’s Series
Between the Lions
Norman Stiles, Head Writer
Keri Horn, Writer
Louise Gikow, Writer
Brian Meehl, Writer
Jennifer Hamburg, Writer
Ray Messecar, Writer
Sarah Durkee, Writer
Luis Santeiro, Writer
Fred Newman, Writer
Christopher Cerf, Writer
Beth Kirsch, Writer
Judith Stoia, Writer
Outstanding Children’s Series
From the Top at Carnegie Hall
Don Mischer, Executive Producer
Laurie Donnelly, Executive Producer
Gerald Slavet, Executive Producer
Jennifer Hurley-Wales, Executive Producer
Gary Halvorson, Producer
Juliane Hare, Producer
Tim Banker, Producer
Anne Adams, Senior Producer
Mark Leed, Line Producer
Outstanding Achievement in Multiple Camera Editing
From the Top at Carnegie Hall
Kevin Bourque, Supervising Editor
Outstanding Achievement in Single Camera Editing
Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie
Rob Tate, Editor
Laura Deney, Editor
Mustafa Bhagat, Editor
About WGBH
WGBH Boston is America’s preeminent public broadcaster, producing such celebrated national PBS series as Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow, Frontline, Nova, American Experience, Arthur, Curious George and more than a dozen other award-winning primetime, lifestyle and children’s series. Boston’s last remaining independent TV station, WGBH produces local TV productions (among them, Greater Boston, Basic Black and María Hinojosa: One-on-One) that focus on the region’s diverse community, while WGBH 89.7 FM is Boston’s NPR Arts & Culture station, offering a rich menu of classical, jazz, blues, news programming and more. WGBH is the leading producer of online content for pbs.org—one of the most-visited dot-org sites on the Internet—a major producer for public radio and a pioneer in developing educational multimedia and new technologies that make media accessible for people with disabilities. For its efforts, WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors, including Oscars, Emmys, Peabodys and duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards. Visit WGBH on the Web at
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