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41st Annual RULES and PROCEDURES ELIGIBILITY PERIOD: Calendar Year 2019 EARLY ENTRY DEADLINE (REDUCED ENTRY FEE): March 12, 2020 NEW FINAL ENTRY DEADLINE: April 23, 2020 Due to the COVID-19 emergency, NATAS has extended the submission deadline for the New & Documentary Emmy® Awards SUBMISSION WEBSITE newsdocemmys.tv David Winn Senior Vice President, News & Documentary Emmy® Awards 212-484-9424 dwinn@theemmys.tv Christine Chin Director, News & Documentary Emmy® Awards 212-484-9452 cchin@theemmys.tv For technical assistance with submissions contact Yangaroo 1-866-992-9902 emmysupport@yangaroo.com 450 Park Ave. South, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10016 Main #: 212-586-8424 / Fax: 212-246-8129 / Web: www.theemmys.tv EMMY® AWARDS CONTEST RULES NATAS MISSION STATEMENT The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) is a 501(c)6 non-profit service organization founded by the Committee of One Hundred, led by Ed Sullivan, in 1955. NATAS is dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creative leadership for artistic, educational and technical achievements within the television industry. It recognizes excellence in television with the coveted Emmy® Award. NATAS AWARDS COMMITTEE The NATAS Awards Committee is the governing body of all NATAS Emmy Awards (the Daytime Emmy® Awards, the News & Documentary Emmy® Awards, the Sports Emmy® Awards, the Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards, individual Regional Emmy® Awards). All Awards Committee decisions are official and binding. NATAS ADMINISTRATION NATAS administers three contests, the Daytime Emmy Awards, the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, and the Sports Emmy Awards, each having their own dedicated administrative teams. To reach out to the respective administrative teams regarding questions about rules, eligibility, or judging for their individual contests: Daytime Emmy Awards - daytime@theemmys.tv News & Documentary Emmy Awards - news@theemmys.tv Sports Emmy Awards - sports@theemmys.tv Please note that technical questions regarding uploading submissions, encoding, device compatibility, etc. should be directed to: emmysupport@yangaroo.com or 866-992-9902. NATAS does not administer the International Emmy® Awards or Primetime Emmy® Awards contests. To contact these Academies directly: IATAS - https://www.iemmys.tv/international-academy/contact-us/ Primetime - https://www.emmys.com/content/contact-us Regional Emmy Awards are individually administered by NATAS Chapters: 1 http://theemmys.tv/chapters-directory FORMAT OF THESE RULES Thank you for your interest in NATAS National Emmy Award competitions. This NATAS Rule Book outlines rules that apply across the breadth of its three National Emmy competitions. Following that is the Call for Entries for the individual contest you are interested in entering. The CFEs outline additional rules specific to that individual contest. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS NATAS EMMYS RULES Entering NATAS Contests ............................................................................................................... 4-7 Entry Procedures ........................................................................................................................... 8-9 Payment Procedures....................................................................................................................... 10 Yangaroo – How to Use It ............................................................................................................... 11 Judging NATAS Contests ............................................................................................................ 12-13 The Emmy Award ....................................................................................................................... 14-15 Glossary of Terms ...................................................................................................................... 16-20 NEWS & DOCUMENTARY EMMY AWARDS RULES About the News and Documentary Emmy® Awards ........................................................................ 21 Dates & Deadlines ............................................................................................................................ 22 Entry Fees & Payment ...................................................................................................................... 22 What’s New ................................................................................................................................. 23-24 Entering the News & Doc Emmy Awards ..................................................................................... 25-26 Emmy Essay ...................................................................................................................................... 26 Series Entries .................................................................................................................................... 27 Media Specs ................................................................................................................................. 27-30 Submission Checklist ........................................................................................................................ 30 Prohibitions and Disqualifications .................................................................................................... 31 Who Receives the Award? ................................................................................................................ 32 Judging for the News & Documentary Emmy Awards ................................................................. 33-34 Nominations and Ceremonies .......................................................................................................... 35 Award Categories ........................................................................................................................ 36-37 Award Category Definitions and Submission Requirements ............................................................ 38 3 ENTERING NATAS CONTESTS WHO CAN ENTER? Anyone can enter! NATAS/Television Academy membership is not required. Producers, designated awards consultants, show contacts or individual entrant team members may submit entries on behalf of their program, on-air talent, or craft. If entering multiple categories, NATAS recommends that shows designate a main contact or “Show Shepherd” to handle submissions and general communication with the contest administration during the contest period. Anyone entering on behalf of an individual or entity must fully confirm that the parties contained in the submission have complete knowledge of all eligibility rules and have viewed and given consent to the content submitted on their behalf. ELIGIBILITY PERIOD Programs in the calendar year (January 1-December 31, 2019) are eligible for submission, with the following exception: Sports Emmy Awards - high school, college and professional football postseason programming that originally aired in 2020 (concluding three days after the Super Bowl) is eligible for entry in all categories other than Short Sports Documentary, Long Sports Documentary and Serialized Sports Documentary. Football programming must have aired after February 6, 2019 and prior to February 6, 2020. CONTENT ELIGIBILITY NATAS contests are open to both telecast and online/digital programming. Entries must have been transmitted to the public by a television network, a cable company, satellite, the internet, or other digital delivery media. Eligibility is limited to digital and telecast programming that was originally made available during the eligibility period. All shows must contain at least 2/3 original material as aired during the eligibility period, unless the previously produced material has been given substantial, unique and creative treatment that, in the opinion of NATAS, results in an original program. 50% RULE Entries for national contests must have been generally available for viewing by at least 50% of U.S. television households during the eligibility period. For programs not previously approved for eligibility by NATAS, entrants must submit coverage data demonstrating availability to at least 50% of U.S. TV households. Programs made available online that are intended for a national audience are generally considered to have met the 50% threshold. Online programs intended for a regional audience should submit to one of the regional Emmy competitions. Programs that have been made available to less than 50% of a national audience, or to a particular geographic market, are eligible for regional Emmy competitions. CATEGORY AND/OR CONTEST SHOPPING Once a program enters a specific genre category, it is forbidden from switching for the remainder of its run unless it petitions contest administration to change categories, and the petition is accepted. Once a program enters a specific Emmy Award contest (inclusive of the Primetime Emmy Awards, which are administered by NATAS’s sister organization, the Television Academy), it is bound to remain in that contest unless a petition is filed and accepted by contest administration. If a program switches contests, it cannot switch back without approval from administration. 4 CATEGORY PLACEMENT NATAS reserves the right to disqualify outright or move any entry to a different entry category if in its judgment such action is warranted. Entrants will be notified when a rejection or category reassignment is made. Entries will not be accepted if no applicable category is found. U.S.-INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTIONS U.S.-International