THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK EMMY AWARD NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED THIS MORNING

WNBC-TV Gets the Most Nods With 35

New York Emmy Awards to Take Place on April 3, 2005

(New York, NY -- February 25, 2005) The 48th Annual New York Emmy Award nominations took place this morning at the CUNY Graduate Center. Co-hosting the ceremony were Diana Williams, the award winning anchor of WABC-TV Channel 7 Eyewitness News at 5 and Eyewitness News Up Close, and the former 1st Vice President of the NY NATAS; Six time Emmy-Award winning journalist Marvin Scott, Senior Correspondent, Host and Co-Anchor of WB 11 News Weekend Edition; Emmy-Award winning Correspondent Jane Hanson, Anchor of Jane’s New York; and Shelly Palmer, President, Palmer Advanced Media and 1st Vice President of the NY NATAS.

WNBC-TV received the most nominations with 35. Following WNBC-TV are:

WCBS-TV – 30 WIVB-TV Buffalo - 3 YES Network – 24 WXXI-TV Rochester – 3 News 12 Long Island – 19 YES Network/WCBS-TV – 3 WPIX-TV – 19 NJN Public Television – 3 Thirteen/WNET – 18 WKBW-TV Buffalo – 2 MSG Network – 15 WSKG-TV Binghamton – 2 WNYW Fox 5 – 15 Capital News 9 – (TW Cable Albany) - 1 News 12 New Jersey – 13 Channel 600 on IO – 1 NYC TV – 13 CUNY-TV – 1 WWOR-TV – 12 FSN New York – 1 WABC-TV – 9 MTV, UPN – 1 WNJU – 5 News 12 The Bronx – 1 WXTV – 5 WLIW-TV – 1 Metro TV – 4 WNED-TV Buffalo – 1 National Cable, Spot TV – 3 WNYE / American Public Television – 1 News 12 Westchester – 3 WROC-TV Rochester – 1 WGRZ-TV Buffalo – 3 YES Network/WLNY – 1

The 48th Annual New York Emmys will be awarded at a special black tie event on Sunday, April 3, 2005 at The Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

The full list of nominees follows:

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, founded in 1946, is a non-profit organization that fosters creative excellence in the television industry. NATAS inspires excellence through the renowned EMMY Award, the most prestigious honor and most coveted peer-recognition symbol of distinction in television.

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