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| Steve Edwards accepts the Emmy award from Mickey and Jan Rooney for "Regularly Scheduled Daily News: Daytime Newscast." |
Fox Sports Net and KCAL9 shared top honors with eleven statuettes each at the Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards on Saturday night, as sports and news programs shared the spotlight.
Good Day LA was named outstanding regular daytime newscast, picking up one of four Emmys for Fox 11. The Emmy for a regularly scheduled half-hour news show went to Channel 4 News at 11PM, and KCAL9 News at Ten won the award for regular newscasts over 35 minutes long.
A group of colleagues from several local stations took the stage to hand the Governors Award to Dr. George Fischbeck, known as much for his humanitarian work on behalf of several charities as well as for decades of weather-reporting expertise on KABC.
"The government sends its best weathermen to California," he quipped, "to teach them humility."
"This is wonderful," Fischbeck said, holding his golden statuette high. "I thought it was going to be a plaque."
Mickey Rooney paid tribute to the late Bob Hope, a TV Hall of Famer and the world’s most honored comedian, who died earlier this year at age 100.
"Bob was living proof that you could be funny without malice," Rooney told the audience at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre. "He was also the first Hollywood celebrity to appear on television — Los Angeles television."
That was on January 22, 1947, when Hope introduced the first regularly scheduled broadcast in new medium, with quips like this one: "If my face isn’t handsome and debonair, blame it on the static." A clip package featured shots of Hope during TV’s infancy.
Stu Lantz, longtime L.A. Lakers broadcast partner of the late Chick Hearn, paid tribute to the record-setting Basketball Hall of Fame sportscaster, who was one of last year’s Governors’ Award winners. Hearn was the only sportscaster to broadcast 3,338 consecutive games.
"I think that speaks for itself," Lantz said. "That’s the kind of example I think all of us should try to follow. If you’re doing a job, do it, no excuses, just get the job done. And that’s what Chick did each and every game, each and every night."
Laker center Shaquille O’Neal, via tape, accepted a producing Emmy for outstanding sports tease. The juried award allows for multiple winners, and O’Neal FSN team was one of five so honored in that category.
NBC4 was number three on the cumulative list with eight awards, and CBS2 took five. Smaller outlets were also represented. They included GTV6 and KOCE with two each and Hawthorne Community TV and LA Cityview35 with one apiece.
Presenters for the 55th annual gala, hosted by John O’Hurley, included Teri Garr, Florence Henderson, Della Reese, Alan Thicke and Bryan Cranston. Hal Eisner, one of the Academy’s two LA Area governors, was executive producer. Mitch Waldow is Eisner’s colleague as governor.
Two prominent Academy members received Emmys of their own: Governor Suzan Jorgensen-Torgerson, field producer for Countdown to the Latin Grammy Awards on CBS2; and Nelson Davis, a longtime Academy activist, who accepted the award as executive producer of Making It! Minority Success Stories on KTLA.
A complete list of winners
Press release (PDF Format)
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