Gourmet’s Dairy of a Foodie,
This Old House,
Landscapes Through Time and
Equitrekking win 2009 Emmy awards.
BOSTON (Sept. 1, 2009) – Create TV, the dynamic lifestyle channel featuring public television’s most popular how-to shows, announces five of its best-known programs have been recognized by the television industry at the 2009 Daytime Emmy Creative Arts Awards. The awards were presented Aug. 30 at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.
The long-running cooking show favorite
Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie, featuring
Gourmet magazine editor Ruth Reichl, won an Emmy for “Outstanding Achievement in Single Camera Editing.” The series, along with
Simply Ming, was also nominated for “Outstanding Culinary Program.” Both programs are distributed nationally by American Public Television.
The unique travel series
Equitrekking, featuring host Darley Newman’s horseback expeditions across the world, won for “Outstanding Achievement in Single Camera Photography.”
Equitrekking is also distributed nationally by American Public Television.
Popular home improvement series
This Old House, a longtime public television staple and a fixture on Create TV as well, won an Emmy for “Outstanding Lifestyle Program.” The series is distributed nationally by PBS.
Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop, an art series focusing on the places that inspired many iconic paintings, won an Emmy for “Outstanding Special Class Writing.” The series is distributed by PBS.
More than 220 public television stations – representing 82% of U.S. TV households – carry Create TV nationwide. Create is produced and distributed by APT, WNET.org, and WGBH Boston in association with NETA and PBS.
Viewers can watch Create TV via digital broadcast and/or basic digital cable. Visit www.CreateTV.com for more information, TV schedules, program descriptions, recipes, news, shopping, tips, DIY instructions and more.
About Create™:
Create™ is the dynamic TV channel that spotlights many of television's most popular how-to, cooking, arts and crafts and travel series. Create is produced and distributed by APT, Thirteen/WNET and WGBH Boston in association with National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) and PBS.
About the Entities That Make Create TV Possible:
American Public Television:
American Public Television (APT) has been a leading distributor of high-quality, top-rated programming to America’s public television stations since 1961. Among its 300 new program titles per year are prominent documentaries, dramatic series, how-to programs, children’s series and classic movies, including
Spain... on the road Again,
Rick Steves' Europe,
Worldfocus,
Globe Trekker,
Simply Ming,
America's Test Kitchen From Cook’s Illustrated,
Lidia's Family Table,
P. Allen Smith's Garden Home,
Murdoch Mysteries,
Doc Martin,
Rosemary and Thyme,
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison,
Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti and
John Denver: The Wildlife Concert. APT also distributes to international channels through its APT Worldwide service. In 2006, APT launched Create™ – the TV channel featuring the best of public television's lifestyle programming. For more information about APT’s programs and services, visit APTonline.org.
WNET.ORG
New York public media company WNET.ORG is a pioneering provider of television and web content. The parent of Thirteen, WLIW21 and Creative News Group, WNET.ORG brings such acclaimed broadcast series and websites as
Worldfocus,
Nature,
Great Performances,
American Masters,
Charlie Rose,
Wide Angle,
Secrets of the Dead,
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly,
Visions,
Consuelo Mack WealthTrack,
Wild Chronicles,
Miffy and Friends, and
Cyberchase to national and international audiences. Through its wide range of channels and platforms, WNET.ORG serves the entire New York City metro area with unique local productions, broadcasts and innovative educational and cultural projects. In all that it does, WNET.ORG pursues a single, overarching goal – to create media experiences of lasting significance for New York, America and the world. For more information, visit www.wnet.org.
WGBH Boston:
WGBH Boston is America's preeminent public broadcasting producer, the source of one-third of PBS's prime-time lineup, along with some of public television's best-known lifestyle shows and children's programs and many public radio favorites. WGBH is the number one producer of Web sites on pbs.org, the most-visited dot-org on the Internet. WGBH is a pioneer in educational multimedia and in technologies and services that make media accessible to the 36 million Americans who rely on captioning or video descriptions. WGBH has been recognized with hundreds of honors: Emmys, Peabodys, duPont-Columbia Awards…even two Oscars. In 2002, WGBH was honored with a special institutional Peabody Award for 50 years of excellence. For more information, visit www.wgbh.org.
National Educational Telecommunications Association:
The National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) is a professional association that serves public television licensees and educational entities in all 50 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. NETA serves by connecting people and ideas, by providing quality programming, educational resources, professional development, management support and national representation. For more information, visit www.NETAonline.org.
Public Broadcasting Service:
PBS is a media enterprise that serves 355 public noncommercial television stations and reaches nearly 73 million people each week through on-air and online content. Bringing diverse viewpoints to television and the Internet, PBS provides high-quality documentary and dramatic entertainment, and consistently dominates the most prestigious award competitions. More information about PBS is available at www.pbs.org, one of the leading dot-org Web sites on the Internet.
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