AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

PGA gets first crack at Emmy credits - Variety
ATAS, PGA to collaborate on deciding eligibility
The Academy of TV Arts and Sciences has formally pacted with the Producers Guild of America to help determine Emmy eligibility.
As expected, the TV Acad’s board of governors addressed the issue at its regular meeting Wednesday night (Daily Variety, Jan. [...]

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Arbitration Blocks New Broadband Emmy Awards From NATAS - Digital Media Wire
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS, or “Television Academy”) announced on Tuesday that it has prevailed in an arbitration with the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), which will now no longer be able to hold a Broadband Emmys event [...]

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Studios seeing the dollars and sense in preservation - Hollywood Reporter
Many indie films still gathering dust
Much is made of the need to preserve old films for art’s sake. Funds are raised, grants given out to ensure that even cinematic historical footnotes like the 1945 Fox melodrama “Leave Her to Heaven” are given as much care [...]

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AMPAS: Archive before it’s too late - The Hollywood Reporter
How many of you have favorite movies or music on 8-track, VHS or Betamax tapes but no longer have a player for these formats? How many of the VHS tapes that contain precious family memories still will be accessible after another 20 or 30 years? How [...]

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